Bahrain has received three bids from companies vying to build a new gas plant in the kingdom.

According to the country’s national tender board, Bahrain National Gas Company (Banagas) received bids from:

• Netherlands-based CB&I,
• Japan’s JGC Corporation and
• French group Technip

All three companies are thought to have completed a front-end engineering & design (feed) study for the plant and have now bid for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) phase.

The plant is part of a series of projects to expand gas processing capacity in Bahrain over the next three to five years.

Last month, UK-based Petrofac was awarded contract by Bahrain’s Tatweer Petroleum to build a gas dehydration facility in the country.

Petrofac says the 500 million cubic feet a day (cf/d) facility will process gas produced from the Bahrain field.