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Kuwait booster station contract for Saipem
KUWAIT: Saipem, a subsidiary of Italy's Eni SpA, has been awarded an onshore contract worth approximately KD261.1 million ($900 million) to build a new gas booster station in West Kuwait.
The engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract, awarded by Kuwait Oil Company (KOC), covers the new booster station (BS-171), which will produce 234 million cubic feet per day (cfpd) of dry gas and 69,000 barrels per day of condensate.
The work will involve the setting up of three identical two-stage compressor trains Jan (LP & HP), including gas and condensate dehydration trains. Each train will be capable of processing 125 cfpd of sour gas.
The work is scheduled to be completed within the second quarter of 2013. Saipem is currently building a Gas Booster Station 160 in Southeast Kuwait for KOC.
Saipem, a large, international turnkey contractor in the oil and gas industry, has a strong presence in strategic and emerging areas such as West Africa, North Africa, FSU, Central Asia, Middle East and South East Asia.
The frim has shown a strong bias towards oil and gas related activities in remote areas and deepwater and in the provision of engineering, procurement, project management and construction services.
It has capabilities in the design and the execution of large-scale offshore...