Kuwait is pressing ahead with planning for its first onshore import terminal and is looking to nail down an LNG supply agreement.

“Although we are keeping our options open Qatar remains the most likely supplier,” said Adnan Eid Al-Adwani, team leader of gas operations at Kuwait Petroleum Corporation subsidiary Kuwait Oil Company.

“Having a regional supplier makes sense logistically,” he added.

Engineering big-hitter Foster Wheeler has been appointed to help design the 1 billion to 1.5