Technip Samsung wins contract for FLNG Project
Technip Samsung Consortium was awarded two contracts by Shell for the Browse floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) project in Australia, operated by Woodside(1). The Browse project covers the realization and installation of three FLNG units to develop the Brecknock, Calliance and Torosa fields in the Browse Basin, 425 kilometers North of Broome, Western Australia. The...
Saudi Arabia launches $1.2bn Madinah airport
Saudi Arabia launched the $1.2bn worth Prince Muhammad Bin Abdulaziz International Airport project. The airport will span an area of 4m sqm, and is the Kingdom’s first airport to be constructed and operated entirely by the private sector. The project was inaugurated by King Salman, King of Saudi Arabia, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques...
Shell Artic Oil to commence in weeks
Oil and gas giant Shell is expected to begin drilling for oil in the Arctic within the next two weeks. Thirty ships left Dutch Harbor in Alaska on Thursday for the Arctic to support two initial exploratory wells. The company has already committed about $7bn (£4.5bn) to the controversial project, and is confident it will...
Subsea 7 win EPRS Chevron, Inpex deal
Subsea 7 has said it has been awarded four contracts by Chevron and Inpex, for the engineering, procurement and construction of an emergency pipeline repair system to be used offshore Australia. This EPRS project consists of developing a process of repair, including both equipment and contingency procedures, to support the Chevron-operated pipelines and Inpex’s Ichthys...
WSP/Parsons Brinckerhoff wins Kuwait project
WSP/Parsons Brinckerhoff, the leading professional services consulting firm, has been awarded a major highway design project in Kuwait. The project involves developing concept and detailed designs to upgrade Kabd-Sulaibiya Highway in the Kuwait Metropolitan Area. It also includes preparation of tender documents and tender evaluation, followed by construction supervision assignment in the later stages, said...
Wood Group wins deal with Origin Energy
Wood Group has secured a USD $1 million contract with Origin Energy to provide detailed design engineering for the onshore pipelines related to the Halladale, Black Watch & Speculant (HBWS) Natural Gas Project in South West Victoria, Australia. The HBWS gas fields are located in the offshore Otway Basin in Victoria but due to their...
Amec Foster Wheeler wins RWE Power
Amec Foster Wheeler CFBs Selected For RWE Power Plant, Germany Amec Foster Wheeler announced that it has been selected by RWE Power AG to carry out the first stage of the design, supply, erect and commission two 550-megawatt (MWe) ultra-supercritical circulating fluidized-bed (CFB) steam generators. They will replace the existing four 300-MWe pulverized-coal units at...
Hochtief awarded Riyadh airport contract
Hochtief, the German construction group has said that it will take the technical and commercial lead in a $1.45 billion King Khaled International Airport expansion project in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Hochtief will redesign, upgrade and expand two existing terminals, and demolish and refurbish other parts of the airport infrastructure in a joint venture with Shapoorji Pallonji Mideast L.L.C....
ABB wins $85m Qatar substation contract
ABB has been awarded a contract worth around $85 million to provide turnkey substations in Qatar. This is aimed at supporting the integration of new power and seawater desalination plant in the country. Under the contract, ABB will be responsible for the design, engineering, supply, installation and commissioning of three turnkey substations, which will be...
Nakheel awards Van Oord Deira Islands deal
Master developer Nakheel said that it has appointed marine engineering contractor Van Oord to deliver 23.5km of coastline and breakwaters at Deira Islands in a deal worth $149.7 million. The contract includes beaches, quay walls, rock edges and breakwaters at Deira Islands, its new, 15.3 square km waterfront city in Dubai which Nakheel is transforming...
Applus+ awarded trio of contracts
Applus+, a global testing, inspection and certification company – through its division Applus+ RTD , the global leader in the provision of integrity technology services, which has been awarded a trio of contracts worth AUS$22.5million for work on the Ichthys LNG Project’s onshore LNG facilities. The contracts were awarded by Laing O’Rourke Australia, Monadelphous Engineering...
Italian firm wins solar project in Egypt
Italy’s Building Energy, a leader in renewable power, has signed an agreement worth $200 million to build two 50 MW photovoltaic plants in Egypt. The project was awarded by the New and Renewable Energy Authority (NREA) of the Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy of Egypt. Each plant in Benban, Upper Egypt, is expected to...