Turner & Townsend secures two Dutch wins
BNG Bank has appointed Turner & Townsend as technical advisor on two major building projects that the bank is financing in the Netherlands. The consultancy will be working closely with BNG Bank on a public-private partnership (PPP) project for a new town hall for the Municipal Council of Westland – the first partnership of its...
KBR Signs major contract for LNG Project
KBR, Inc. (NYSE: KBR) announced the signing of a major engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract by Magnolia LNG (MLNG) for a liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility at the Port of Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA. KBR will lead the KSJV joint venture with SK Engineering & Construction (South Korea) for execution of the project. The...
Doosan Babcock win Abu Dhabi gas plant deal
Doosan Babcock, the energy engineering specialist, has signed two long-term maintenance agreements with Abu Dhabi Gas Industries Limited (GASCO). The contracts are for five years, during which time, Doosan Babcock will provide essential maintenance and shutdown services at Abu Dhabi’s Habshan and Bab complex – considered among the largest gas processing complexes in the world....
Carillion wins £100m of Canadian contracts
Carillion and their subsidiary Bouchier Group have won support services contracts that are expected to have a combined value of more than £100m over a period of up to five years. The contracts includes facilities management services at Canadian Forces Base, Petewawa. The list includes a maintenance and facilities management contract for the Department of...
Amec Foster Wheeler wins agreement with EDF
Amec Foster Wheeler announces today the award of a lifetime enterprise agreement from EDF Energy to provide technical support and expertise for the lifetime of their current UK reactor fleet. The agreement, the value of which has not been announced, will cover all interfaces of work with a focus on EDF Energy’s reactor systems, reactor...
Hill International Wins Oman Airport Extension
Hill International, a global leader in managing construction risk, said it has been awarded a three-year extension to its existing engineering consultancy services contract for the exansion of Muscat International Airport and Salalah Airport. Oman’s Ministry of Transport and Communications and the Public Authority for Civil Aviation had awarded the contract to the US construction...
Consolidated win Qatar airport reclamation deal
Aircraft at Hamad International Airport will have more room to manoeuver when the new project to add additional taxiways is completed, the New Doha International Airport Steering Committee has said. In a statement, the committee announced that it had awarded a QR277 million (US$76.11 million) contract to Consolidated Engineering Construction Co. to reclaim land to...
Alstom Wins Cairo Metro Supply Contracts
Alstom, a global leader in the world of power generation and rail infrastructure, said it has won contracts worth around €190 million ($212 million) from Egypt’s National Authority for Tunnels (NAT) to supply a signalling and telecommunications system and infrastructure for the third phase of Cairo metro line 3 currently under construction. The Line 3...
Eni in Marine XII Congo Find
Italy’s Eni has encountered a new oil and condensate discovery in the Marine XII block, offshore in the Congo. The Nkala Marine prospect is located in Marine XII block, about 20km from the coast and 3km from the Nene Marine field, and is already in production. Eni expects the Nkala Marine 1 pre-salt exploration well...
Dubai RTA awards £110m road contracts
Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority announces that it has awarded a Dh404-million ($110 million) contract for upgrade of the Airport Road which once completed will cut the travel time on this road substantially. The project involves the construction of bridges, tunnels at Rashidiya and Airport Road interchange with each of Casablanca St, Marrakech St. and...
Carillion JV wins next phase in Dubai Trade Centre
Dubai World Trade Centre has awarded Al Futtaim Carillion (AFC) the main contract to deliver the next phase of work on the Dubai Trade Centre District (DTCD), a major development in the city’s Central Business District. This phase comprises a 178,000-sq-m development and includes two office buildings of eight and twelve storeys. The contract, worth...
BP to accelerate the Atoll field in Egypt
BP announced that it has signed a Heads of Agreement (HoA) with the Egyptian Minister of Petroleum, His Excellency Eng. Tarek El Molla, regarding the acceleration of the development of the recent Atoll gas discovery. The Atoll discovery (BP 100%) in the North Damietta Offshore Concession in the East Nile Delta, offshore Egypt was announced...