Technip wins Czech contract
Technip, a leader in the project management for the energy industry, has been awarded a significant lump sum contract, by Unipetrol ,to supply four cracking furnaces for their ethylene plant in Zaluzi, in the Czech Republic. The project will cover the engineering, supply and construction of the furnaces, including the associated pipe-rack. These new furnaces...
SNC-Lavalin win Qatargas Refinery Project
SNC-Lavalin is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a contract by Qatargas for a Water Recycling Facility at its Laffan Refinery 2 plant in Ras Laffan Industrial City, Qatar. SNC-Lavalin is providing engineering, procurement, supply, construction and commissioning services for the Recycling Facility to handle treated industrial water from the Laffan Refineries 1...
Van Oord wins $500m Caspian Sea deal
Van Oord has been awarded contracts in the Caspian Sea region with a total value of more than US$500m (£331m). The wins were announced during this week’s visit of the Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte to Kazakhstan. The first project comprises the dredging of a 68km-long access channel to a new cargo offloading facility to...
Alstom signs two contracts in India worth Euro 3.7b
Alstom today signed two major contracts in India for a total amount of more than €3.7 billion. The first contract for the supply of 800 electric locomotives and associated maintenance, following a letter of award received on 9 November 2015, was signed with Indian Railways in the presence of Arun Jaitley, Finance Minister, Suresh Prabhakar...
Transocean Arctic Wins Norwegian Job
Transocean has been awarded a contract for the semi-submersible drilling rig Transocean Arctic. It will be used for drilling in the Alvheim and Volund fields, offshore Norway. The news was revealed earlier this week by by Det norske oljeselskap, the Norwegian oil company for which the rig will be operating. According to Det norske, the...
Saudi inks deal for $38m twin towers in Makkah
A twin tower development worth $37.3m (SAR140m) will be constructed in Makkah by Saudi’s Disabled Children’s Association (DCA). Prince Sultan Bin Salman, president of the Saudi Commission for Tourism and National Heritage and chairman of DCA’s board of directors signed contracts with representatives from national construction companies for the project. The 12-storey towers, named after...
Expro enters Qatar with 5 year contract
Expro, the International oilfield services company, has achieved a significant milestone as it enters Qatar for the first time and expands its Middle Eastern presence with a five-year contract award. The contract will see Expro provide its range of well intervention and slickline services including high deviation and heavy-duty fishing offshore Qatar, as well as...
French conglomerate to build port at Timor Leste
The recently independent state of Timor-Leste in the Indonesian archipelago has chosen a French firm to construct and manage the port of Tibar. Rui Maria de Araújo, the prime minister of Timor Leste, announced in Dili on Wednesday that he expected a final agreement to be signed with the Bolloré Group in the first half...
Aker Solutions wins maintenance contract, Norway
Aker Solutions won a framework agreement to provide maintenance and modifications services at BP-operated oil and gas fields offshore Norway. The contract has a fixed period of five years valued at as much as NOK 3.2 billion. It also contains options to extend the agreement by as many as four years. The accord starts on...
SSH win Sewage Treatment Plant contract
SSH has recently been awarded the engineering consultancy services for the design of a Sewage Treatment Plant located in the prestigious Sabah Al Ahmad Sea City development situated in Khiran, in the south of Kuwait by developer La ‘ala Al-Kuwait Real Estate Company. The Treatment Plant will have a capacity of 45,000 cbm/day and will...
Wood Group wins $90 million Iraq contract
Wood Group has won a new contract worth approximately $90 million to deliver services to one of the world’s leading blue-chip international oil companies (IOC) in Iraq. Wood Group PSN (WGPSN) will provide project management for an onshore facility under the three year contract, which is effective immediately. Concept and FEED work for future projects...
Penspen awarded Niger Delta contract
Penspen, a leading global provider of engineering and management services to the energy industry, has been awarded a contract from Sirius Group to conduct an engineering study for the monetisation of gas reserves from oilfields offshore Niger Delta. A key element of this agreement is the development of gas reserves of the OML 122 field,...