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Salini Impregilo wins $3.9bn Tajikistan Hydro Project

Salini Impregilo has signed a framework agreement worth $3.9 billion to build a hydroelectric project in Tajikistan. The Group has also been assigned the first lot of the work worth $1.95 billion. It consists in the building of a 335-metre-high rockfill dam with a clay core, the tallest in the world, on the Vakhsh River....

TWMA Secures £1.5m North Sea Contract with Apache

Global integrated drilling waste management and environmental services firm, TWMA, has recently secured a £1.5million contract with Apache on the WilPhoenix platform in the North Sea Beryl field. As part of TWMA’s fully integrated waste management solution, the one year (with one year option) contract will utilise the company’s award-winning TCC RotoMill® for offshore processing...

EPC deal inked for Dubai Power Project

Hassyan Energy Company, a joint venture between Dubai Electricity & Water Authority (DEWA) (51%) and ACWA Power Harbin Holding Company (49%), has signed the EPC agreement with both Harbin Electric International and General Electric (GE) for the Hassyan Energy Phase 1 P.S.C. The EPC agreement pushes forward the development of the project, which will produce...

BAM team bags €63m Belgian civils contract

BAM Contractors nv – an operating company of Royal BAM Group nv, active in the civil market in Flanders and Brussels – has won, in joint venture, a major civil project in Antwerp. The contract value is €63 million, of which one third is for BAM Contractors. The clients are Beheersmaatschappij Antwerpen Mobiel, the City...

Wood Group lands Peregrino contract

Wood Group has been awarded a multi million dollar contract to provide detailed engineering and design, and procurement services to South Atlantic Holding (owned by Statoil and partner Sinochem) for the development of the Peregrino field wellhead platform C, offshore Brazil. Wood Group Mustang will perform the work for Kiewit Offshore Services (KOS), a leading...

Raytheon win $523m Kuwait defence contract

Raytheon Company, the US-based technology and innovation leader, has landed a $523 million contract from the US Army for the upgrade of Kuwait’s Patriot Air and Missile Defence Systems. With this upgrade, Kuwait will be able to better protect its cities and key infrastructure against ballistic missiles, aircraft and other airborne threats. The contract was...

T&T and IGG win CM contract for Schipol expansion

Turner & Townsend  along with construction costs expert IGG have won the contract to jointly provide cost management for a major expansion of the main international airport in the Netherlands. Joint venture between Turner & Townsend and IGG to act as cost managers for new terminal and pier at one of Europe’s busiest airports Extensive...

Salini Impregilo wins $955 million Kuwait contract

Salini Impregilo’s led consortium awarded $955 million contract in Kuwait.  The contract, part of the South Al Mutlaa Housing Project, has been awarded by Kuwait’s Public Authority for Housing Welfare and comprises the creation of a 12,000-hectare urban residential development located approximately 40 km northwest of Kuwait City. Once completed, the new city will receive...

Atkins wins major Hong Kong airport contract

Atkins, the design, engineering and project management consultancy, has won a major, strategic consultancy service contract at Hong Kong International Airport, one of the world’s busiest airports. The contract which is for airfield facilities design of the planned three-runway system (3RS) at the airport will allow it to handle 102 million passengers, 8.9 million tonnes...

Bilfinger secures Maersk inspection contract

Industrial lifecycle support partner Bilfinger Salamis UK has secured a contract to provide inspection enactment services to Maersk Oil. The award comes as the company achieves accreditation from certification bodies DNV and Lloyds Register for the provision of Thickness Measurement of Hull Structures, extending its FPSO inspection service offering. The contract award sees Bilfinger Salamis...

Ezra Holdings secures $300M Deepwater Projects

Ezra Holdings Limited (“Ezra” or the “Group”), a leading contractor and provider of integrated offshore solutions to the oil and gas industry, is pleased to announce that it has received the awards for majors. The awards are valued at approximately US$300 million in aggregate and will be executed in various offshore oil producing regions in the Gulf of Mexico,...

ACC wins $200m Egypt hospital expansion contract

ACC was recently awarded a contract to expand the specialist Children’s Cancer Hospital Egypt 57357. The planned extension will upgrade the facility so that it continues to offer first-class paediatric cancer care to children of the world. Constructed by ACC and opened in 2007, Children’s Cancer Hospital Egypt 57357 is one of the largest children’s...