Hill International wins $2.4m Cairo contract
Hill International, the global leader in managing construction risk, announced that it has received a contract from Abraj Misr Company to provide project management services in connection with The Gate mixed-use complex in Cairo, Egypt. The four-year contract has an estimated value to Hill of approximately EGP 18.4 million ($2.4 million). The EGP 2.3 billion...
Jacobs win EPCM Saudi chemical contract
Jacobs has been awarded a four-year contract to provide engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services for a record-breaking chemical complex in Saudi Arabia. Sadara Chemical Company is investing about US$20bn (£12.3bn) in what is said to be the world’s largest chemical complex to ever be constructed in a single phase. The site in Jubail...
Atkins awarded decommissioning contract
Centrica Energy have awarded Atkins with a multi disciplinary pre-FEED (Front End Engineering Design) decommissioning contract. The five year agreement will see Atkins provide the UK energy company with engineering and design services. The agreement applies to any fields Centrica decides to decommission in the UK or Netherlands during the contract period. Alex Campbell, managing...
Massy Wood Group win $250m BP contract
Massy Wood Group has won a 5 year contract, with a potential value of up to $250 million, by BP to provide services to its operations in Trinidad & Tobago. The company, which is jointly owned by Wood Group PSN (WGPSN) and the energy division of Massy Holdings Limited, will deliver engineering, procurement and construction...
Arcadis to develop Jeddah transport system
Arcadis, a leading global asset design and consultancy firm, has been appointed to develop the architectural vision for a new, comprehensive public transport system in the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The appointment comes through its subsidiary Hyder Consulting and as a part of the Foster + Partners team, a statement said. Based on a...
Amec Foster Wheeler win EPC Gold Mine contract
Amec Foster Wheeler announced that it has been awarded the initial phase of an Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract by Anagold Madencilik for the expansion of the Çopler Gold Mine in the Çöpler District, Erzincan Province, Turkey. The value of the reimbursable contract has not been disclosed. The work will include detailed engineering and...
Hochtief wins $296m Qatar contract
Hochtief Solutions Middle East Qatar has been awarded a $296 million contract for construction of the central section of a new sewerage network with Qatar’s Public Works Authority. The contract is to design and build the 14.7-km tunnel was signed together with Al Sraiya Strabag for Roads and Infrastructure and Petroserv signed under the Inner...
WorleyParsons awarded Aramco contract
WorleyParsons has been awarded a contract by Saudi Aramco to provide project management services for its offshore programme. They have been managing the Offshore PMC contract for Saudi Aramco for the last 12 years, which has employed in excess of 400 people in recent years. Under the terms of the new six-year contract, WorleyParsons will...
Subsea 7 scores $300m engineering contract
Subsea 7 has been awarded a $300 million (£187m) engineering contract to support the development of a $1.6 billion Western Isles project by Dana Petroleum, the Aberdeen-based oil and gas firm. Under the deal, Subsea 7 will build and install two 1.5-mile pipeline “bundles” and a 6.8-mile gas export pipeline. The firm, which is listed in...
Jacobs wins Singapore chemical plant contract
Jacobs Engineering Group announced that it has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction management contract for the expansion program at Huntsman Corporation’s world scale polyetheramine facility in Singapore. The contract value was no disclosed. The Jurong Island facility expansion is expected to enable backward integration to produce polyethers from locally sourced feedstocks, said a...
Boeing to clinch Kuwait’s $3bn F/A-18 order
Kuwait is expected to announce an order for 28 Boeing Co F/A-18E/F Super Hornets, a $3 billion-plus deal that will keep the jets’ St. Louis production line running well into 2019, according to people familiar with the deal. Kuwait, which operates a fleet of earlier F/A-18 models, has signed a formal letter stating its firm...
Aecom win Duqm Frontier Town contract
Aecom has been awarded a contract from Duqm Development Company (DDC) to develop the feasibility study, master plan and detailed design for Phase II of the Duqm Frontier Town in Oman. The first stage of the contract includes a feasibility study and multiple concept master plans, reported the Times of Oman. Aecom will be responsible...