Alstom Wins Power Plant Contract in Nigeria
Alstom will provide four 175 MW Francis turbine-generator sets and related equipment. Alstom Hydro China (AHC) is responsible for the equipment design, manufacturing, supervision to the installation, commissioning, testing as well as site services, Alstom said. Located on the middle and upper reaches of River Kaduna near Zungeru in Niger state, Zungeru Hydropower Project will...
KBR awarded Construction contract in Alberta
KBR, Inc. (NYSE: KBR) announced today that it has received an award associated with the Fort Hills Oil Sands Mining Project. KBR won a reimbursable contract to provide construction services at the facility located 90 kilometers north of Fort McMurray, Alberta. KBR’s scope includes onsite construction management and direct hire field construction services at the...
DRA wins Gold deal for Ad Duwayhi mine
Engineering group DRA has won a contract with Saudi Arabia’s mining group Ma’aden Gold and Base Metals (MGBM) for the Ad Duwayhi gold mine, according to the recent report. The mining project, located 450km southwest of Riyadh, will be performed using open-pit methods, said the Saudi Gazette report. The operation will have a conventional gold...
Bauer wins its largest ever contract
Bauer has won a site remediation contract worth over €100m (£70m) – the group’s largest single contract to date. The contract involves remediation at a former landfill in Germany close to the French and Swiss borders. The project will be carried out by Bauer Umwelt, a specialist subsidiary of Bauer Resources. The Kesslergrube site in...
Siemens wins Qatar Sub-station contract
Siemens, a global technology powerhouse, said it has won a major contract from the Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation (Kahramaa) for the turnkey construction of three substations in Qatar in addition to a deal to supply air-insulated switchgear. As per the deal, the company will supply three 132/11 kV substations as part of Phase...
Habtoor Leighton Group wins Abu Dhabi contract
The Habtoor Leighton Group (HLG) has been awarded a contract with revenue of AED 263 million (AUD 96 million) for the construction in Abu Dhabi of Khalifa Industrial Zone (Kizad) Area A Secondary Infrastructure (Phase 1B) for Abu Dhabi Ports. HLG, operating as Leighton Contracting Abu Dhabi LLC, will be responsible for the construction of...
Keppel wins $684m FLNG Golar contract
Keppel Shipyard Limited has been awarded a contract worth in the region of $684 million with Golar Gandria N.V., a subsidiary of Golar LNG Limited, to perform the conversion of a Moss type Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) carrier, the Gandria, into a Golar Floating Liquefaction (GoFLNG) facility. According to the press release, the contract will...
Astaldi lands £765m St Petersburg contract
A 50-50 joint venture of Astaldi and IC Ictas has signed a €1.1bn (£765m) contract to build 140km of the Moscow to St Petersburg motorway in Russia. The Italian and Turkish contractors will carry out the design and construction of two lots of the motorway. The joint venture will work as general contractor and on...
Technip awarded PMC contract
Technip has been awarded by TAP(1) a Project Management Consultancy (PMC) Services contract, for a project designed to transport gas from the Shah Deniz field to the European market. TAP project scope includes an approximately 870 kilometer long pipeline, which will start from the tie-in with the TANAP(2) portion of the Southern Gas Corridor project,...
Italian firm wins Qatar infrastructure deal
The Italian firm, Salini Impregilo has been awarded a €300 million ($332 million) contract for the construction of primary urban infrastructure in Shamal, a residential area 100km from Doha, Qatar. Salini Impregilo, part of the consortium created with Bin Omran of Qatar, has said that it beat three competitor consortiums from the Gulf area, Asia...
Eni discovers gas in Egyptian Nile delta
This discovery is the result of the new Eni’s strategy to re-focus its activity on near field and incremental exploration opportunities with high potential value, which allow in case of success their quick exploitation through the already existing and synergic nearby infrastructures. Eni has made an important gas discovery in the Nooros exploration prospect, located...
Rolls-Royce wins Saudia engine contract
Rolls-Royce has said that it had been selected by Saudi Arabian airline Saudia to provide engine maintenance and servicing for its Trent 700 engines on 20 A330 aircraft under a long-term contract worth $1.3 billion. The British engineering company, which has been under pressure after successive profit warnings, said it also won a contract was...