Essar Projects, in a joint venture with Italy's Saipem S.p.A, has won a $ 1.57 billion order from Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) for setting up Al-Zour Refinery Project, Package-4, in the State of Kuwait whih is expected to be completed by 2019.
The new refinery project will have a crude processing capacity of 615,000 barrels per day. KNPC has awarded four contracts for the refinery's construction, worth over $ 13.2 billion to successful international bidders.
Essar Projects has begun to mobilise resources for the project.