Daewoo E and C wins $730m Qatar expressway contract
South Korea’s Daewoo Engineering & Construction Company has won a $730 million contract by Ashghal, the Qatar public works authority for the extension of the E-Ring expressway in Doha. According to the contract, Daewoo E&C will be the sole contractor of this project, and the work will be completed in 42 months, reported Business Korea....
Wartsila nets Swedish LNG-powered tankers contract
Wärtsilä has been awarded a contract covering four new build tanker vessels. The ships are to be built at the Avic Dingheng shipyard in China, on behalf of three Swedish owners; Furetank (2 vessels), Älvtank, and Thun Tankers, a fully owned subsidiary of Thunbolagen. The vessels will be commercially managed by Furetank Chartering in the...
Jacobs Wins INEOS Contract for LAO Unit, Texas
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (NYSE:JEC) announced today it received a contract from INEOS Oligomers to design and build a large linear alpha olefin (LAO) unit at the INEOS petrochemical complex in Chocolate Bayou, Texas. The LAO unit is expected to come online in November 2018, with a production capacity of 420,000 metric tons per annum....
Amec FW wins second CFB Philippines contract
Amec Foster Wheeler announced that it has been awarded a contract by JGC Corporation to design and supply a circulating fluidized-bed (CFB) steam generator for the SEC210 Phase 2 Project in the Philippines for Sarangani Energy Corp. (SEC), part of Alsons Power. Amec Foster Wheeler’s Global Power Group will design and supply the 105-MW second...
Toshiba wins Turkey power plant order
Wins order for steam turbine and generator for eco-friendly geothermal power project. Toshiba Corporation has won a major order to supply a flash steam turbine system and generator (STG) for Unit 2 of the Kizildere III Geothermal Power Plant in Turkey. Zorlu Energy, an independent power producer and member of Turkey’s Zorlu Energy Group, will...
Pöyry awarded Lao Hyropower plant contract
Pöyry awarded extension to owner’s engineer services assignment for the Xayaburi hydropower plant, Lao PDR. Xayaburi Power Company (XPCL) and the Government of Lao have awarded Pöyry an extension to the owner’s engineer services assignment for the site supervision of the Xayaburi hydropower plant on the Mekong River, Lao PDR. The project will provide clean,...
Statoil drills world’s hottest geothermal well on Iceland
Statoil and partners in The Iceland Deep Drilling Project has just started to drill a geothermal research well on Iceland. The goal is to explore if high temperature water can be extracted from deep reservoirs for power production. In a long term perspective geothermal energy could be a renewable energy source with potential, thus Statoil...
Mott MacDonald awarded Bahrain supervision role
Mott MacDonald is supervising construction of major infrastructure works on Bahrain’s Al Madina Al Shamaliya Islands 10, 11 and 12 on behalf of the country’s Ministry of Housing. The scope of the works includes site grading, highways, storm water drainage, electrical, potable water, sewage and irrigation networks, telecommunication ducting and roadside landscaping. Two vehicular bridges...
Aker Solutions Secure EPCIC Statoil Contract
Aker Solutions will provide engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning (EPCIC) services to enable a tie-in of the Utgard gas and condensate field to the Statoil-operated Sleipner facilities in the North Sea. The work, valued at about NOK 500 million, is for platform modifications at Sleipner to tie in the Utgard subsea field. Aker Solutions...
Centrica signs new LNG deal with Qatargas
Centrica plc has entered into a new five-year supply agreement with Qatargas for the purchase of up to 2 million tonnes per annum of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG). The new LNG contract will start in January 2019, following expiry of Centrica’s existing contract with Qatargas at the end of December 2018. With the decline in...
Gazprom, CNPC win Siberia Pipeline Construction Deal
Gazprom and CNPC sign EPC contract to construct underwater crossing of Power of Siberia. Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, and Wang Yilin, Chairman of the Board of Directors of CNPC, today signed on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hangzhou, China, an EPC contract to construct a crossing under the Amur...
BP Sign 2nd Shale Gas Deal with CNPC
BP today announced that it has signed a second production sharing contract (PSC) for shale gas exploration, development and production with China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC). The PSC, signed on 27th July, covers an area of approximately 1,000 square kilometres at Rong Chang Bei in the Sichuan Basin. In March 2016, BP and CNPC signed...