The project to upgrade the 210km Chinsali-Nakonde road aims to improve infrastructure and services as well as reduce transport costs between northern Zambia and southern Tanzania. Work includes reconstruction of the road between Chinsali and Nakonde, as well as rehabilitation of 50km of feeder roads and construction of service stations, The project also includes other...

KBR and its wholly owned subsidiary Granherne have signed a deal to form an alliance with Subsea 7 to deliver Concept and Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) services to the global offshore oil and gas industry. The alliance will be a co-operation agreement between the companies where Granherne will support Subsea 7 on concept...

Turner & Townsend and Ramboll have teamed up with local Nepali surveyors to help assess damage hospitals in earthquake-ravaged Nepal. Four teams of structural engineers and surveyors have been deployed across Nepal to assess the damage at nine hospitals hit by the earthquakes of April and May. The work is being carried out in conjunction...

Oman’s Ministry of Regional Municipalities and Water Resources and Haya Water signed an agreement to manage, operate and maintain the wastewater facilities of the ministry for five years. The agreement was signed by Ahmed bin Mohammed al Shehi, Minister of Regional Municipalities and Water Resources on behalf of the ministry, and by Eng. Mohsen bin...

Sembcorp Marine (SCM) is pleased to announce that it has entered into an Engineering and Construction contract worth approximately USD1 billion with Heerema Offshore Services B.V. (HOS) to build a new DP3 semi-submersible crane vessel (NSCV). This follows an earlier exclusive letter-of-intent signed between SCM’s wholly owned subsidiary Jurong Shipyard Pte Ltd and HOS in...

Canadian-headquartered consultancy WSP and its Parsons Brinckerhoff subsidiary have been appointed to provide engineering services on Manchester’s “vertical village” scheme. The 1.9 ha Trinity Islands project (pictured), which is being developed by Allied London, will involve six towers grouped into two clusters on a city centre site formerly a part of an estate owned by...

Energy Recovery has won an order worth $3.96 million to deploy its PX Pressure Exchanger technology in an independent water plant located in Qurayyat, Oman. The contract was awarded by Hyflux, a global environmental solutions company headquartered in Singapore. Energy Recovery said it had previously completed additional mega projects with Hyflux, including the 500,000 million...

ABB the leading power and automation technology group stated that it has been awarded a $100-million contract by Hyundai Heavy Industries to provide power and automation solutions for oilfields off the UAE coast. The deal, which will see ABB provide power management, electrification and telecommunication solutions, is aimed at improving safety and reliability while reducing...

Technip has been awarded subsea de-commissioning and installation contract in the Gulf of Mexico. The contract was awarded by Chevron North America Exploration and Production Company, a division of Chevron U.S.A. Inc., a lump sum project for the decommissioning of the brownfield development and installation of new subsea equipment supporting a floating production system located...

Construction group Carillion has stated that one of its units has won a $124.2-million contract from BP for the construction of a residential complex at the Khazzan tight gas project site within Block 61 in  Oman. A leading integrated support services company, UK-based Carillion has a substantial portfolio of public private partnership (PPP) projects and...

Prysmian Group, world leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry, has been awarded a new contract worth around 550 euro million, for an HVDC (High Voltage Direct Current) submarine interconnector that will link Norway and the UK, by Statnett SF and National Grid NSN Link Ltd, a project specific subsidiary of National Grid...

Scatec Solar are to build new solar power plant in Mali.     Norwegian firm Scatec Solar and its partners, the Malian Ministry of Energy and Water and Electricité du Mali have signed a contract to build, own, and operate a EUR52m solar power plant near the city of Segou, Mali. The 33 MW facility is...