ALKHOBAR: Japan’s JGC Corp. has signed a $355 million deal with Bahrain’s Banagas to build the expansion of a gas plant in thestate, Bahrain’s state news agency reported.

The plant is expected to accommodate 350 million cubic feet of additional associated gas from the Bahrain oilfield, the agency reported.

The project is expected to take 32 months to be ready for a trial run, with actual operations starting in September 2018, it added.