Name of client  : KOC - Kuwait Oil Company
Budget  :  $4.5 billion
Facility type  : Steam Injection
Sector  : Oil
Status  : Engineering & Procurement
Location Northern :  Kuwait
Feed  : WorleyParsons
PMC  : WorleyParsons
Main Contractor : Consolidated Contracting Company (CCC), Petrofac

Background

Kuwait’s Lower Fars Heavy Crude Oil Scheme is expected to be one of the largest and most ambitious upstream projects of the Middle East.

With a budget estimated at $7 billion for the entire project (with $4.5 billion allocated for phase 1), the Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) aims collect large amounts of data and drill over 900 hundred wells to extract heavy crude oil from the Ratqa field in North Kuwait.

Project status

May 2015: Construction is slated to begin first quarter of 2016.

Project scope

The scope of work covers greenfield and brownfield facilities and includes engineering, procurement, construction, pre-commissioning, commissioning, start-up and operations and maintenance work for the main central processing facility (CPF) and associated infrastructure as well as the production support complex.

This includes a pipeline of almost 162 kilometres, which will transport the heavy crude from the CPF to South Tank Farm located in Ahmadi, from where KOC has the option to send it to the proposed Al-Zour refinery in the south of Kuwait.

Project finance

The Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) is the client.

Project schedule

Feasibility Study  Q1-2010
EPC ITB  Q4-2013
Engineering & Procurement  Q1-2015
Construction  Q1-2016
Completion    Q4-2018