ABB, has won an order worth $155 million from Norway’s Statoil to supply systems and equipment to two HVDC converter stations linking the recently discovered Johan Sverdrup offshore field with the onshore grid. The contract has been booked in the first quarter of 2015. Oil production at Johan Sverdrup, located west of Stavanger on the...

KBR, Inc.  announced that it has been awarded a project management contract by Saudi Aramco to provide project management services for Saudi Aramco’s offshore program. Under the terms of this six-year contract, KBR will provide project management and engineering services for existing and new offshore facilities to maintain and increase crude production levels to meet...

Istanbul’s municipal authority has given the go-ahead for a three-level, sub-sea mega tunnel project.  The estimated US$3.5bn scheme was recently announced by Turkey’s prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu The mega-project will have a three-storey, sub-sea tunnel under Istanbul’s Bosphorus Strait, which will connect the city’s two sides with one railway and two highways. The project was the...

UK companies expect to create thousands of oil & gas jobs over the next two years despite the dramatic slide in oil prices. A Bank of Scotland oil and gas report found that 39% of respondents said the price falls had affected investment. However, when the estimates of net job gains and losses were collated, 8,000...

China Harbour Engineering Company wins a $40.8-million marine and infrastructure works contract from Al Hamra Real Estate at its Falcon Island project in Ras Al Khaimah (RAK) UAE. Designed to house the first Leed (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Platinum certified real estate of its kind in the Gulf, Falcon Island will feature 150 of...

Alstom has been awarded two contracts worth $84.7m to supply the signaling system and infrastructure for Phase 4A of the Cairo Metro Line 3 which will eventually extend from the northwest of Greater Cairo to Cairo International Airport. The contracts were signed recently with Egypt’s National Authority for Tunnels (NAT). The Cairo Metro carries more...

Cofely Besix Facility Management, a leading facilities management provider has been awarded a three-year contract by Abu Dhabi Ports Company for the maintenance of the Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi (Kizad) in the UAE. Kizad is the flagship project of Abu Dhabi Ports Company, and consists of a world-class offshore port, and an integrated industrial...

Aecom has been announced as the preferred bidder to carry out the detailed design of the AU$565m (£287m) Mackay Ring Road Stage 1 in Queensland, Australia. The work is part of a AU$8.5bn investment to upgrade the Bruce Highway. “Mackay is one of Queensland’s fastest growing regions and this project will improve the local road...

Abu Dhabi Co. for Onshore Oil Operations ADCO, through a subcontractor, has let a contract to Al Hassan Engineering Co. Abu Dhabi LLC to provide work related to increasing crude oil processing capabilities as part of ADCO’s Phase 3 development of onshore Rumaitha and Shanayel fields in United Arab Emirates’ Northeast Bab asset. Under the...

Pöyry win engineering services assignments for 12 gas fired combined cycle power plant projects in Thailand. Toyo Engineering Corporation has awarded Pöyry with engineering services assignments for nine 120 MW and three 130 MW gas fired combined cycle power plant projects in Thailand. The owner of the projects is Gulf MP Company Ltd., who has...

Foster and Partners, the UK based leading architecture firm, has been awarded the contract to design the stadium that will host the final of the Fifa 2022 World Cup in Qatar, the  report said. The stadium, which will have a seating capacity for 80,000, will be built in the purpose-built city of Lusail, 15 km...

SNC-Lavalin  announced that Kentz Corporation, a member of the SNC-Lavalin Group, has been awarded two sustaining capital contracts by a major oil company in the Middle East, with an anticipated combined value of over $500 million. The project award follows the acquisition of Kentz by SNC-Lavalin on August 22, 2014. The acquisition of one of...