UK’s Biwater wins $1.2bn Kurdistan water project
British water engineering company, Biwater, have been awarded a USD $1.2 billion contract by the Kurdistan Regional Government to meet vital water supply and sanitation needs. Biwater have been contracted to deliver water and wastewater treatment solutions for the cities of Erbil and Sulaimani in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Works will alleviate the current...
Höegh LNG awarded long term Ghana contract
Höegh LNG have signed an FSRU contract with Quantum Power Ghana Gas Limited (“Quantum Power”) for the Tema LNG import terminal located close to Accra in Ghana (“Tema LNG Project”). The Tema LNG Project is supported by the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), Ghana’s national oil and gas company. The contract is for a period...
NES Global adds Frontica Advantage to portfolio
NES Global Talent (NES) is pleased to announce it has entered into a definitive agreement with Akastor ASA, a leading oil service investment company, to add their Frontica Advantage (Advantage) business to its portfolio. NES provides a range of contract and permanent talent solutions to the Oil & Gas, Power, Construction & Infrastructure, Life Sciences,...
Amec Foster Wheeler joins Heathrow’s third runway bid
Amec Foster Wheeler announced that it has been awarded a contract by Heathrow Airport Limited to help secure permission for the building of a third runway. For this Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project, Amec Foster Wheeler has been appointed as an Integrated Design Team partner and will provide a suite of services to support Heathrow in...
Bibby Offshore wins Shell North Sea contract
Bibby Offshore, a leading subsea services provider to the oil and gas industry, today announced that it has secured a significant contract with Shell. The campaign, due to commence in Q1 2017, will see Bibby Offshore provide engineering and subsea construction activities in the Gannet G field in the Central North Sea. Under the agreement,...
HLG wins Al Mutahidah Towers construction project
HLG has been awarded a contract valued at QR580 Million (US$158.9 Million) for the Construction of Al Mutahidah Towers by United Development Company (UDC) one of the leading Qatari public share holding companies. HLG, operating as Leighton Contracting (Qatar) WLL is responsible for the construction of twin 25 storey residential towers consisting of 480 apartments,...
Jacobs Awarded Contract Extension by Saudi Aramco
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (NYSE:JEC) announced that it has received an amendment from Saudi Aramco for its general engineering services (GES) contract. While officials did not disclose the contract value, the five-year extension builds on the framework of the original contract signed in 2011. Services include engineering, procurement and construction management services associated with Saudi...
Orion Group strikes pioneering recruitment deal in China
The Orion Group has become the first manpower company in the world to sign a joint venture (JV) agreement with China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC). Orion chairman Alan Savage visited the city of Tianjin and signed the pioneering deal alongside General Manager of CNOOC Energy Technology & Service-Safety and Environmental Protection Co., Liu Huai...
Qatar-China JV awarded 2022 World Cup stadium contract
The Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy (SC) has announced the Main Contractor (MC) on Lusail Stadium, with Qatari contractor HBK Contracting Co. W.L.L. (HBK) and China Railway Construction Corporation Limited (CRCC) as a joint-venture (JV). British architectural firm Foster + Partners completed the schematic design of the 80,000-seater stadium earlier this year. The venue, located...
Samsung wins EPCC contract in Thailand
Samsung Engineering was awarded an EPCC contract from PTT Public Company Ltd., a Thailand state-owned oil & gas company, for a gas compressor station project worth $110mil USD. The project is located in WangNoi, Ayutthaya 70km north of Bangkok, Thailand. The project which uses Gas Turbine Driven Compressors with Shaft Power of 16MW will provide...
Strukton International win first Latin America project
Strukton International has been awarded a contract by Metro de Santiago S.A. to construct five underground stations (package Grupo 1 & 2) at Line 3, one of the new metro lines under construction in the city centre of Santiago, Chile. It is the first project in the Latin American region for the company of Dutch...
Saudi Aramco extend KBR’s GES contract
KBR, Inc. announced that its Saudi Arabian joint venture engineering operation, KBR-AMCDE, has signed an amendment to extend its existing General Engineering Services Plus (GES+) Contract with Saudi Aramco. Under the terms of the contract, KBR will provide front-end engineering design (FEED), detailed design, material procurement, and project management services (PMS) to support Saudi Aramco’s...