Italian engineering firm, Saipem has been awarded a USD850mn contract by the Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) to build pipelines for Al Zour Refinery. Work will involve the construction of a system of feed pipelines for the plant of varying diametres. The pipelines will be c450km long and will be used to transport crude oil from KOC's South Tank Farm manifolds to the new refinery. A new pipeline network will also be set up to deliver refined fuel to a storage area at the Mina Al Ahmadi refinery, which will be used to feed the Northern Power Station. Al Zour refinery is a new USD16bn refinery petrochemical complex, which is being built under five separate packages. The first one is being  delivered by a Techinicas, Hanwha and Sinopec JV, while the second and third packages are being built by Fluor, Daewoo and Hyundai Heavy Industries, the fourth is being delivered by Saipem and Essar Oil and the fifth by Saipem, Hyundai Engineering and SK Holdings. The refinery is expected to be completed by the end of 2019.