Al-Khafji Joint Operations (KJO) has allowed contractors additional time to prepare proposals for one of the offshore engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) packages of the Dorra gas field development project.  In March KJO was pushing forward with a major project to produce gas from the Dorra offshore field, located in Gulf waters in the Neutral Zone shared between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. KJO has divided the scope of work on the Dorra gas field development project, estimated to be valued at as high as $10bn, into four EPC packages – three offshore and one onshore. contractors bidding for offshore package 1 now have until 6 May to prepare bids. The previous bid submission deadlines for the package were 22 April, 8 April and 24 March. The EPC scopes of work on the Dorra gas field development project packages and their submission dates are as follows: Package 1 – Seven offshore jackets and laying of intra-field lines – 6 May Package 2A – Seven production deck modules (PDMs) and associated corrosion-resistant alloy-lined pipes connecting to the gas compression plant – 30 June Package 2B – Compression and auxiliary platforms, accommodation platform, associated trunklines and cables connecting to the shoreline – 30 June Package 3 – Onshore gas processing plant – 30 June Bidders for the three offshore packages are understood to include the following contractors: Lamprell (Saudi Arabia/UAE) Larsen & Toubro Energy Hydrocarbon (India) McDermott (US) NMDC Energy (UAE) Saipem (Italy) Separately, contractors bidding for offshore packages 2A and 2B have the option of submitting a combined proposal. The Dorra field is estimated to hold 20 trillion cubic metres of gas and 310 million barrels of oil. Kuwait and Saudi Arabia have been working together to develop the offshore field since it was discovered in 1965. The two sides expect to produce about 1 billion cubic feet a day of gas from the asset and have agreed to split the gas output equally.  KJO, which is jointly owned by Saudi Aramco subsidiary Aramco Gulf Operations Company (AGOC) and Kuwait Gulf Oil Company (KGOC) – a subsidiary of state-owned Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) – is said to have issued the tenders for the project in August last year.  in September 2023  Aramco and KPC had selected France’s Technip Energies to carry out pre-front-end engineering and design (pre-feed) and feed work on the Dorra offshore field development project. The original feed for a project to develop the field was performed more than a decade ago. However, due to changes in technology, the engineering design needed to be updated before the project could reach a final investment decision. (ICE RIYADH)

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