A project budget estimated at 200 million Kuwaiti dinars ($650 million) was approved for the benefit of the Kuwait Oil Company, with the aim of expanding two sewage disposal plants.
Informed sources in the oil sector told a local Arabic daily that according to MEED, the project is now expected to be floated at the end of this year or early 2023, after it was previously expected to be tendered in October or November of this year.
The scope of the project includes the expansion of existing facilities known as EWDP-1 and EWDP-2, EWDP-1 located approximately 20 km south of downtown Kuwait City and EWDP-2 approximately 40 km south of the capital.
For reference, in December last year, the front-end engineering and design (feeding) of the project were completed, especially since water treatment and water disposal from oil extraction have been a concern for KOC for at least two decades.
During the past period, the Burgan oil field, the second largest oil field in the world, witnessed successive increases in the water content of the produced oil, and a lot of wastewater is disposed of using dedicated injection wells.