KNPC

Kuwait Key Projects and Business Highlights 2014  Despite its sixth largest proven reserves of crude oil in the world, the national oil companies (NOCs) Kuwait Petroleum Company (KPC), Kuwait Oil Company (KOC), Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) and the Petrochemicals Industries Company (PIC) have been rather quiet these last years in term of projects and capital expenditure. After […]

AMEC completed FEED  on KNPC Refinery Fifth Train Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) has pre-qualified the engineering companies to be invited to bid (ITB) for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract of the fifth gas processing train to be added at the Mina Al-Ahmadi Refinery on the coast line of the Kuwait State. This pre-qualification […]

PIC Olefins-3 integrated in KNPC New Refinery Project The wholly state-owned Petrochemicals Industries Company (PIC) is considering to relocate its Olefins-3 project along the New refinery Project (NRP) planned by Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) in Al-Zour, Kuwait. PIC and KNPC may be defined as sisters companies as both belongs to the national Kuwait Petroleum Company (KPC). […]

Kuwait Key Projects and Business Highlights Kuwait holds the sixth largest reserves of conventional crude oil and rank among the top 10 producing countries in the world attracting all the engineering and services companies such as Bechtel, Halliburton, Schlumberger, Fluor, Foster Wheeler, WorleyParsons, Daelim Industrial. Until 2008, the crude oil production in Kuwait was regularly increasing […]

Daelim in the lead for KNPC Mina Al-Ahmadi FCC EPC Daelim Industrial from South Korea submitted the lowest bid for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract of the Fluid Catalytic Convertor (FCC) and Sour Water Treatment package of the Kuwait National Petroleum Corporation (KNPC) refinery at Mina Al-Ahmadi in Kuwait. With this first package to be […]

KNPC awarded PMC contract to Foster Wheeler On December 23rd, 2012, the state-owned oil refiner Kuwait National Petroleum Co (KNPC) selected Foster Wheeler for the project management consultancy (PMC) contract of the multi-billion Clean Fuels Project (CFP). In Kuwait, the CFP project, as well as the New Refinery Project (NRP) were left on hold nearly four years […]

$50 billion of business opportunities in 250 projects  On November 19th 2012, the Project Smart Explorer data base reports $50 billion of business opportunities within the 250 active projects in pursuit in the oil and gas and petrochemical industry. These business opportunities are related for:  – $18 billion to Electrical products and systems (Switchgears, transformers, motors and generators, cables, lighting, power systems, etc…)  – […]

KNPC to award sulfur handling EPC contract in 2013 On October 14, 2012, the Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) kicked off the bidding process for the Mina al-Ahmadi (MAA) Sulphur Handling Facilities (Revamp and new) Project (SHFP). Located 45 kilometers away from Kuwait City, this sulfur handling project belongs to the Mina al-Ahmandi refinery upgrade […]