India's L&T Hydrocarbon - the wholly-owned subsidiary of Larsen & Tubro Ltd. (L&T) has achieved a major breakthrough in the Middle East by securing a contract valued at approxiamtely $846 million (KWD 239.7 million) from the Kuwait Oil Company (KOC). L&T Hydrocarbon will execute a complete Engineer-Procure-Construct contract for a Gathering Center for KOC, a subsidiary of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) and fully owned by the State of Kuwait.

Located in north Kuwait, the oil gathering facilities will receive crude from the Raudhatain fields. The Gathering Centre is designed for a multi-stage process that will separate 100,000 barrels of oil per day (bopd) of crude oil, 240,000 barrels of water per day and 62.5 million standard cubic feet per day of associated gas to meet the quality requirements of downstream operations.

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