Odfjell Drilling has been awarded contracts both for the Deepsea Atlantic semi-submersible rig and for drilling services on the fixed drilling unit to be installed on the Johan Sverdup field. The rig contract includes the charter of the Deepsea Atlantic rig for three years, starting from March 2016. In addition there are six 6-months options....

UAE’s Limitless has awarded a contract worth $78 million for infrastructure work at its flagship Downtown Jebel Ali mixed-use project in Dubai. According to  the contract  UAE-based Arco General Contracting will carry out complete community infrastructure work – including roads, sewerage, utilities and lighting – in all four zones of the development, to prepare land...

Galantas Gold gets planning consent for underground gold mine expansion in Northern Ireland Northern Ireland’s Minister of Environment has granted planning consent for expansion of Galantas Gold’s underground gold mine at the Omagh site. The consent includes operating and environmental conditions, which will clear way for the company to expand activities at the mine, which...

Petrofac reported that it has won about a $900 million contract from state-controlled Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) to provide services at a field south west of Muscat. They have said it would provide engineering and procurement services at PDO’s Yibal Khuff project under the four-year contract. Oil and gas majors, hit by a oil price...

Technip 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 in Mississippi Canyon, Gulf of Mexico, in a water depth of approximately 2,000 meters. The...

Bouygues Construction’s Swiss subsidiary, Losinger Marazzi, is to design and build the LimmiViva hospital complex for the Spitalverband Limmattal hospital group. Architects BFB Architekten and Brunet Saunier Architecture have designed the project, which is being built in the town of Schlieren, near Zurich. Bouygues Entreprises FranceEurope CEO Pascal Minault said: “This contract illustrates our development...

KBR in a joint venture with Kvaerner has signed a contract with Statoil for the complete delivery of platform topsides to the Johan Sverdrup field development. The agreement to deliver the deck for the utility and living quarter (ULQ) platform comes after a tough international competition, where Kvaerner-KBR presented the best overall bid. The agreement...

Siemens has signed energy contracts worth $9bn with Egypt, including one to erect 600 wind turbines with a total generating capacity of 2GW in the Gulf of Suez and west Nile areas. In the largest deal in the Munich company’s history, Siemens will also build three natural gas power plants with the aim of increasing...

Atkins  has been appointed by the Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) to undertake fire hazard analysis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station in Japan. The Daiichi plant at Fukushima suffered major damage in the 2011 earthquake and will not reopen. Atkins will prepare a Fire Hazards Analysis for the entire Fukushima Daiichi site, which will...

Malaysia’s Tanjung Offshore has secured a construction work request contract worth USD66.6 million Petronas Carigali. The contract has been signed by its subsidiary, Tanjung Offshore Services, and involves the maintenance of Petronas Carigali’s offshore and onshore facilities in Sarawak, Malaysia. Tanjung Offshore stated that the contract duration is for two years with the option to...

Egypt has signed a  $4.6bn construction deal with Arabia Group. Egypt’s housing ministry signed a construction deal worth about 35 billion Egyptian pounds ($4.6 billion) with Egyptian real estate developer Arabia Group, a statement from the Cabinet has said. Initial agreement for the project in the Cairo suburb of 6th of October City was made...

Pöyry awarded owner’s engineer services assignment for coal-fired power plant project, Indonesia PT Tanjung Power Indonesia (TPI) has awarded Pöyry with the Owner’s Engineer services assignment for Kalsel-1 2 x 100 MW Coal Fired Power Plant Project in South Kalimantan, Indonesia. The Shareholders of TPI are PT Adaro Power and Korea East-West Power Co.,Ltd. Pöyry’s...