Local and int’l companies offered polluted soil cleaning project
KUWAIT CITY, May 25: Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) has awarded its largest environmental project for cleaning polluted soil at a total cost of more than KD1 billion to various local and international companies, reports Al-Anba daily quoting sources. Sources revealed the Central Agency for Public Tenders (CAPT) has agreed to award five stages of the project — which is considered one of the largest in the world — to local and international companies; affirming the contracts will be signed within the next two weeks. Sources told the daily that the North Kuwait Drilling, Transport and Processing Project is divided into two sites with a total value of $381.58 million. The first site (Zone One) was awarded to the alliance of Khaled Ali Al-Kharafiand Brothers for Construction Contracting and Lamor Corporation as per the terms and specifications for a total amount of $193.58 million. The second site (Zone Two) was awarded to Kuwaiti Company for Plant Construction and Contracting and Environmental Technology Management Company for a total amount of $188 million.