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Kuwait limits bidding for oil pipeline contracts

7 August 2024

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State-owned upstream operator Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) has issued a statement saying that only 12 companies will be permitted to bid for three strategic oil flowline projects in Kuwait’s south and southeastern regions.

Companies that have submitted grievances about not being listed and requests to participate in the bidding process will be refunded fees associated with their requests, according to the statement.

One of the contracts concerns producer wells, the second relates to injection wells, and the third concerns disposal wells.

The bidding reference numbers for the three contracts are:

RFP-2133746
RFP-2133747
RFP-2133748

The following companies have been listed as prequalified to bid:

Almeer Technical Services (Kuwait)
Cat International (Luxembourg)
Combined Group Contracting Company (Kuwait)
Galfar Al-Misnad Engineering & Contracting (Qatar)
Gulf Spic (Kuwait)
Heisco (Kuwait)
HOT Engineering & Construction (Kuwait)
KDDB General Trading & Contracting (Kuwait)
Mechanical Engineering & Contracting (Kuwait)
NBTC (Kuwait)
SHBC (Kuwait)
Petrojet (Egypt)

All 12 of these companies have been pre-approved by KOC for flowline work.

Previously KOC said that the list of approved companies could be expanded if contractors that had not been listed filed a complaint against their non-inclusion or submitted an application to participate in the tender.

Flowlines are pipelines that connect a single wellhead to a manifold or process equipment. They are used at onshore and offshore fields and can be located either on the surface or subsurface.

Several flowlines connect individual wells to a manifold in large oil and gas fields.

A gathering line transfers the flow from the manifold to a pre-processing stage or a transportation facility or vessel.

Since the start of 2020, KOC has tendered several flowline projects. Many of these have been worth less than $100m, though some larger project contracts were worth about $250m.

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Wil Crisp