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Wood Group Win Pembroke Refinery Contract

Wood Group enters new sector in UK with Valero Energy refinery contract. Wood Group has secured a new five year framework agreement with Valero Energy, an international manufacturer and marketer of transportation fuels, petrochemical products and power. Effective immediately, Wood Group Industrial Services (WGIS), Wood Group PSN’s industrial service line business, will provide services to...

Punj Lloyd bags $304m EPC deal in Oman

Punj Lloyd, an engineering and construction group in India, has won a $304 million oil and gas engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) deal for Oman Oil Refineries and Petroleum Industries Company (Orpic) and Oman Gas Company (OGC), according to a report. The scope of work for the contracts include the construction of a 14-inch diameter,...

Bechtel wins Light Rail project in Canada

TransEd Partners, a consortium including global engineering and construction company Bechtel, has been selected by the City of Edmonton to finance, design, supply vehicles, build, operate, and maintain the first phase of the Edmonton Valley Line Light Rail Transit project. The Valley Line is central to the City of Edmonton’s transportation plan, designed to meet...

Wood Group signs agreement in UK with Valero Energy

Wood Group has secured a new five year framework agreement with Valero Energy, an international manufacturer and marketer of transportation fuels, petrochemical products and power. Effective immediately, Wood Group Industrial Services (WGIS), Wood Group PSN’s industrial service line business, will provide services to the onshore Pembroke refinery in south west Wales. The contract signifies an...

SSH awarded islands project in Bahrain

SSH has been appointed as Contract Manager and Site Supervision consultant by The Ministry of Housing for the construction of the Primary Infrastructure and Bridge Construction on Islands 13 & 14 (East) of Al Madina Al Shamaliya Islands (AMAS). AMAS is a mixed-use development project creating a new urban town located on reclaimed land off...

Technip nets Statoil pipeline double

Technip was awarded by Statoil ASA two lump sum contracts for infield pipeline construction for the Johan Sverdrup Development and the Oseberg Vestflanken 2 projects. The Johan Sverdrup field is one of the largest oil fields in the North Sea and was discovered late 2011. The first development phase is targeted to be on-stream in...

Technip wins more subsea Gulf of Mexico work

Technip awarded a subsea contract for the South Santa Cruz and Barataria fields in the Gulf of Mexico Leveraging its unique subsea vertical integration Technip has been awarded a lump sum contract by Deep Gulf Energy III, LLC (“DGE”) for the development of the South Santa Cruz and Barataria fields. These ultra-deepwater fields are located...

Total signs Pertomina LNG agreement

Total has signed long-term liquefied natural gas (LNG) sale and purchase agreements with state-owned Indonesian company Pertamina for the supply of LNG volumes increasing from 0.4 to 1 million tonnes per year over a period of 15 years beginning 2020. “These agreements allow the Group to further expand its long standing cooperation with Pertamina and...

GE Oil & Gas awarded Oman contract

Edgo’s partner in Oman, GE Oil & Gas, has signed a landmark, long-term contract with Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) for the provision of integrated Reciprocating Rod Pump (RRP) equipment and related services. The deal forms part of a US$700 million suite of contracts, unveiled by GE at their annual conference in Florence, Italy. Joining hands...

VINCI signs €500m contract for Strasbourg bypass

VINCI signed with the Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy, a concession contract with a duration of 54 years, for the design, financing, construction, operation and maintenance 24 km west bypass of Strasbourg, 2×2, connecting the north junction of the A4 / A35 at the junction south of the A352 / A35. To improve...

Statoil awards contracts NOK 1.6 billion

Statoil awarding contracts for Oseberg Vestflanken 2, Johan Sverdrup and Gina Krog The contracts awarded on behalf of the licence partners include marine operations, marine construction, engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of an unmanned wellhead platform as well as modifications at the Oseberg Field Centre. The contracts have a combined value of approximately NOK 1.6...

Italy’s Trevi wins Iraq dam contract

Italy’s Trevi Group has won a bid to make urgent repairs to Iraq’s Mosul hydro-electric dam, close to territory held by Islamic State (IS) militants, and expects to sign a contract in coming weeks, the Italian foreign minister said on Tuesday. The 3.6-km-long dam has suffered from structural flaws since its construction in the 1980s,...