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Salini Impregilo wins $1.3b contract in Saudi Arabia

Salini Impregilo has won a contract in Saudi Arabia: a project worth about $1.3 billion in Riyadh with the Saudi Arabia National Guard. The project includes housing and urban planning on a large scale with the construction of 6,000 villas in an area of 7 million square metres to the east of Riyadh and more...

Vinci-led consortium awarded €400m Paris rail contract

The consortium led by VINCI Construction (Dodin Campenon Bernard, lead company; VINCI Construction France; VINCI Construction Grands Projets and Botte Fondations), together with Spie batignolles (Spie batignolles Génie Civil and Spie batignolles Fondations), has been awarded a major contract as part of the Grand Paris Express programme. The RATP (1)has selected this consortium to execute...

Wood nets 5-year LNG Ichthys contract to support INPEX in Australia

Wood wins strategic five-year engineering services contract supporting INPEX in Australia Wood has been awarded the brownfield engineering services contract for the INPEX-operated Ichthys offshore facilities, located 220 kilometres off the coast of Western Australia and onshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) processing facilities in Darwin, Northern Territory. Effective immediately, the contract is for five years...

Adnoc signs offshore concession pact with Cepsa

On behalf of the Abu Dhabi Government, the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) today signed an agreement with Cepsa, a Spanish integrated oil and gas company, awarding it a 20% stake in Abu Dhabi’s offshore Sateh Al Razboot (SARB) and Umm Lulu concession. The choice of Cepsa, which is wholly-owned by Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala...

Saipem Wins $750 Million Onshore Oman Refinery Contract

Saipem has been awarded a new contract in the onshore E&C sector worth approximately USD 750 million. Work involves engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning under Package 3 “Offsite Facilities” in the framework of the development of the Duqm Refinery situated near the coast in the north east of Oman. The contract was awarded by Duqm...

Wood Group picked for Norwegian chemical plant contract

Wood has secured a new engineering, procurement, construction management (EPCm) contract to deliver a major expansion at INOVYN’s Rafnes plant in Telemark, Norway. The company will support the Vinyl Chloride Monomer (VCM) project to increase production capacity at the onshore chemical plant by around 70 kilo tonnes a year. Detailed engineering, procurement, installation management and...

Wood wins new contract delivering mega-project for Saudi Aramco

Wood has secured a new multi-million dollar, five-year contract to support Saudi Aramco in the delivery of one of its mega-projects in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Engineering and project management services to develop the Marjan oil field in the state’s eastern province will be provided under the contract, which is effective immediately. The front...

Scotland’s BrewDog to build $30 million Brisbane brewery

Scottish craft brewer, BrewDog, announced its plans to open its much-anticipated state-of-the-art Australian brewery and HQ right on the river in Brisbane’s Murarrie area. BrewDog announced in July of last year that it had narrowed its search for a site to Newcastle and Brisbane. Following numerous scouting trips, meetings and feasibility studies, BrewDog settled on...

Samsung Engineering awarded $ 3.1 billion ADNOC refinery project

Samsung Engineering Co., Ltd announced today that it has received a letter of award (LOA) to build a Crude Flexibility Project (CFP) on behalf of ADNOC Refining in the United Arab Emirates. At a value of $ 3.1 billion, it is the ninth award in total Samsung Engineering received from ADNOC (Abu Dhabi National Oil...

Aker Solutions Wins Services Contract from Petrobras in Brazil

Aker Solutions won a contract to provide maintenance and modifications services for three platforms at Petrobras-operated oil and gas fields offshore Brazil, expanding its business in a key international market. The four-year contract is valued at about NOK 800 million and includes an option for a one-year extension. The order covers a range of services...

Acwa picked for Saudi’s first utility-scale renewable energy project

ACWA Power, the Saudi, global leader in developing, constructing and operating power generation and desalination water plants in 11 countries, has won Skaka IPP PV solar project, the first utility scale Renewable Energy plant at the oil capital, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This plant is the first of what will be a series of...

Sapura Energy bags multiple new contracts value RM905m

Sapura Energy Bhd, formerly known as SapuraKencana Petroleum Bhd, have been awarded contracts with a combined value of about RM905 million for engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning as well as transportation and installation works. Sapura Fabrication Sdn Bhd has secured three EPCC contracts for Kinarut ERB West Compressor upgrading project and Bokor Betty Brownfield &...