SNC-Lavalin win $800m EPC Middle East project
SNC-Lavalin is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a significant oil and gas contract in the Middle East with an approximate value of $800 million. The contract further cements SNC-Lavalin’s position in the Middle East. The project will involve developing the infrastructure and processing facilities for a gas field, with SNC-Lavalin’s lump sum...
Mitsui consortium wins major Oman power project
Mitsui, ACWA Power & DIDIC Consortium win Salalah 2 IPP and acquires Dhofar Generating Company in Oman. Oman Power and Water Procurement Company (OPWP) awarded the Salalah 2 Independent Power Project to a consortium of Mitsui, ACWA Power, and Dhofar International Development & Investment Holding Company (DIDIC)(together, the Consortium) and the project related agreements are...
Wood Group wins $120m contract with Babcock
Wood Group has been awarded a new five year framework contract with a five year extension option, valued at approximately $120 million, by Babcock International to provide industrial services to a number of its UK sites. The contract will be delivered by Wood Group PSN’s industrial service line business, Wood Group Industrial Services (WGIS) and...
Swiber lands $100m EPIC deal
Swiber will provide EPIC services for pipelines and subsea installation in South Asia. They have secured a contract worth about US$100 million to provide engineering, procurement, installation and construction services for a National Oil Company (NOC) in South Asia. This latest project, which includes pipelines and subsea installation works, commences immediately and is expected to be completed in the...
Subsea 7 awarded contract offshore Egypt
Subsea 7 S.A. announced today the award of a major(1) contract by BP, and partner DEA (Deutsche Erdoel AG), for the development of the Giza, Fayoum and Raven subsea fields offshore Alexandria, Egypt. This is the second phase of the West Nile Delta project, where the field development will be at depths of up to approximately...
ABB win key orders from NPCC, UAE
ABB, a leading global technology company in power and automation, has won orders from National Petroleum Construction Company (NPCC) for the delivery of electrical and telecommunication systems to the Al Nasr Full field Development Project in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The orders are worth around $18 million. The solutions from ABB will enable NPCC to fulfill...
JDR win two umbilical contracts in UAE, Qatar
JDR, the leading UK based supplier of subsea umbilicals and power cables to the offshore energy industry, has been awarded two umbilical contracts by McDermott Middle East Inc., for undisclosed operators. The umbilicals will be delivered to two projects in the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. The first project includes three umbilicals with a total...
WorleyParsons wins Oman plant contract
WorleyParsons, a leading global engineering services group, said its Omani subsidiary has been awarded a major services contract linked to the construction of a key antimony roaster project at Sohar Port and Freezone in the sultanate. The deal was awarded to WorleyParsons Oman by Strategic & Precious Metals Processing (SPMP), a joint venture between Oman...
Sumitomo wins Mozambique power contract
Sumitomo Corporation has won an order to build a plant that will meet about 20% of Mozambique’s domestic electricity needs. The turnkey engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) agreement with state power company Electricidade de Mozambique (EDM) is for a 110MW gas-fired combined-cycle power plant 6km southeast of the capital, Maputo. This order is valued at about...
Gulf Drilling signs Dolphin drilling contracts
Gulf International Services (“GIS” or “the group”; QE: GISS), the largest service group in Qatar, with interests in a broad cross-section of industries, ranging from insurance, re-insurance, fund management, onshore and offshore drilling, accommodation barge, helicopter transportation, and catering services, announces that its subsidiary Gulf Drilling International (GDI) have signed a contract for Drilling Rig...
Cape awarded South Korean contract
Cape plc has secured a contract with Samsung Heavy Industries (“SHI”) in South Korea for the installation of insulation to the Cryogenic Pipework on the Process Topside on Shell’s Prelude Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (“FLNG”) facility. The Prelude FLNG facility is a global project with the key location for fabrication being in Geoje, South Korea....
Construction starts on Bahrain airport expansion
Bahrain has started construction work on a $1.1 billion airport expansion project which is majority funded by the UAE. The move will see Bahrain International Airport increase its capacity to accommodate 14 million passengers a year, according to the country’s official news agency. Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, the country’s Prime Minister, laid the...