Under the contract, Nexans will provide over 1000km of cable requires for oil and gas industry, including low and medium-voltage single and multi-core armored IEC standard flame retardant cables.

Qatar International Cables Company country manager and CEO Charles-Edouard Mellagui said: "Winning this major contract for such a high profile and strategic project is an important step for the contribution of the Nexans Group to Qatar 2030 vision and its underlying will to accelerate its industrial development.

"With our QICC footprint, Nexans is well positioned to deliver innovative, competitive cable products for Qatar’s oil and gas projects."

Nexans QICC will design and manufacture 1000km about of low and medium voltage, power and earthing cables for Laffan Refinery 2 project while Nexans France will provide the instrumentation cables and fiber optic cables.

The refinery, which has a condensate processing capacity of 146,000 BPSD, construction is scheduled to be completed in the 3rd quarter 2016.