Heisco lands key Kuwait Oil Company contract
Heavy Engineering Industries & Shipbuilding Company (Heisco) has announced that it has secured a new contract worth KD13.8 million ($45 million) from Kuwait Oil Company (KOC).
A major EPC contracting company based in Kuwait, Heisco caters to a diversified range of business in oil and gas, petrochemicals, power, pressure equipment manufacturing, shipbuilding and repair, dredging and marine construction.
On the contact win, Heisco said under this it will be providing repair and revamping services for KOC's production facilities in North Kuwait areas.
The entire work will be completed within a five-year period, it added.- TradeArabia News Service
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