Kuwait Oil Company has given a key approval for a $381 million upstream oil project at the Al-Rawdatain field, advancing a development focused on water separation and associated production infrastructure.
The project, valued at approximately KD117 million ($381 million), was previously tendered by Kuwait Oil Company (KOC), with India-based Megha Engineering & Infrastructure (MEIL) submitting the lowest bid among seven contractors.
The development centres on a water separation facility at Gathering Centre 25 (GC-25) and a pumping facility at Gathering Centre 30 (GC-30). The facilities are designed to support the handling and processing of produced fluids from Kuwait’s upstream operations.
The project scope includes a three-phase low-pressure wet separator package, low-pressure gas knock-out equipment, a high-integrity pressure protection system, wet crude oil connections and associated gas and effluent-water systems.
Additional work covers fuel-gas sweetening, chemical injection, inline analysers, flare systems, oil recovery equipment, crude-oil pipelines, fire-water networks, electrical and instrumentation systems, control-room facilities and related civil and structural works.
The project represents another investment in Kuwait’s upstream production infrastructure, with new separation, pumping and fluid-handling systems expected to improve the processing and movement of produced fluids at the Al-Rawdatain facilities.
MEIL’s bid of KD117 million was the lowest among the seven offers received. Other bidders included Kuwait-based Mechanical Engineering & Contracting Company, Spetco, Al-Kharafi and Alghanim International, as well as China’s China Oil HBP Science & Technology and Jereh Oil & Gas Engineering.
The project is also part of broader efforts to develop Kuwait’s upstream infrastructure and support production capacity through investment in new processing and field facilities. KOC has previously awarded MEIL a separate contract for a gas sweetening and recovery facility in West Kuwait.
