Kuwait’s Mushrif Trading & Contracting Company has submitted the lowest bid for a deal to replace pipelines and provide production support in the Divided Zone between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.

Mushrif submitted a bid of KD11.4m ($40.5m), which was the lowest acceptable price for the client, Wafra Joint Operations, according to a source close to the project.

Bids were submitted for the three-year contract on 30 September. Some 14 companies attended a pre-tender meeting.

Wafra Joint Operations is a joint venture of Saudi Arabian Chevron, a subsidiary of the US oil firm, Chevron and state-owned Kuwait Gulf Oil Company (KGOC).

This is the second low bid from the firm in November. On 11 November, Mushrif submitted the lowest price for a deal to build fourteen high pressure flares at fourteen of Kuwait’s crude oil gathering centres across the south and east of the country, in a deal worth almost $50m. It also includes the installation of a 4.5-kilometre-long 30-inch pipeline, as well as civil and structural works.

The company was also approved for a $103m deal from the Ministry of Public Works in October for the construction and maintenance of roads and intersections serving Jaber al-Ahmed City.