VOL. XLVII

No 02

12-January-2004

BAHRAIN

JGC Wins Bahrain Refinery Low Sulfur Diesel Contract

The Bahrain government announced on 28 December that Japans JGC Corporation had been awarded a contract worth $431.6mn to carry out the low sulfur diesel project the main component in a $700mn program to modernize Bahrain Petroleum Companys (Bapcos) Sitra refinery that was approved in 1998 (MEES, 28 September 1998 and 26 June 2000). JGC outbid two other contenders for the project, Bechtel (with a...