Zurich, Switzerland-based power and automation technology group ABB has won a contract worth $155 million from the Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) for a project to design and build a new crude-oil transit line and associated ancillary systems.
The project includes the expansion of an existing manifold (a pipeline consolidation installation) at Point A, a location in the north of the country, and the installation of a new transit line. The 123 km, 30-inch-diameter transit line will run between oil fields in the north of the country and a storage facility in the south. It will be equipped with pipeline inspection gauges at 15 km intervals, a leak-detection system and metering stations.
The new installations are designed to transport up to 665,000 barrels of oil per day from Point A to a tank farm in southern Kuwait. More than half of the oil will come from the newly established Jurassic field in northern Kuwait.
The project is scheduled for completion in spring 2012.