Turner & Townsend win contract at African Airport
Turner & Townsend has won the project management contract for the extension of platforms at the main train station servicing Africa’s busiest airport. The platforms at the Gautrain Station at OR Tambo International Airport, near Johannesburg in South Africa, will be lengthened to accommodate four-carriage trains – doubling the current passenger capacity. The scheme includes...
FMC Technologies wins Mexico Shell deal
FMC Technologies, Inc., the provider of technologies and services to the oil and gas industry, has received a contract award from Shell Offshore, Inc. for its Appomattox deepwater development in the Gulf of Mexico. Under the agreement, FMC Technologies will provide enhanced vertical deepwater trees, subsea manifolds, topside controls, a control system, and a distribution...
Al Futtaim JV $137m Doha Festival City deal
A joint venture including Al-Futtaim Engineering’s Qatar operations has won a QR500 million ($137.2 million) contract related to the Doha Festival City project. Hamad and Mohamad Al-Futtaim and Voltas Qatar has been awarded the mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) contract for the shopping mall which is expected to be completed by 2016. Doha Festival City...
Petrofac wins Bahrain gas plant facility
Petrofac’s Offshore Projects and Operations business has been awarded a contract from Bahrain’s Tatweer Petroleum to supply a new gas dehydration facility. The new contract will see the installation of a new 500 MMSCFD Gas Dehydration Facility which will be the first of a series of planned gas capacity projects scheduled for the next three...
Wood Group wins Peregrino contract from Statoil
On behalf of the Peregrino licence partners, Statoil is awarding a contract to Wood Group to provide four-year operations and maintenance for our two wellhead platforms (Alpha and Bravo) and modification services for both units and the FPSO Peregrino. The contract’s scope includes offshore services and covers all production processes and equipment except drilling services...
Al Hassan Engineering wins $20m contracts
The Oman-based company, Al Hassan Engineering Group has won construction contracts worth $20 million relating to energy-related projects from the Gulf region, said a report. Its subsidiary Al Hassan Engineering Company has won a $12-million deal from Petroleum Develpment Oman (PDO) for the implementation of the ‘Mabrouk Pipeline Construction Project,’ reported the Oman Observer, citing...
Amec Foster Wheeler win contracts from CERN
Amec Foster Wheeler announced the award of a series of contracts from CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, to carry out radiochemical testing. The work, which began earlier this year and is ongoing, involves characterisation of waste components taken from high energy accelerators including the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest particle accelerator....
Bahrain, Saudi sign $300m new oil pipeline deals
Bahrain and Saudi Arabia have signed contracts worth approximately $300m to lay a new 350,000-barrel per day (bpd) oil pipeline between the two countries, with the link due to be operational in 2018, Bahrain’s Energy Minister said yesterday. Bahrain relies on output from the Abu Safa oil field that it shares with Saudi Arabia for...
Bouygues signs UK’s biggest ever building contract
Bouygues, the French construction contractor, has signed the UK’s biggest ever building contract to deliver phase three of the Battersea Power Station redevelopment. In spite of submitting the highest price bid it beat rival short listed bidder Balfour Beatty for the complex residential job, which will consist of 1,305 Gehry and Foster + Partners designed...
Modec wins Culzean contract
Modec has signed a contract with Maersk Oil North Sea UK Ltd to supply a Floating Storage and Offloading (FSO) vessel for the Culzean development project in the North Sea. This FSO will be deployed at the field approximately 145 miles off the coast of Aberdeen in water depth of around 295 feet. The Culzean...
ISS wins new Asia-Pacific contract with Cheniere
Inchcape Shipping Services (ISS), the world-leading marine, cargo and supply chain solutions provider, has won a new hub agency contract for the Asia-Pacific with LNG energy giant, Cheniere Energy. Under the two-year contract they will manage approximately 100 port calls annually for Cheniere Energy across the Asia-Pacific, with the first already successfully completed in China....
GCC construction firms hiring despite oil slump
Construction companies in the Gulf region are on the look out for skilled staff across most roles and specialisations in spite of the oil slump, according to a panel of company directors from the construction sector who spoke at a leading industry event held in Dubai. There is a continued need for skilled staff in...