Four companies are currently preparing to bid for the contract for the project to develop an alternative feed for the hydrogen production unit at Kuwait’s $16bn Al-Zour refinery.These companies are:Larsen & Toubro Energy Hydrocarbon (India)Sinopec Engineering (China)Heavy Engineering Industries & Ship Building Company (Heisco; Kuwait)Gulf Spic General Trading & Contracting (Kuwait)These are the only companies that attended the pre-tender meeting and purchased the tender documents package for the project, according to industry sources.In June, the bid deadline for the project was pushed back from 20 June to 24 September.The contract scope includes engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) work, as well as work covering pre-commissioning, start-up and quality testing.The project has an estimated budget of $150m and is expected to take 36 months to complete.The scope of the EPC work on the project includes:Construction of unit 38 (compression facilities), including piping tie-ins and connections to process and utility headers within the existing interconnecting pipe racks (unit 74)Modifications and associated tie-ins for unit 33 (the existing hydrogen production unit)Construction of unit 60 (steam generation unit)Construction of two new boilers and modifications to extend the existing steam generation unit, including all associated tie-insConstruction of associated facilitiesKuwait’s Al-Zour refinery project has struggled with significant setbacks during the commissioning phase.In April, it was reported that one of the two units that had already started operations had to be shut down due to technical issues. (ICE KUWAIT)

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