Aker Solutions wins two contracts in Norway
Aker Solutions Awarded Two MMO Contracts From ConocoPhillips in Norway. Aker Solutions’ maintenance, modifications and operations (MMO) business in Norway secured two contracts for work at North Sea fields operated by ConocoPhillips. The company received a framework agreement for a fixed period of five years to become ConocoPhillips’ main supplier of maintenance and modifications work...
Ssangyong JV wins $1.6bn Dubai projects
Korean builder Ssangyong has won three big projects in Dubai, UAE, worth $1.6 billion by forming a three-way joint venture with European contractor Besix and China State Construction Engineering Corporation, said a report. The consortium will first build the Royal Atlantis Hotel worth $840 million followed by the $386-million Palm Gateway project and an unnamed...
JGC wins $355m gas plant project in Bahrain
JGC Corporation announced that it has received a contract to build the Gas Processing facilities in Bahrain. The Gas Processing Project, located in the Bahrain oil field area south of Awali, near Jebel Al-Dukhan, the Kingdom of Bahrain 20 kilometers south of Manama and operated by the Bahrain National Gas Expansion Company (B.S.C.)., calls for...
Clough award second contract on Ichthys project
Clough announced that Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. Ltd. (DSME) has awarded a contract for the hook-up services on the Ichthys LNG Project Floating, Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) facility. The Ichthys FPSO is a 336 metre long, permanently moored and weather-vaning vessel designed to hold more than one million barrels of condensate. This...
UK Colas win Algiers metro contract
Colas Rail wins two joint-venture contracts for the extension of the Algiers metro. As part of extension projects on the metro in Algiers, Algeria, Colas Rail has been awarded two contracts totaling 168 million euros (total share for Colas Rail: 86 million euros), in partnership with the Algerian public works company Kou.G.C. The first 117-million...
Poyry awarded tunnel assignment for Oslo,Norway
Societá Italiana per Condotte D’Acqua S.p.A. has chosen Pöyry to carry out rock and tunnel engineering for the Follo Line in Oslo, Norway. Pöyry’s assignment includes most of the design needed for 5.5 km of tunnels close to the city centre of Oslo, 4 km of which is for high-speed train traffic. The Follo Line...
Aker Solutions Wins Two MMO Contracts for Åsgard A
Aker Solutions won a front end engineering design (FEED) contract from Statoil for the Trestakk field tie-in to the Åsgard A production vessel in the Norwegian Sea. The company also secured a separate concept study order for a low well-pressure project at Åsgard A. “We’re very pleased to secure the orders for this major oil...
Bahrain Awards $1.1bn airport terminal contracts
Bahrain government has awarded contracts worth $1.1 billion for the construction of a brand new terminal at the kingdom’s airport, which on completion will be able to handle nearly 14 million passengers, said a report. These include five agreements signed as part of the airport modernisation programme (AMP) on the sidelines of Bahrain International Air...
Arup team awarded Taiwan Airport contract
A joint venture with British architect Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, Arup and Taiwan engineering firm CECI and architect FCA has been appointed by the Taoyuan International Airport Corporation for the design and construction of the new Terminal 3. The appointment follows an international design competition which shortlisted three impressive architectural firms including UN...
Otto becomes preferred O & M services provider
Otto Marine Limited, (“Otto Marine” or the “Group”), a leading offshore chartering group, which owns and operates more than 50 offshore support vessels globally,and also engaged in specialized shipbuilding, repair and conversion of offshore support vessels, is pleased to announce that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Go Offshore Pty Ltd (“GO Offshore”), has entered into an agreement (“Agreement”) with a...
Bouygues debuts in India with four luxury condo towers
Bouygues Construction is awarded a contract for two condominiums in Mumbay, it’s first residential construction project in India. The property developer Oberoi Realty has awarded a contract for the construction of two condominiums in Mumbai, India, to a joint venture consisting of Bouygues Bâtiment International and VSL, both of which are subsidiaries of Bouygues Construction....
Mott lands tunnel design for Hong Kong Airport
Mott MacDonald to design passenger and baggage tunnels at Hong Kong International Airport Mott MacDonald has been appointed by the Airport Authority Hong Kong (AAHK) to undertake the detailed design of a 2.6km set of tunnels to house the automated people mover and baggage handling systems, which will serve the third runway concourse of the...