Up to four leading international engineering giants are in the frame for a key contract from Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) for work on a liquefied natural gas export terminal in the United Arab Emirates.

Multiple people familiar with the development told Upstream that bids were recently submitted for a front-end engineering and design tender involving the LNG export facility.

Adnoc plans to develop a two-train 10 million tonnes per annum liquefaction facility at Fujairah to cater to several gas markets around the world and is pressing ahead with the project’s FEED tender.

The bidders are said to include KBR, Fluor and McDermott International of the US and engineering giant Technip Energies, one person said.

Japan’s JGC and Chiyoda were also said to be initially eyeing the FEED job but are no longer in the fray, he added.

Adnoc is expected to finalise the preferred bidder within weeks and the FEED study is likely to be carried out later this year, another one said.

An Adnoc spokesperson declined to comment on the FEED tender.