On July 15, 2019, Heavy Engineering Industries and Shipbuilding Company signed a KWD 9 million (USD 29.6 million) five-year contract for the provision of general support services to Wafra Joint Operations (WJO), the operating company for the onshore section of the Partitioned Neutral Zone (PNZ)-a 5,700-sq-km area shared between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia-fuelling expectations of an imminent restart at the acreage's two oil-producing fields.