Fluor teams up with Sacyr
Fluor is selling half the shares in its Spanish business to Sacyr to create a new joint operation that will carry out both project management and construction work in Europe, North Africa and South America. It has signed an agreement to divest 50% of the Fluor SA to multinational Spanish construction company Sacyr Industrial....
Mapna to build major power plant in Iraq
Mapna, the Iranian industrial group has been awarded the engineering, procurement and installation contract for the $2.5 billion natural gas-fired power plant project in the Rumaila area of Basra, Iraq. Work has started after 18 months of negotiations with the Iraqi government. The plant is expected to add 3,000 MW of electricity to the Iraqi national...
Sacyr wins Columbian Concession Contract
Colombia’s National Infrastructure Agency (ANI) has awarded a team led by Sacyr the construction and concession contract for the Pasto-Rumichaca motorway. The scheme, which is part of the country’s ‘Fourth Generation’ programme of new motorways will be carried out by the Estructura Plural SAC 4G consortium, led by Sacyr Concesiones (60%) and Herdoiza Crespo (40%)....
Saudi Arabia approves $282m contracts
Saudi Arabia has approved contracts worth SR1.06 billion ($282.27 million) for 168 municipal projects in 14 governorates, the Saudi Press Agency has reported. The projects include storm water drainage systems, walkways, environmental health projects, seafront development and construction of municipal buildings and public facilities as well as several consultancy contracts. Of these, projects worth a...
Subsea 7 win BP contract offshore Egypt
Subsea 7 announced they have been awarded of a contract with a value of about $500 million by BP, and partner DEA, for the development of the Taurus and Libra subsea fields offshore Alexandria, Egypt. The contract is the first phase of Egypt’s West Nile Delta project, where field development will be at depths of...
Balfour Beatty wins Denver Rail Project
Balfour Beatty Infrastructure has won a US$140m (£90m) two-phased contract to design and build the Southeast Rail Extension in the US city of Denver The decision to award the contract was taken during this week’s meeting of the board of directors of Denver’s Regional Transportation District. The Balfour Beatty team also includes Parsons Brinckerhoff, Capitol...
Samsung wins $2.46bn Qatar power plant deal
Samsung C&T Corp, has won a 2.87-trillion won ($2.46 billion) contract to build a power plant in Qatar, a report has said. The contract calls for the construction of a combined thermal power plant with a capacity of 2,520 MW, about 15 km from the Qatari capital Doha, Yonhap news agency said quoting from Samsung...
Wood Group wins contract from Woodside
Wood Group has secured a new contract to carry out front-end engineering and design (FEED) for the Woodside operated proposed Browse Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) Development, offshore Western Australia. Wood Group Kenny (WGK) will perform all design engineering for the insulated production flowline system required for the asset’s offshore gas-condensate fields – Brecknock, Calliance and Torosa...
Technip wins contract for PETRONAS FLNG
Technip has been awarded an engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning contract by PETRONAS Carigali for the tie-in of PETRONAS first Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (PFLNG1) facility to KAKG-A platform in Kanowit field, located 200 kilometers offshore Bintulu, East Malaysia, at a water depth of approximately 80 meters. The contract covers the procurement and installation...
Kuwait awards $11.5bn refinery contracts
Kuwait National Petroleum Company has awarded KD3.48 billion ($11.5 billion) worth of contracts to build its planned Al Zour refinery, Kuwaiti state news agency Kuna has recently reported. KNPC commissioned a consortium including Spain’s Tecnicas Reunidas, China’s Sinopec and South Korea’s Hanwha Engineering and Construction to build the main process units of the refinery. That...
Amec Foster Wheeler wins contract in Poland
Amec Foster Wheeler Wins Second CFB Combined Heat And Power Plant Contract In Poland Amec Foster Wheeler announced the award of a contract by Fortum Zabrze S.A. for the design, supply, construction and commissioning for a new multi-fuel circulating fluidized-bed (CFB) steam generating combined heat and power (CHP) plant in Zabrze, in Southern Poland. The...
Drake & Scull wins MEP Kuwait deal
Drake & Scull International, a leader in construction, has announced that its subsidiary Drake & Scull Engineering Kuwait, has secured an MEP contract worth Dh218 million ($59.3 million) for an educational institution. The contract also brings up Drake & Scull International’s total project awards in 2015 year to date to Dh1.57 billion in value. Under...