MOSCOW (MRC) -- State-run Bahrain Petroleum Company (Bapco) has received bids from international construction companies to expand its Sitra oil refinery, industry sources said, reported Hydrocarbonprocessing.
Companies that submitted bids and that have formed consortia are: Japan's JGC Corp and South Korea's GS
Technip, Tecnicas Reunidas and Samsung Engineering, Fluor, Hyundai Engineering and Construction and Daewoo Engineering and Construction, CB&I, Petrofac and Japan's Mitsui and Co.
Bidding had been expected to close in October, however it was extended due to the scale of the project.
The contract is expected to be awarded by the first quarter of 2017, sources have said.
Bapco did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment.
A Mitsui spokesman in Tokyo confirmed that the Japanese trading house, together with CB&I and Petrofac, submitted a bid for the expansion project on Dec. 7.
GS said it submitted a bid as part of a consortium.
Samsung Engineering also said it bid in a JV with Technip and Tecnicas Reunidas, while Hyundai E&C and Daewoo E&C told Reuters separately they had bid in a JV with Fluor.
As MRC informed before, in early December 2015, the provincial development and reform commission in Fujian Province, China approved Sinochem’s plan to add 60,000 bbl/day capacity at its recently commissioned 240,000 bbl/day Quanzhou refinery and build a new petrochemical complex by 2018. The project was given the go ahead by Fujian’s environmental protection department in October 2015. Quanzhou, Sinochem’s only wholly-owned refinery, started operations in July 2014 and mainly processes Saudi Arabian light, Arab heavy and Iraq’s Basrah light crudes, as well as some Angolan and Omani grades.
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