Petrofac wins $1.3bn contract in Kuwait

UK-based Petrofac, an oilfield services firm, announced yesterday that it had been awarded a $1.3 billion project for Kuwait Oil Company’s (KOC) gathering centre project, GC 32, located in the Burgan oil field.

The project is the first of its kind to be developed in the field and will process crude oil and associated gas recovered from the Arifjan, Marat, Minagish Oolite and Burgan Wara high Hydrogen Sulphide fields. The oil and gas services company said work will begin shortly and is scheduled to be completed in mid-2020.