The companies have not officially been pre-qualified but sources said they had been told to expect an invitation to tender imminently.
The eight are National Petroleum Construction Company (NPCC) of Abu Dhabi; SMOE of Singapore; the Koreans Daewoo, Hyundai and Samsung; McDermott of the US; Spain's Dragados; and Anglo-Norwegian Stolt Offshore.
The lump-sum contract covers a processing platform with stripping and compression facilities, a standalone flare tripod, a utilities platform, bridges linking the new platforms and flare to the PS-3 oil and gas production station, and subsea pipelines connecting the production and re-injection wells to the processing facilities on the new PS-3K platform.
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