Name of client : KNPC – Kuwait National    Petroleum Company
Revised budget : $900 million
Facility type : Gas production
Sector : Gas
Status : Engineering & Procurement
Location : Mina Al Ahmadi
Feed : AMEC

Background

Mina Al-Ahmadi Refinery Modernisation Project (RMP) was basically intended to provide the local and world markets with low sulphur-content petroleum products, and to reduce dependence on gas as fuel.

Project status

May 2015:Tecnicas Reunidas wins contract to build the fifth gas new fractionation train at Kuwait’s Mina Al-Ahmadi refinery.
Project scope

The scope of the scheme involves:

•Feed gas compressor;

• Feed gas dehydration;

• LPG dehydration;

• NGL recovery;

• Fractionation & product treating unit;

• Substation;

• Flare system;

• Nitrogen generation & distribution system; and

• Air compression system.

The fifth gas train is designed to process associated gas and condensate from KOC gathering centres in southeast Kuwait and north Kuwait oil fields. It will also be supplied with refinery gases from the acid gas removal plants at the two other refineries owned and operated by the KNPC Shuaibah refinery and Mina Abdullah refinery.

Project schedule

Feasibility Study                     Q2-2011

EPC ITB                                  Q3-2014

Engineering & Procurement   Q2-2015

Construction                            Q4-2015

Completion                              Q4-2017