WorleyParsons wins remediation contract in Kuwait

22 March 2018
Contract is part of the $2.9bn Kuwait Environmental Remediation Project

State-owned upstream operator Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) has awarded a project management consultancy (PMC) contract to Australia’s WorleyParsons as part of its $2.9bn Kuwait Environmental Remediation Project (KERP).

The KERP programme, funded by the UN, is a large-scale environmental remediation and restoration initiative to remediate legacy oil contamination within KOC oilfields damaged in the 1991 Gulf War.

A statement released by WorleyParsons said that it would provide the services for the project from its Kuwait office.

WorleyParsons says the PMC contract is worth $98m over a five-year period.

Iraq’s retreating army torched more than 600 oil wells in 1991. The fires burned for 10 months before being extinguished, leaving behind about 22.5 million barrels of spilled oil and damaging an area spanning 384 square kilometres.

A bioremediation contract is also expected to be awarded this month as part of the KERP programme.

Bioremediation is the use of either naturally occurring or deliberately introduced microorganisms to consume and break down environmental pollutants in order to clean a polluted site.

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