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Wood Group secure $700m Tengiz contract

Wood Group is providing main automation contractor (MAC) services to Tengizchevroil (TCO) for the Future Growth Project-Wellhead Pressure Management Project at the Tengiz Field in Kazakhstan. Wood Group’s vendor- independent Automation & Control business will provide optimal integrated process and safety solutions to TCO under a multi-year contract valued at approximately $700 million. Wood Group...

WELTEC BIOPOWER to build 800-kW biogas plant in Colombia

WELTEC BIOPOWER will shortly start building an anaerobic digestion plant for Colombia‘s largest egg producer. The 800-kW biogas plant is to go live in early 2017. In terms of the feedstock input, the operator Incubadora Santander, which produces about 3.5 million eggs a day, plans to make use of the co-digestion of dry chicken manure...

MTSI win $28m Engineering Support Contract

MTSI Wins $28 Million Air National Guard Air Force Reserve Modernization and Engineering Support Contract. The National Guard Bureau (NGB) has awarded a $28 million modernization and engineering support contract for the Air National Guard Air Force Reserve Command Test Center (AATC) to Modern Technology Solutions, Inc. (MTSI), an engineering services and technology solutions provider...

Nakheel awards AED1.5bn construction contract

Dubai master developer Nakheel  signed a contract worth AED1.5 billion for the construction of its Al Khail Avenue retail, dining and entertainment hub – and announced that it is now bringing hospitality into the mix by adding a 252-room hotel to the complex. The contract was awarded to UAE-based Dhabi Contracting LLC, with construction set...

Hill’s JV awarded Qatar rail contract extension

Hill International (NYSE:HIL) has  announced  that its joint venture with ASTAD Engineering Consultancy and Project Management Company has received a contract extension from Qatar Railways Company to continue providing project management services in connection with the Green Line, one of four major lines of the new Doha Metro transit system. The thirty-month extension has an...

Peterson win Statoil Dudgeon offshore wind farm work

Leading international energy logistics provider Peterson has been awarded two long term contracts with Statoil to provide logistics support for the Dudgeon offshore wind farm located in the Southern North Sea. Peterson will work closely with the operator to deliver comprehensive logistics services including stevedoring, ship agency services, provisions delivery and transportation of personnel for...

Fluor Awarded Bauxite Expansion Project in Guinea

Fluor Corporation have announced that Compagnie des Bauxites de Guinée (CBG) awarded Fluor an engineering, procurement and construction management contract for the Bauxite Production Expansion Project in Kamsar, Guinea. Fluor booked the $501 million contract value into backlog in the second quarter of 2016. The project will expand bauxite production from 14.5 million to 18.5...

VINCI wins port extension contract, Jamaica.

A joint venture made up of VINCI Construction subsidiaries VINCI Construction Grands Projets and EMCC and the Belgian dredging company Jan de Nul has won the $147 million (about €130 million) contract to extend the port of Kingston, Jamaica. Leading worldwide shipping group CMA CGM, which has held the concession for the port of Kingston...

Black & Veatch win S. African energy contract

Black & Veatch was selected by MBHE African Power (PTY) Ltd, a local renewable energy developer, to provide technical assistance for the country’s first waste-to-energy (WTE) plant. The energy plant will be located in the Drakenstein Municipality, near Wellington in the Western Cape. The energy plant will contribute 10 megawatts to the nation’s power grid...

AmecFW wins Thailand contract

Amec Foster Wheeler announces it has been awarded a Front End Engineering Design (FEED) contract by Thai Oil Public Company Limited for its Clean Fuel Project at the in Thailand.  The contract is due for completion in the second quarter of 2017. The project will enable a crude distillation capacity expansion from 275,000 barrels per...

Poyry wins engineering services contract

Pöyry awarded engineering services assignment for expansion of Lausanne railway station, Switzerland. Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) has appointed Pöyry, as part of the engineering consortium 4G, for the “Galette – Bâtiment Voyageur” (passenger building) main lot at Lausanne station. Pöyry is deploying expertise from across departments including civil engineering, railway engineering and buildings divisions to...

DOF Subsea awarded vessel contract

Shell Australia has awarded DOF Subsea a five-year contract with 2x two year options to provide a fulltime underwater services and multi-purpose supply vessel (MPSV) to the Prelude FLNG facility. Prelude FLNG, the largest floating facility ever built, will produce, liquefy, store and transfer LNG at sea. The facility will be located in Western Australia....