Petrofac wins $600m Qatar contract

Oil and gas facilities provider Petrofac has won a $600 million (Dh2.2 billion) contract for gas sweetening facilities in Qatar's Messaieed and Dukhan industrial districts of Qatar Petroleum.

An official release yesterday said Petrofac, which has five global operational centres, including the one in Sharjah, will undertake the engineering, procurement, installation and commissioning of gas sweetening facilities in both locations that includes a sulphur recovery upgrade at NGL-3 in Messaieed and an acid gas recovery plant at Arab-D in Dukhan.

The company said work on the projects is expected to commence shortly and is due for completion within 38 months.

Petrofac's group chief operating officer, Maroun Semaan, said: "This award further underpins our continued relationship."

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