Habtoor Leighton Group lands Medical Centre, Dubai
The contract for construction of the first phase of Dubai’s Fakeeh Academic Medical Centre has been awarded to Habtoor Leighton Group (HLG). The contract has revenue of AED468m (£85m) and will be built at the free zone park at Dubai Silicon Oasis. The medical facility will comprise five ‘centres of excellence’ that specialise in diabetes...
SBM Offshore awarded Browse FLNG turret FEED
SBM Offshore is pleased to announce that Technip SA (Technip) has awarded the Company the Front-End Engineering and Design (FEED) contract for three, large-scale turret mooring systems associated with the proposed Browse Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) Development in Australia. The contract awarded to SBM Offshore covers the FEED elements of the proposed Browse FLNG...
UK’s Paragon in UAE theme Park win
UK-based Paragon Creative Ltd has been awarded a contract with Dubai Parks and Resorts to work on elements of the DreamWorks zone within the motiongate Dubai Theme Park – one of three theme parks. Paragon has said in a statement that it started working on the £5 million ($7.65 million) project in September and is...
Alstom to build USC Power Plant
Alstom has been chosen by the Consortium of Harbin Electricity International and ACWA Power as the lead EPC contractor, in consortium with Harbin Electricity International to build in Dubai the first ultra-supercritical (USC) coal power plant in the Middle East. Subject to the financing closure of the project by the development consortium composed of ACWA...
Aker Solutions and MAN Diesel & Turbo form alliance
Aker Solutions and MAN Diesel & Turbo agreed to form an alliance to develop the next generation in subsea compression systems that can be used at even the smallest oil and gas fields to increase recovery and lower costs compared with conventional platform solutions. The two companies will build on their experience and cooperation from...
Bechtel to build Gas Power Station in NY State
US engineer Bechtel has been selected to design and build a combined-cycle, electric generating facility near the town of Dover in New York State. The contract was awarded by Cricket Valley Energy, an affiliate of the privately owned Swiss company, Advanced Power. Bechtel partnered with Cricket Valley to complete project development. Bechtel will be responsible...
Contract award to Aibel for the Johan Sverdrup field
Statoil has, on behalf of the Johan Sverdrup partners, awarded Aibel in Norway the contract for construction of the converter station at Haugsneset and required construction site work for land-based power supply to the field. This is an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract covering engineering, procurement, construction site work, building of a converter station...
Fluor Awarded Kuwait’s Al-Zour Contracts
Fluor Corporation (NYSE: FLR) announced today that its joint venture team was selected by Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) as the preferred bidder for two engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) packages. Facilities in the two packages will include a variety of key process units, utilities and infrastructure for the new Al-Zour oil refinery project in...
Hill International manages tallest building, Azerbaijan
US-based Hill International has won a contract to help manage construction of the tallest building in Azerbaijan. Developer Azvil Tikinti MMC hired Hill International to provide project management consulting services in the building the planned Baku Tower, a 50-storey commercial tower in the capital, Baku. Hill International said it would be Azerbaijan’s tallest building, meaning it...
Subsea 7 awarded contract Offshore Egypt
Subsea 7 S.A. (Oslo Børs: SUBC ADR: SUBCY) announced the award of a sizeable contract to Subsea 7 by Pharaonic Petroleum Company S.A.E. for the development of the East Nile Delta Phase 3 Project (END-3). This award was the result of a competitive tender process. The project scope includes installation engineering, procurement and fabrication of...
Petrofac win Iraq Shell training contract
Petrofac has won a multi-million dollar technical training contract with Shell Iraq, achieving their fourth win with a major operator in the country. Effective from October 2015, Petrofac Training Services (PTS) has joined Shell in the management and operation of Shell’s Majnoon Training Centre in the Majnoon oil field development in Southern Iraq for two...
GE awarded Iraq turbine deal
GE has received an order from Mass Global Investment Company to provide advanced gas turbines for a new 3-gigawatt (GW) power plant in Bismayah, only 30 kilometers away from Baghdad within a major housing development project. The plant will support Baghdad and Bismayah and will be able to generate the equivalent power needed to supply...