US$1.8bn pipeline contracts awarded in Kuwait

Petrofac group COO Maroun Semaan.

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Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) has awarded contracts worth KWD520 million (US$1.81 billion) to Hyundai Engineering & Construction (HEC) and Petrofac to design and build pipelines.

The State-owned firm said HEC will build low-sulphur fuel oil, fuel gas and gas oil pipelines from Mina al-Ahmadi refinery to the Subbiya and Doha power stations. The project, worth KWD404 million($1.4billion), will be completed by April 2013.

Petrofac will build fuel gas and gas oil pipelines, plus a pumping station, from the same refinery to al-Zour and Shuaiba power stations for KWD116.39 million (US$400 million).

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The project, with an anticipated duration of 23.5 months, is for engineering, procurement and construction services for the installation of fuel gas and gas oil pipelines.

The development will include a fuel oil pumping station, metering systems, utilities systems and associated electrical, instrumentation and telecom works for the pipelines from Mina Al Ahmadi to the Azzour and Shuaiba power stations in Kuwait.

“The Kuwait market is strategically important to our business. I am delighted we have been selected by KOC to undertake this project,” said Petrofac group COO Maroun Semaan.

“We maintain an excellent working relationship with KOC, and look forward to strengthening this further as we move into the execution phase of this project.”