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Emerson nets ten-year contract with BP

Emerson and BP  have signed a global agreement for Emerson Process Management, a global business of Emerson, to after care services and automation technologies for BP’s upstream oil and gas operations. According to the Emerson press release, the new 10-year agreement extends the existing arrangement between the companies, allowing Emerson to provide an expanded scope...

Primeline has drilling contract with COSL

Primeline enters into drilling contract with COSL for two wells in East China Sea Primeline Energy Holdings, an independent China focussed oil and gas exploration and production company, has entered into a turnkey drilling contract with China Oilfield Service Ltd. (COSL) for its 2015 exploration programme of two wells in Block 33/07 in the East...

Thales and Siemens Win Spanish Rail Contract

A joint venture of Thales and Siemens has won a €34.8m (£24.7m) contract on the Chamartín-Torrejón de Velasco section of Spain’s high-speed rail network. The contract covers signalling facilities, train protection systems, fixed telecommunications and centralised traffic control, including work on the 7.3 km long Atocha-Chamartín tunnel. The 37km project will connect the Madrid-Valladolid-North high-speed...

Wood Group, Double Win with Contracts in Vietnam

Wood Group has been awarded the front end engineering and design (FEED) contract for the subsea development of the Talisman Energy Ca Rong Do field offshore Vietnam; estimated to contain around 67 million barrels of oil equivalent. Wood Group Kenny (WGK) will carry out comprehensive flow assurance studies and full FEED engineering of the subsea system and...

Kuwait issues contracts for Al-Zour refinery

Kuwait National Petroleum has issued three contracts worth US$11.5bn for the long-awaited Al-Zour oil refinery. They have been awarded for what would be Kuwait’s fourth refinery, Kuwait’s state news agency reports. A consortium including Tecnicas Reunidas, China’s Sinopec and South Korea’s Hanwha Engineering and Construction won a contract worth 1.28bn dinars to build the refinery’s main processing...

Prosafe Signs Contract Provide Safe Eurus in Brazil

Prosafe has signed a contract with Petrobras Netherlands B.V. (Petrobras) for the provision of the Safe Eurus semi-submersible vessel for safety and maintenance support offshore Brazil. The contract commencing Q1 2017 with a firm period commitment of three years will be the first for the Safe Eurus, a vessel designed and built to service the...

Planned Saudi city could create 1000’s jobs

Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province municipality is planning a model city including a residential, economic and tourism centre in Half Moon Bay, Al-Aziziyah district.  It is  expected to create up to 90,000 jobs when complete. The city is expected to contribute to the province’s master plan too, deputy mayor Eastern Province, Jamal bin Nasser Al-Mulhim, said....

Leighton Contractors wins Auckland motorway contract

NZ Transport Agency has appointed Cimic subsidiary Leighton Contractors to design and construct the Southern Corridor Improvements (SCI) project in Auckland. The project will generate revenue of approximately NZ$192m (£81m) for Leighton Contractors over the next three years. The SCI project will upgrade the Takanini Interchange and provide additional lanes on the Southern Motorway between...

Amec Foster Wheeler Wins Contract in Algeria

Amec Foster Wheeler announced the award of a contract by Sonatrach, the largest oil and gas company in Africa, to supply engineering services for the de-bottlenecking of the Hassi R’Mel gas field, located approximately 550 kilometres south of Algiers. The value of the consultancy contract, to be delivered by experts in Amec Foster Wheeler’s Reading...

Saipem consortium wins $1.57bn Kuwait contract

Italy’s Saipem and another firm have been awarded a new $1.57 billion contract for work on its planned Al-Zour oil refinery in Kuwait, the state the news agency Kuna reported today. The 45-month contract, valued at KD475.32 million ($1.57 billion), was the lowest offer submitted in the tender, Khalid Al-Asousi, spokesman of state-run Kuwait National...

Jacobs Engineering win contract in Malaysia

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (NYSE:JEC) announced it has been awarded two contracts by Hyundai Engineering Co., Ltd. (HEC) to provide engineering services for the balance of plant facilities and the cooling water intake and discharge system respectively for a 2,000MW ultra-super-critical, coal-fired power generation project in Port Dickson, about 60 kilometers south of Kuala Lumpur...

Oman Drydock wins $10m steel structure contract

Oman Dry Dock Company  has been awarded a $10m contract to provide Rabab Harweel project of the Consolidated Contractors Company (CCC) with super steel structures. Rabab Harweel is one of Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) oilfields near the Wilayat of Duqm in Oman. Implementation for the project will start next October with the participation of more...