The prequalifiers are Hyundai Engineering & Construction, Daelim Engineering & Construction, SK Engineering & Constructionand LG Engineering & Construction, all of South Korea, Paris-based Technip, Foster Wheelerof the US, JGC Corporationand Chiyoda Corporation, both of Japan, Italy's Snamprogettiand the UK's Costain.

The project calls for the construction of an ERU plant designed to handle 1,140 million cubic feet a day of gas and will extract ethane from lean gas of the liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) unit at Mina al-Ahmadi. Shell Technology, part of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group, has been awarded the technology licensing package for the main unit. Fluor Danielhas completed the front-end engineering and design (FEED) studies (MEED 30:1:04).