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Amec Foster Wheeler wins BP Iraq contract

Amec Foster Wheeler announces today the award of a three-year framework agreement by BP Iraq NV (BP) to complete conceptual studies and pre-front end engineering design (FEED) work to support BP plans to sustain and grown production at the Rumaila oil field in Iraq. Rumaila, one of the world’s largest oil fields and the largest...

WorleyParsons awarded Canada contract

WorleyParsonsCord has been awarded a contract to provide module assembly and field construction services (“Works Contract”) for the Cutbank Ridge Partnership Program’s 15-27 Saturn Phase 2 Sweet Gas Plant Project at an approximate contract value of CAD130 million. The plant is located approximately 25 km northwest of Dawson Creek, British Columbia, Canada. The contract will be...

Jacobs wins Sahara Petchem Facilities contract

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc announced today it received a three-year contract from Sahara Petrochemicals (Sahara) to provide general engineering services at Sahara’s Jubail Industrial City facilities in Saudi Arabia. Under the terms of the contract, Jacobs is expected to provide engineering, procurement, construction supervision, project management, pre-commissioning and commissioning support to a range of small-...

TransCanada to build $2.1bn gas pipeline in Mexico

TransCanada Corporation (TSX:TRP) (NYSE:TRP) (TransCanada) announced that its joint venture with IEnova, Infraestructura Marina del Golfo (IMG), has been chosen to build, own and operate the US$2.1 billion Sur de Texas-Tuxpan natural gas pipeline in Mexico. The project will be supported by a 25-year natural gas transportation service contract for 2.6 billion cubic feet a...

KBR wins Qatar Expressway project extension

KBR, Inc. (NYSE: KBR) announced that it has been awarded an extension, valued in excess of $185M USD, to its program management consultant (PMC) contract for Qatar’s Expressway Program. The extension will see KBR continuing to deliver full program management capability for the next three years. As Qatar’s Public Works Authority’s (Ashghal) program management contractor,...

AmecFW wins Sasol contract in Mozambique

Amec Foster Wheeler announces today the award of a detailed design and engineering contract by Sasol Petroleum Mozambique Limitada for Phase 1 Tranche 1 of the PSA development for surface facilities, located at Temane, 600km north of Maputo in Mozambique. The scope of work and contract is for a new integrated oil, liquefied petroleum gas...

Petrofac inks FPSO Angola contract

Petrofac has been awarded a three year contract to provide a condition monitoring programme for Bumi Armada’s Olombendo floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit bound for offshore Angola. As a certified American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) Recognised External Specialist in Condition Monitoring and Mobius Institute Board of Certification training partner, this contract builds on...

Turner & Townsend win Unilever’s Dubai plant deal

Turner and Townsend have been appointed to provide full project and cost management services for the construction of Unilever’s new manufacturing factory in the United Arab Emirates. The £250m (DH 1 billion) investment will enable the consumer brands giant to expand its innovative personal care products business across Middle Eastern and North African countries and...

Bechtel Gets Five-Year Extension on Jubail Project

Bechtel Extends Contract on World’s Largest Civil Engineering Project. Bechtel has signed a five-year contract extension with the Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu to continue its long standing management services work at Jubail and Ras Al Khair industrial cities. The Jubail project in the eastern province of Saudi Arabia is recognized as the world’s...

L&T wins stadium contract for 2022 FIFA World Cup

L&T signs contract to build stadium in Qatar for 2022 FIFA World Cup. Larsen & Toubro’s Construction arm, along with its JV partner in Qatar, Al Balagh Trading & Contracting, has signed a contract to build a 40,000 seater stadium, as part of the sports infrastructure being readied by the Emirate in preparation of the 2022 FIFA World...

Dewa sign 2,400MW clean coal power project

Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) has signed an agreement for a project which aims to produce 2,400 megawatts (MW) of electricity and will use clean coal. Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD and CEO of Dewa has signed the Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) and a Shareholders Agreement (SHA) with Mohammad Abdullah Abunayyan, chairman of Acwa...

Pöyry awarded HPP Turkey assignment

Pöyry awarded detailed design services assignment for Hydroelectric Power Plant, Turkey. Kalehan Genç Enerji Üretim A.S. has awarded Pöyry the detailed design services assignment for the Lower Kaleköy Hydroelectric Power Plant and Dam in Turkey. The assignment includes the execution of the detail design for the civil engineering of the powerhouse, and structural reviews, including...