Galfar wins Qatar infrastructure works deal
Qatar-based Galfar Al Misnad Engineering and Contracting has won a QR856 million ($234 million) contract from the state economic zones company (Manateq) to develop the infrastructure in the Al Wakrah logistic services area, said a report. The project covers a total area of 6.6 sq km and currently the first phase is being developed on...
Salini Impregilo signs deal for Hydropower in Georgia
Salini Impregilo has signed the contract for a US$575m (£373m) hydroelectric project in Georgia. The engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract is for the design and construction of the Nenskra hydroelectric project in the mountainous region of Svaneti, in the northwest of the country. The contract was signed at Tbilisi in the presence of Georgia’s...
Saudi Arabia inks Key Construction Contracts
Saudi Arabia has announced plans to construct nine buildings and various centres for Islamic organisations across the kingdom at an estimated cost of SR35 million ($9.32 million), said a report. Sheikh Abdulrahman Al Sanad, the chief of the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (HAIA), signed the agreement with several local construction companies, reported...
Amec Foster Wheeler Win FEED Contract in Vietnam
Amec Foster Wheeler announced the award of a Front End Engineering Design (FEED) contract by Binh Son Refining and Petrochemical Company Ltd (BSR), a subsidiary of state-owned Vietnam National Oil & Gas Group (PetroVietnam), for their Dung Quat oil refinery in Quang Ngai Province, Vietnam. The contract is part of the US$1.8 billion expansion and...
Eni discovers Gas field Offshore, Egypt
Eni has discovered a “super giant” natural gas field offshore Egypt in what the Italian oil company said is the largest find in the Mediterranean Sea. The deepwater deposit in the Zohr prospect in the Shorouk block may hold 30 Tcf of gas, equivalent to 5.5 Bboe, Eni said in an e-mailed statement. Eni, which...
Dangote Group, wins contract $1.487bn
Lagos — A Chinese firm has signed a deal worth 1.487 billion U.S. dollars with Nigeria-based cement giant Dangote Group to build cement plants in several African countries. The plants will be built by China’s Sinoma International Engineering Co., Ltd in countries including Ethiopia, Kenya, Zambia, Senegal, Niger, Mali, Cameroon, Cote D’Ivore Ghana and Nepal....
Faithful+Gould Win Cost Contract in Abu Dhabi
Leading regional development company Gulf Related has appointed Faithful+Gould to provide cost management services for Phase 1 of the $1.5 billion mixed-use development, Al Maryah Central development located on Al Maryah Island, Abu Dhabi. Phase 1 of Al Maryah Central, the 3.1 million square foot mixed-use development, will deliver a 2.3 million square foot shopping...
McDermott Wins Lump Sum Contract by Saudi Aramco
McDermott International, Inc. (NYSE:MDR) announced it has been awarded a lump sum contract by Saudi Aramco for brownfield work in various fields offshore Saudi Arabia. Work on the contract is expected to be executed through the second quarter of 2018. The award follows the June 2015 signing of a second Long Term Agreement (LTA) between...
Amec Foster Wheeler wins ISC Contract by Maersk Oil
Amec Foster Wheeler announced the award of a three year Integrated Services Contract (ISC) by Maersk Oil, an international oil and gas company and a fully-owned subsidiary of the global conglomerate, the Maersk Group. The value of the contract has not been announced. The integrated services will start in September 2015 and will run for...
Strabag Wins Singapore Sewer Contract
Singapore’s Land Transport Authority has awarded Strabag subsidiary Ed Zublin a €85m (£65m) contract to expand the city’s sewer network. The company’s pipe jacking division will install a total of 112 shafts and 9.8km of sewer pipes in two lots. The project involves pipe diameters between 300mm and 3.1m. The first lot includes rerouting the...
JV wins Duqm Waste Treatment Project
A JV of Oman’s Hasan Juma Backer Trading & Contracting and India-based Tatva Global Environment has been awarded a contract worth $20 million for the design and construction of a waste treatment facility in the Duqm Special Economic Zone. The joint venture will include the Phase One development of the waste treatment storage and disposal...
Qatar Rail Tenders Long-distance Rail Project
Qatar Rail is inviting bids for project management of the first phase of a long-distance passenger and freight railway. The scope of the work covers project and programme management, design management and construction services management. The rail network will improve connections both within Qatar and to the rest of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries,...