UK precision tubes manufacturer, Fine Tubes, has been approved as a vendor by the Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) for the supply of ferrous and non-ferrous tubing for its refineries
The approval remains valid until March 2020, according to KNPC.
Established in 1960, KNPC is the national oil refining company of Kuwait and became fully government-owned in 1975. As owners of the Mina Al-Ahmadi, Mina Abdullah and Shuaiba refineries, KNPC is responsible for oil refining, gas liquefaction and the distribution of petroleum products within the local market.
Kuwait currently pumps around three million barrels per day (bpd), mainly from maturing oilfields, but plans to invest billions of dollars on exploration over the next five years in order to increase its output capacity to 4 million bpd by 2020.
The tubing applications that Fine Tubes will be able to offer to KNPC and its qualified suppliers include: downhole, hydraulic and chemical injection control lines, control lines in subsea umbilicals, flowline control line tubing for pipe-in-pipe bundles, downhole gauge cables, control and instrumentation tubing, pressure housings and hydraulic tubing for control measuring devices and pumps.
Nicholas Head, Fine Tubes’ business development manager - oil & gas and chemical process, commented, “Securing this approval will not only open up important new opportunities with KNPC, it will also help to strengthen our position across the Middle East region, which is obviously a hugely important market for our oil and gas business.”
