KJO - Dorra Field Development Program: Offshore and Onshore Facilities: Package 3 (Onshore GPP)
Khafji Joint Operations Company is planning to undertake the construction of onshore package 3 GPP of the Dorra Gas Field Development project in Kuwait Neutral Zone at Saudi Arabia.
Khafji Joint Operations Company plans to start work on the exploitation of the western half of the Dorra and part of the Lulu offshore fields. The Dorra field is estimated to contain non-associated gas reserves of at least 60 trillion cubic feet and production will be shared equally between Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Iran. The demarcation of the concession of the Dorra field is ongoing between Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Iran. The dispute originated in the 1960s when concessions, which overlapped in the field, were awarded to two different companies by Iran and Kuwait. Iran made an award to BP (Anglo-Iranian Petroleum Company at the time), while Kuwait made an award to Royal Dutch Shell.
Kuwait and Saudi Arabia agreed to work jointly on the exploitation of the field after Iran drilled at Dorra a few years back. Kuwait currently requires additional gas for its power and water industry and is planning to get supply from Qatar and possibly Iran. This development will have the additional advantage of ethane / NGL for other industrial uses such as petrochemicals. The current profile consists of the onshore package.
The project is a part of Dorra Field Development Program, Offshore and Onshore Facilities.
The US$2,000 million project includes the following:
1. Construction of gas processing plant
2. Construction of gas distribution stations
3. Construction of gas compression facility
4. Installation of gas gathering pipeline network
5. Installation of rigid jumpers and valves
6. Installation of safety and security facilities
7. Installation of associated facilities
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02 February 2026
The main contract bid submission deadline has been further extended to February 16, 2026. (Source: MEED)
23 January 2026
The following companies have submitted the Project Management Consultancy (PMC) bids for the project: Fluor, KBR, Kent, Tecnicas Reunidas, Wood, Worley. (Source: MEED)
16 January 2026
The main contract bid submission deadline has been further extended to January 26, 2026. (Source: MEED)
04 December 2025
The main contract bid submission has been further extended to December 22, 2025 and the following companies bidding are Sinopec, Tecnicas Reunidas and L&T. The tender for Project Management Consultancy (PMC) has been issued with a bid submission deadline by the first week of January 2026.
03 November 2025
The tender for Project Management Consultancy (PMC) has been issued with a bid submission deadline of November 24, 2025. (Source: MEED)
29 October 2025
The main contract bid submission has been further extended to October 31, 2025 on the project. (Source: MEED)
12 September 2025
The main contract bid submission has been further extended to September 27, 2025 on the project. (Source: MEED)
04 July 2025
The main contract bid submission has been extended to July 31, 2025 on the project. (Source: MEED)
04 June 2025
The following companies are likely to submit the main contract bids. Petrofac, Hyundai E&C, Larsen & Toubro, Saipem and Consolidated Contractors Company. (Source: MEED)
20 March 2025
The main contract tender has been issued on the project with a bid submission date of June 30, 2025. (Source: MEED)
06 February 2025
We have not been able to obtain further updates on this project. We have retained the same project stage and amended the key dates accordingly. We will update the profile as soon as we obtain any new information.
28 March 2024
The front-end engineering and design works are ongoing on the project and Technip Energies has been working as the FEED consultant.
11 August 2023
The project is facing legal issues for the development of the project.
06 July 2023
The negotiations are ongoing between the clients for the development of the project.
19 May 2023
The project is still in initial stages of development.
15 February 2023
The client has approved an additional US$ 10 million (1.5 billion dinars) for drilling and exploration operations to support production and development of the project.Â
27 November 2022
Market sources indicate that there is no news on the development of the project.
01 August 2022
There is no news on the development of the project.
05 April 2022
Kuwaitâs parliament is planning to discuss the future development of the project during the budget meetings in April. (Source: MEED)
30 March 2022
The project has been revived by Saudi and Kuwaiti energy ministries for the development project. Aramco Gulf Operations Company (AGOC) is looking to offer investment opportunities to investors. (Source: MEED)
20 May 2015
The project is cancelled.
10 February 2015
The project is still on hold and the time frame for the revival is unknown at this moment.
10 November 2014
The project is still on hold and the time frame for the revival is unknown at this moment.
13 August 2014
The project is still onhold due to disagreements between the governments of Saudi Arabia & Kuwait.
10 June 2014
The project is kept onhold due to some pending issues with partners.
14 March 2014
The project is kept onhold due to lack of funds and international conditions that created problems for foreign investors, money transfer and supply of goods, equipment and technologies.
30 August 2013
Market sources indicate that the project is put on hold due to disagreements between the governments of Saudi Arabia & Kuwait over how to share the gas back on land. The plan had been to share Dorra's gas at an offshore facility and pump it down separate pipelines to the project partners. But the original plan to pump its share direct to a Kuwaiti beach near a big gas fired power plant is also stuck because of land disputes between Kuwaiti energy companies.
17 April 2013
A company active on the project quoted that the pre-qualification documents for the project have not been issued and are likely to be issued in near future.
13 February 2013
A company active on the project quoted that the project is moving at a slow pace. KJO will finalise on a decision how to proceed with the project.
12 December 2012
Saudi Aramco has awarded the five year General Engineering Services Plus (GES+) contract to SNC-Lavalin. SNC-Lavalin will carry out a range of front-end studies, will perform preliminary and detailed engineering, and provide procurement and construction management support for onshore and offshore hydrocarbon and industrial projects.
29 November 2012
Industry sources indicate that FEED is complete and the EPC tenders for the project is expected to be released in 2013.
26 September 2012
Market sources indicate that the project has been delayed due to country disputes between Kuwait and Iran. The delay is due to issues about where the gas is supposed to be delivered. Once the disputes are resolved, work on the project will commence. The tender for the project is not expected soon owing to this delay.
02 May 2012
FEED is ongoing, quoted in MEED article dtd May 02, 2012.
02 May 2012
Khafji Joint Operations Company plans to start work on exploitation of the western half of the Dorra and part of the Lulu offshore fields. The Dorra field is estimated to contain non-associated gas reserves of at least 60 trillion cubic feet and production will be shared equally between Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Iran. The demarcation of the concession of the Dorra field is ongoing between Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iran. The dispute originated in the 1960s when concessions, which overlapped in the field, were awarded to two different companies by Iran and Kuwait. Iran made an award to BP (Anglo-Iranian Petroleum Company at the time), while Kuwait made an award to Royal Dutch Shell. Kuwait and Saudi Arabia agreed to work jointly on exploitation of the field, after Iran drilled at Dorra a few years back. Kuwait currently requires additional gas for its power and water industry and is planning to get supply from Qatar and possibly Iran. This development will have the additional advantage of ethane / NGL for other industrial uses such as petrochemicals. The current profile consists of the onshore package.