Tag: Kuwait

Yokogawa to supply desalination plant system

Yokogawa Electric Corporation has announced that its subsidiary, Yokogawa Electric Korea, has received an order from Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction Co.

Saipem bags Al-Zour new refinery project in Kuwait

Saipem has received award notification from the Kuwait National Petroleum Corporation (KNPC) for Package 4 and Package 5 of the Al-Zour New Refinery Project (NRP), located 90 km south of Kuwait City, for a total amount of USD 1.3B. The Al-Zour NRP will be one of the largest oil-refining plants in the world, with refining output capacity of 615,000 barrels per day. Photo courtesy of Saipem The NRP has been divided into five major EPC packages.

Kuwait: Al Zour refinery

A key technical panel has approved a previously stalled USD 15 billion project to build a refinery with capacity of 615,000bpd in Kuwait.

Kuwait: refinery project

Kuwait has announced plans to put out to tender a USD 15 billion refinery project that was scrapped seven months ago due to a dispute between MPs and the government.

China: oil refinery and petrochemicals complex

Kuwait has signed an agreement with China to build an oil refinery and petrochemicals complex in Guangdong province in China.

Materials Technology Workshop Middle East

Bayer Technology Services will organize three workshops in Kuwait, Abu Dhabi and Ruwais from 9 March to 11 March 2009.

Kuwait: clean fuel project

Larsen & Toubro has bagged the contract worth USD 421 million to manufacture and supply 22 hydrocracker and atmospheric residue desulphurization reactors for Kuwait National Petroleum Co.'s clean fuel project 2020.

Middle East: Gulf grid order

ABB has announced it has won a contract worth USD 220 million from the Gulf Cooperation Council Interconnection Authority (GCCIA) for phase one of the massive Gulf Grid project, linking the electricity networks of six Gulf states.

Kuwait: oil storage tanks

Kuwait Oil Co. (KOC) has awarded Turkey’s Tekfen Construction and Installation Co. a USD 222 million contract to build eight crude oil storage tanks.

Russia’s Sibneft bids to extract oil in Kuwait

Russia's sixth largest oil producer OAO Sibneft will take part in a tender to develop four large oil fields in North Kuwait, Sibneft's spokesman said.