State-owned Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Company (Kipic) has extended the bid submission deadline for a contract to deliver alternative feed systems for the hydrogen production unit at its $16bn Al Zour refinery.Kipic pushed the bid deadline to 14 April from the previous date of 12 March.The date for bid submissions has been extended several times since the project was first tendered last year with an original bid deadline of 20 June 2023.Earlier this year, the bid deadline was extended to 12 March from the previous date of 11 February.The contract scope includes engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) work, as well as work covering pre-commissioning, start-up and quality testing.In September last year, Kipic had contacted the following contractors, among others, to solicit their interest in the planned project:Hyundai Engineering & Construction (South Korea)Larsen & Toubro Energy Hydrocarbon (India)Petrofac (UK)Samsung Engineering (South Korea)SK Engineering & Contracting (South Korea)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 unitConstruction of Unit 60, a steam generation unitConstruction of two new boilers and modifications to extend the existing steam generation unit, including all associated tie-insConstruction of associated facilitiesThe third and final crude distillation unit at the Al Zour refinery was brought online in July last year. (ICE KUWAIT)

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