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Kuwait signs USD 2.9bn gas deal with Korean firms

31 Mar 2016

(MENAFN) Kuwait signed a USD 2.93bn deal with three South Korean companies for the building of the huge liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) import facility.

Moreover, the project will be built at the Al-Zour refinery near the border with KSA, which was given to Hyundai Engineering Co., Hyundai & Construction Co. and Korea Gas Corporation.

Additionally, the facility will be part of a large complex built in Al-Zour, south of Kuwait City, which will be house a state-of-the-art 615,000 barrel-per-day.

The country awarded deal value USD 13.2bn to 10 international companies to build the refinery, which is ready to come on line in late 2019.

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