Van Oord JV awarded Brazil dredging contract
Van Oord has been awarded a contract by the Brazilian Ministry of Transport, Ports and Civil Aviation for the capital and maintenance dredging of the port of Santos, Brazil. This project in the largest port of South America will be executed in a joint venture with Boskalis. The contract carries a total value for the...
Fluor Wins Guinea Bauxite Mining Contract
Fluor Corporation announced that Guinea Alumina Corporation S.A. (GAC) has awarded Fluor an engineering and program management consultancy contract for a major bauxite mine in the Boké region of Guinea, Africa. Fluor booked the approximately $700 million contract value into backlog in the fourth quarter of 2016. Working alongside GAC, Fluor will manage the development...
PDO Signs Duqm $1.2B Pipe Supply Contract
Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) has signed a US$1.2 billion contract to supply piping for its drilling operations through Duqm. The five-year deal with Japanese supplier Sumitomo further includes a new supply yard in the Duqm Special Economic Zone which will be a logistics centre for materials being delivered to PDO’s drilling locations. The agreement will...
AmecFW awarded contract for US methanol plant
Amec Foster Wheeler announced that its Global Power Group (GPG) has been awarded a contract and received a full notice to proceed from Yuhuang Chemical Inc. (YCI), a US based subsidiary of Shandong Yuhuang Chemical Company Ltd (SYCC), for the supply of an auxiliary boiler for its methanol facility currently under construction in Louisiana. GPG...
EFS wins $122m FM contracts in Qatar, UAE
EFS Facilities Services, a regional leader in delivering integrated facilities management services across the Middle East, Africa, South Asia and Turkey, today announced major contract wins worth AED 450 Million in UAE and Qatar. The company has secured contracts to manage the premises of a major government entity in UAE as well as projects in...
Kier wins Dubai accommodation contract
A 50-50 joint venture of Kier and Arabian Construction has won a £150m accommodation project in Dubai. Kier has been awarded a £75 million contract in Dubai to deliver a second staff accommodation project on behalf of Nshmi, a local developer and existing client. The project will be funded with the support of UK Export...
Wood Group secures Hess Malaysia contract
Wood Group has been awarded a five year contract with Hess Exploration & Production Malaysia. The operations and maintenance contract is to support Hess’ new-build fixed and floating offshore facilities in the North Malay Basin development area located approximately 150km north east of the Peninsular Malaysia, and includes a one-year extension option. Delivered by Wood...
HLG awarded AED401m Dubai Tower Project
HLG Contracting has been awarded a contract valued at AED 401 million for the Construction of Al Garhoud Towers by Hasabi Real Estate, one of Dubai’s leading development companies. Al Garhoud Towers are located at Al Garhoud area near Dubai International Airport in the Emirate of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. HLG, operating as HLG Contracting...
Saipem Awarded $240m Oil Drilling Contracts
Saipem has been awarded new contracts and the extension of pre-existing agreements in the onshore drilling sector in Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Bolivia and Argentina for a total value of $240 million. In the Middle East, a strategic area for the Company, Saipem boosts its presence with a further important three-year extension to activities relating to...
Halliburton win Shell Drilling Contract, Iraq
Halliburton (NYSE: HAL) today announced it has signed a contract with Shell Iraq Petroleum Development to provide drilling services for sustained production at Shell’s Majnoon Oil Field in Southern Iraq. Under the contract Halliburton will mobilize three rigs to drill development wells and carry out work over activities over the next two years. “We are...
Recrutiment firm Petroplan expands into Oman
As Oman looks to grow its oil and gas industry, global oil and gas recruitment firm Petroplan is expanding its presence in the Sultanate, working with international operators and service companies to help fill specialist roles whilst working within Oman’s strict workforce nationalisation rules. There is an urgent need for qualified oil and gas personnel...
Tecnicas Reunidas wins Aramco clean fuels contract
Saudi Aramco, the Saudi Arabian state-owned oil company, has selected Técnicas Reunidas (TR) to execute the turnkey contract for the Clean Fuels project in the Ras Tanura refinery in the east coast of Saudi Arabia. The contract has a duration of 48 months until the mechanical completion of the plant. The scope of this contract...