CH2M to manage India’s first smart city project
CH2M to implement major infrastructure developments integrating digital technologies and intelligent design to transform Amaravati into a technologically-advanced capital city. With support from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s trade promotion arm the U.S. Commercial Service, CH2M and the Indian State of Andhra Pradesh Capital Regional Development Authority have entered into a contract to develop Amaravati...
Mace wins international FM bank contract
Macro has won a global Integrated Facilities Management (IFM), Workplace Services and Project Management contract with Standard Chartered Bank, managing a 4.2 million sq ft portfolio across four continents. The five year, multi-million pound contract, will now see Macro operating in South America and Pakistan while expanding in Africa, Europe and the Middle East. Project...
GE wins $1.4bn power plant contracts in Iraq
GE (NYSE:GE) announced today that it has secured more than $1.4 billion in orders from Iraq’s Ministry of Electricity to set up power plants as well as provide technology upgrades and maintenance services. The announcement further strengthens GE’s collaborations in Iraq to support the country’s power infrastructure and meet the growing need for electricity. GE...
Dawnus picked to build £10m road in Liberia
Dawnus International has been awarded its third contract in Liberia for the £10m Gangra Haul Road project for the world’s largest steel manufacturer, ArcelorMittal. ArcelorMittal is developing three iron ore deposits and a concentrator in the mountains of Nimba County, 300km north east of Liberia’s capital, Monrovia. The work will involve constructing 13km of road...
Ampelmann win first SBM Offshore FPSO job
Ampelmann has been awarded a contract by SBM Offshore Contractors in support of an FPSO maintenance campaign in the Espírito Santo Basin, Brazil. Ampelmann will provide an E-type system in January 2017 with a scope that includes transport, importation, engineering and provision of offshore access services. Sander Groenteman, Business Development Manager for Brazil added “After...
Boskalis wins $533m Oman port contract
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) has received a Letter of Intent to Award a contract for the development of the port of Duqm in Oman. The contract with a value of approximately EUR 480 million will be awarded by Sezad (Special Economic Zone Authority Duqm). The final award is subject to Sezad satisfying certain conditions....
OHL awarded Chile Dam expansion project
OHL has been awarded the project for the expansion of the Talabre Dam in Chile. This contract is the eighth stage in the construction of the tailings dam, located in the city of Calama, in Chile’s Antofagasta region. The project, with a 145-million-euro budget, was awarded by Codelco Chile, the world’s largest copper producer, to...
Van Oord bags $400m Angolan reclamation contract
The consortium consisting of Van Oord and Urbinveste – Promoção e Projectos Imobiliários, S.A. has been awarded the contract for the design and construction of the Marginal da Corimba project in Luanda, Angola. The contract has been signed with the Angolan government (Gabinete Técnico de Gestão da Requalificação e Desenvolvimento Urbano do Perímetro Costeiro da...
Wood Group secures Aramco contract
Wood Group has secured a five year, multi-million dollar framework agreement to continue to provide engineering and project management services to Saudi Aramco’s onshore capital programmes in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Effective immediately, the contract also includes three, one year extension options and will be delivered locally in Saudi Arabia. First awarded in 2010,...
Petrofac awarded Oman gas project
Petrofac has signed a contract worth close to US$600 million with Salalah LPG SFZCO LLC (SLPG), wholly owned subsidiary of Oman Oil Facilities Development Company LLC (OOFDC), to undertake the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of its Salalah LPG extraction project in the southern part of Oman. Under the terms of the 36-month lump sum...
Carillion JV wins £160 million Dubai contract
Dubai World Trade Centre has awarded Al Futtaim Carillion (AFC) the contract to deliver Phase 1A6 of ONE CENTRAL, a major integrated real estate development located between the current Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre and Emirates Towers in the heart of the city’s Central Business District. This latest phase of the ONE CENTRAL development...
McDermott wins EPCI Saudi Aramco Contract
McDermott International, Inc. announced a contract award from Saudi Aramco for the engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) of four jackets and three gas observation platforms offshore Saudi Arabia. The total weight of all structures combined is 11,595 tons. “As the third fast-track jacket contract from Saudi Aramco in the last 18 months, this award...