Japan’s JGC Corp has won a contract to build shale gas facilities in Saudi Arabia for oil company Saudi Aramco industry sources familiar with the matter said. The project will involve building processing facilities, wellheads and pipelines for gas in Turaif, where a big mining project called Waad Al-Shamal is under development. The sources could...

VINCI Construction Grands Projets and Bachy Soletanche Ltd (VINCI subsidiaries), in a joint venture with Costain, have signed the contract for the East works package of the Thames Tideway Tunnel with Bazalgette Tunnel Limited, the consortium of investors that holds the concession for the project. The contract is worth €858 million (£605 million). The works...

Balfour Beatty, the international infrastructure group, announced that its joint venture with Morgan Sindall and BAM Nuttall has been awarded a £416 million contract to construct part of London’s new ‘super sewer’, the Thames Tideway Tunnel, for Bazalgette Tunnel Limited. The Thames Tideway Tunnel will ensure the capital’s sewerage system is fit to support its...

Hill International, the US based leader in managing construction risk, has received two contracts to provide programme management consultancy support services in connection with the Living Communities Programme in Saudi Arabia. The two contracts received from the Saudi Industrial Property Authority (Modon)  and together have a combined estimated value to Hill of approximately SR22.5 million...

Neste Jacobs selected by Borouge as FEED contractor for polyethylene plant modification in Ruwais, UAE Borouge, the Abu Dhabi based leading provider of innovative, value creating plastics solutions has selected Neste Jacobs, a technology, engineering and project management company as a Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) service contractor for its polyethylene plant modification project,...

Pöyry awarded extension to owner’s engineer services assignment for Ras Al Khair project, Saudi Arabia The Saline Water Conversion Company (SWCC) has awarded Pöyry with a two year extension to the owner’s engineer services assignment for the Ras Al Khair power & desalination plant in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.The project started in November 2010...

Siemens has been awarded an order for 18 turnkey substations, worth $523.3m (EUR470m), by Qatar General Water and Electricity Corporation (Kahramaa), the company announced recently. The substations are expected to meet the increasing power demand in the country. Project completion is scheduled for 2017. “We are very proud that Kahramaa has chosen our solution for...

Petroceltic International plc (AIM: PCI) (“Petroceltic”), the oil and gas production, development and exploration company focused on North Africa, the Mediterranean and Black Sea regions, is pleased to announce the launch of an invitation to tender for the provision of Engineering, Procurement and Construction (“EPC”) services in respect of the Ain Tsila gas and condensate...

Parsons has announced that they have been awarded the infrastructure design and construction supervision services contract for the Expo 2020 Dubai site, a 438-hectare landmark development consisting of multiple pavilions, souks, and entertainment venues. Parsons’ scope of work will include designing, monitoring, managing, and delivering the project’s infrastructure, it has said in a statement. The...

The Kuwait government said it had awarded a contract to build a new terminal at the country’s international airport to the same consortium that had an earlier more-expensive bid dismissed. Turkey’s Limak Holding and local construction firm Kharafi National has won the deal after bidding $4.34 billion for the work at Kuwait International Airport –...

Amec Foster Wheeler  has been awarded an extension to its existing Project Management Consultancy (PMC) contract for the UZ750 project in the Upper Zakum (UZ) oil field.  The value of the contract has not been announced. The contract was award by the Zakum Development Company (Zadco), which operates the field through a venture involving the...

Wood Group has received a letter of award for a new five year, US$ multi-million contract with Shell, to provide services to four onshore oil fields in Gabon. Wood Group PSN (WGPSN) will deliver integrated engineering, construction, maintenance and industrial services to the Rabi, Gamba, Toucan and Koula assets. Effective immediately, the award represents WGPSN’s...