Pöyry awarded gas-fired cogeneration power plant project in Thailand
Global Power Synergy Public Company Limited (GPSC) has awarded Pöyry with an owner’s engineer services assignment for Central Utility Plant 4, Phase 1 (CUP4.1), a 48 MW, 140 t/h gas-fired cogeneration power plant project in Rayong, Thailand. This first phase of the project will consist of one gas turbine, one heat recovery steam generator(HRSG) with...
GE JV awarded $320m South Korean transmission contract
GE Power has been awarded a $320 million contract through its joint venture, KAPES, by Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) to provide equipment and expertise to deliver a 4 GW HVDC transmission link from the power complex located East of South Korea, to Seoul’s metropolitan area that represents around 40% of global Korean energy demand....
North sea exploration success for BP
BP today announced two new exploration discoveries in the North Sea. The discoveries are Capercaillie, in Block 29/4e in the Central North Sea, and Achmelvich, in Block 206/9b west of Shetland. BP is 100% owner of Capercaillie and the Achmelvich well partnership comprises BP (operator, 52.6%), Shell (28%) and Chevron (19.4%). Both wells were drilled...
BESIX to build giant thermal waste recycling plant in Dubai
BESIX to build one of the world’s largest thermal waste recycling plants in Dubai. This ambitious “Waste to Energy” project is a major step in BESIX Group’s diversification strategy, positioning it as a partner of choice in achieving the United Arab Emirate’s environmental protection and sustainable development goals. This build, operate and transfer (BOT) contract...
McDermott awarded Saudi Aramco EPCI contract
McDermott International, Inc. announced a large* contract award from Saudi Aramco for the engineering, procurement, construction and installation of 13 jackets in the Zuluf, Marjan, Berri and Abu Safah fields, offshore Saudi Arabia. McDermott has more than 50 years’ experience in these fields and this is the fourth fast-track project to be awarded by Saudi...
KBR wins ammonia plant contract in Nigeria
KBR, Inc. announced that it has been awarded a contract from Indorama Eleme Fertilizer & Chemicals Limited (Indorama) and Toyo Engineering Corporation (Toyo) for the Train 2 ammonia plant at Indorama’s Port Harcourt site in Nigeria. Under the terms of the contract, KBR will provide technology licensing, basic engineering design, proprietary equipment and catalyst for...
Abu Dhabi’s NPCC wins $327m offshore contract in India
National Petroleum Construction Company (NPCC), part of Senaat Abu Dhabi, has won an EPC contract for 5 Well Platforms and Pipeline for Ratna field from ONGC as part of Offshore Oil & Gas Infrastructure development on the west coast of India. NNPCC, a leading international EPC contractor, provides Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Installation and Commissioning services...
Gammon wins £705m of Hong Kong contracts
Gammon Construction Limited has been awarded a HK$6.2 billion contract by the Highways Department, HKSAR to construct the Kai Tak West Section of the Central Kowloon Route in Hong Kong. The Kai Tak West Section contract includes the construction of a 370m-long underwater tunnel and the associated temporary reclamation in Kowloon Bay of about 3...
Laing O’Rourke secure Expo 2020 Dubai contracts
Laing O’Rourke will build Expo 2020’s Leadership and Media Pavilions, and the event’s ‘Hammerhead’ access road to Al Wasl Plaza. In addition, Laing O’Rourke will deliver landscaping and associated mechanical, electrical and plumbing works. With a diameter of 150m, Al Wasl Plaza will form the centrepiece of Expo 2020’s 4.38sqkm site in Dubai South. It...
Mott MacDonald picked for Australian rail scheme
An alliance of the South Australian Government Department of Planning, Transport, and Infrastructure (DPTI), McConnell Dowell, Arup and Mott MacDonald has been formed to design and construct a project to grade separate the Oaklands rail crossing on the Seaford train line, approximately 13km south of Adelaide. The current level crossing generates congestion on busy Morphett...
Wood wins multi-million dollar GlaxoSmithKline contract in Germany
Wood is providing GSK Vaccines GmbH (GSK), part of GlaxoSmithKline Group, with engineering, procurement and construction management services for a new biotech facility to be built in Marburg, Germany. The new multi-million dollar contract includes detailed design, procurement and subcontracting services, expediting and inspection of process equipment and packages, construction management, coordination of commissioning, engineering...
Odfjell picked for a contract with Kuwait Oil Company (KOC)
Odfjell Well Services has signed a contract with Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) to provide tubular running services, downhole drilling tools, drillpipe, pressure control and wellbore clean up equipment for all KOC drilling and workover operations. Odfjell Well Services is one of three successful bidders selected to provide these services both onshore and offshore. Currently there...