Project name:  KNPC - Acid gas recovery plant
Name of client:  Kuwait National Petroleum     Company
Budget:   $500 million
Main contractor: Not yet appointed
Facility type:  Acid Gas
Status:   Feed
PMC:  Not yet appointed
Location: Mina Al Ahmadi

Project status
Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) plans to construct a new acid gas recovery plant (AGRP).

The project is one of the few KNPC programme to produce clean fuel, petroleum that meets international standards on sulphur emissions. WorleyParsons Europe is the feasibility study and the Feed consultant.

The intention to bid (ITB) for the EPC contract is expected to be issued in January 2010. And the EPC contract is expected to be awarded before the end of 2010. The winner of the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract will build a gas-handling unit at the refinery as well as sweetening facilities that strip sulphur from gas, a sulphur-recovery unit and related infrastructure.

Project scope
The scope of work includes the revamp of the existing AGRP, and the construction of a new acid gas recovery plant.

Project structure
KNPC is the client. Kuwait National Petroleum Company was established in October 1960 as a shareholder company owned by the government and the private sector.

Schedules for this project
Q2-2008  Feed
Q1-2010  EPC ITB
Q4-2010  EPC
Q3-2014  Expected project completion