A $228 million contract to build a gas processing plant on Abu Tubul Block 60 was awarded by Oman Oil Co. Exploration and Production LLC to Enerflex Ltd.

The plant will produce 90 million cubic feet of natural gas and 6,000 barrels of liquids a day. The facility is slated to begin operations in the third quarter 2013.

Enerflex also operates gas compression plants in Oman and Bahrain, noted Blair Goertzen, Enerflex's president and chief executive officer.