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PEMEX Awards Offshore Engineering To Wood Group

Wood Group has been awarded a three-year offshore engineering blanket order by PEMEX Procurement International for field development in Mexico’s Gulf of Mexico waters. The agreement, valued at up to US$28 million, encompasses deepwater and complex shallow water concept and basic engineering, and owner engineer services. Work will be performed by Wood Group Kenny and Wood Group...

Italy’s Fata inks $543m Iran power deal

Italy’s Fata, the engineering unit of the industrial group Finmeccanica, has signed a 500 million euro contract with Ghadir Investment Company to build a power plant in Iran. According to a spokesman for the company, the deal was signed during Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni’s visit to Tehran earlier this week at the head of...

Brookfield Multiplex wins $1bn Al Maryah contract

Abu Dhabi-based developer Gulf Related has announced the appointment of Brookfield Multiplex (BM) as the main contractor for its $1.0bn Al Maryah Central mixed-use retail development project on Al Maryah Island in Abu Dhabi. The $425m construction contract will see BM build a 214,000m2 mall that upon completion in March 2018 will host two US...

Amec Foster Wheeler awarded UK MOD Contract

Amec Foster Wheeler Awarded Three-Year Nuclear Services Contract For UK Ministry Of Defence Amec Foster Wheeler announced the award of a contract by the UK Ministry of Defence’s (MOD) Defence Nuclear Safety Regulator (DNSR) to supply independent regulatory services across the entire spectrum of their activities. DNSR is part of the MOD’s Defence Safety Authority...

Qatar to gain from Vietnam Petrochem JV

The $4.6bn Long Son Petrochemical Project in Vietnam’s Ba Ria-Vung Tau province could help boost economic contributions of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) countries to Qatar, Thailand Ambassador Piroon Laismit said. He said the “trilateral project,” which is being built on a 400-hectare complex inside the Long Son Industrial Zone, is a joint venture...

ALEC wins UAE school construction deal

ALEC has been awarded the design-and-build contract for The New Jebel Ali School in Dubai, UAE  It will be located within the Akoya by Damac development and  have a total plot size of 32,000 sqm and a gross floor area (GFA) of 20,000 sqm. The Dubai-headquartered contractor has revealed that it will directly engage Broadway Malyan...

Vinci inks deal for Canadian Bypass

Vinci has finalised the CA$1.9bn (£926m) deal announced in June to build the Regina Bypass in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. The highway will be built under a public-private partnership (PPP) contract with a term of 30 years (link opens in new tab). It will be the province’s first transport infrastructure project to be built...

BAM picked for Microsoft Office in Ireland

Royal BAM Group announced yesterday (4 August) that its Irish subsidiary BAM Building had been awarded a contract by Microsoft Ireland to construct an office facility worth more than $110m. What Microsoft’s new Irish base will look like (Source: Microsoft) A spokesperson for the Dutch company said that its agreement with Microsoft prevented it from...

LR Senergy wins $7m Middle East deals

LR Senergy,  the Aberdeen-headquartered firm announced that it has been awarded a number of contracts worth a combined $7 million in the Middle East, Europe and Asia (MEA) as it continues to adapt to the difficult and changing market conditions. They have provided its services globally, and the majority of its work has historically taken...

Atkins Solutions wins Wind Turbine Challenge

Atkins is one of the three winners of a Statoil challenge designed to develop new concepts for installation of the Hywind floating wind turbine system. The chosen designs by Atkins, Modec and Ulstein are now undergoing further study to help bring the winning concepts to maturity. The Innovation Challenge looked to other companies within the...

Bechtel wins FEED for U.S. first FLNG vessel

Bechtel has been selected by Delfin LNG, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fairwood Peninsula Energy Corporation, to perform front-end engineering and design for the first U.S.-based floating liquefied natural gas vessel (FLNGV) to go into service at Port Delfin. Port Delfin is a proposed deepwater port and floating LNG facility that will be located approximately 50...

BW Gas wins Egypt Gas Terminal deal

BW Gas,  the Norwegian-Singaporean gas shipping giant has won a bid to provide Egypt with a floating Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) vessel for five years, the Petroleum Ministry reported. The ship will be delivered to Egypt’s shores in September, said Khaled Abdel Badee, the Chairman of the state’s Egyptian Natural Gas holding company, according to a...