(EnergyAsia, March 20 2014, Thursday) — International engineering contractors are preparing to start work on US$12 billion worth of upgrades and expansion of two major refineries in Kuwait. Japan’s JGC and its consortium partners were recently awarded a 1.36-billion-dinar tender to upgrade the 460,000-b/d Mina Ahmadi refinery while UK’s Petrofac and its partners secured a…