Kuwait Oil taps ABB for transit line project
9 Jun 2010
London – ABB has won a $155m contract from the Kuwait Oil Co. for a turnkey project to design a new crude-oil transit line and build and associated ancillary systems.
The project includes the expansion of an existing manifold (a pipeline consolidation installation) at a location in the north of the country, and the installation of the 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.
The line 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 thousand barrels of oil per day to a tank farm in southern Kuwait. More than half of the oil will come from the newly established Jurassic field in northern Kuwait.
