Dubai: Petrofac, the international oil and gas facilities service provider, has been awarded a contract worth more than $600 million (Dh2 billion) for a gas sweetening facilities project in Qatar's Messaieed and Dukhan industrial districts by Qatar Petroleum (QP).

Petrofac will undertake the engineering, procurement, installation and commissioning of gas sweetening facilities in both locations which includes a sulphur recovery upgrade at NGL-3 in Messaieed and an acid gas recovery plant at Arab-D in Dukhan.

Work on the projects is expected to commence shortly and is due for completion within 38 months.

"Petrofac has a long history of working with QP and this award, alongside the engineering services contract that we recently secured, further underpins our continued relationship," Petrofac's group CEO Maroun Semaan said.