The tender for the expansion of two wastewater treatment plants for the oil and gas sector in Kuwait has been postponed, and the Kuwait Oil Company is expected to issue a call for bids to contractors for a project estimated to $650 million in early 2023.
According to MEED, it was hoped that a call for bids on the project, which is estimated was expected to be issued to contractors by the end of this year, and is now likely to be tendered in early 2023, reports a local Arabic daily.
MEED had reported earlier that the budget had been approved earlier this year but there has been little progress towards bidding, with one source indicating that the project is still in the same stage.
The scope of the project includes the expansion of existing facilities known as EWDP-1 and EWDP-2. EWDP-1 is located approximately 20 km south of downtown Kuwait City, and EWDP-2 is located approximately 40 km south of the capital.
In December of last year, MEED had reported that the front-end engineering and design (feed) of the project had been completed.
Disposal of petroleum-produced water has been a concern of KOC for at least two decades, as the Burgan oil field, the second largest oil field in the world, has seen successive increases in the water content in the oil it produces. Much of the wastewater is disposed of using injection wells.
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