Bouygues and Lend Lease sign deal
A joint venture team of Lend Lease and Bouygues has scooped a AU$2.6bn (£1.34bn) contract for the design and construction of the NorthConnex motorway in Sydney, Australia. The team was announced as the preferred tenderer in March 2014 Work involves the construction of a 9km twin tunnel link from the southern end of the M1...
ABB Wins LNG Contract
ABB has received an order to deliver advanced electrical propulsion systems for four LNG carriers under construction by Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding (Group) Co. Ltd. The LNG carriers are a joint venture between China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC), China LNG Shipping (Holdings) Ltd (CLNG) and Teekay. The LNG carriers will operate under 20-year time-charter contracts with...
10,000 expat affordable homes for Dubai
10,000 residential units have been allocated by Dubai Municipality in its Dh30-billion Desert Rose master development for affordable housing for expatriates, according to a senior government official. The new ‘satellite city’, located between Al Ruwaya and Al Aweer areas across the Emirates Road, will cover an area of 4,000 hectares and house 160,000 inhabitants on...
Emas AMC landed offshore contracts
Ezra Holdings Limited (“Ezra” or “the Group”), a leading contractor and provider of integrated offshore solutions to the oil and gas industry, today announced that the Group’s Subsea Services division, EMAS AMC, has secured multiple contracts from various energy companies valued at more than US$65 million (including options). Scope of work includes project management, engineering,...
Exova Group win Doha Metro contracts
Exova Group has won three major contracts to conduct materials testing and fire safety engineering for the new Doha Metro in Qatar. Worth over £3.7 million ($5.57 million), the contracts will see Exova deliver a programme of materials testing for key infrastructure, as well as specialist fire strategy and consultancy, said a statement from Excova....
Thai rail construction to start
Construction on a $12 billion Chinese-backed railway through Thailand will begin in September, as part of a grand vision to overhaul the country’s notoriously creaking network, officials said. “The first two phases will start by September or October at the latest this year and will take around two-and-a-half years to complete,” Thailand’s Transport Minister Prajin...
Total wins new Abu Dhabi Concession
Total has signed an agreement to take a 10 per cent stake in a new 40-year onshore concession in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Nine Asian and western firms had bid for stakes in the Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Oil Operations (Adco) concession after a deal with western oil majors dating...
Gulf firms invited for Tahiti project
French Polynesia has sought expressions of interest from firms in the Middle East about delevoping a hospitality project in Tahiti, estimated to cost between $1-2bn. The overseas collectivity is implementing a policy to revitalise tourism in the island, which in the first instance, has lead to the formation of the Tahiti Mahana Beach Project in...
Italian HS construction contract wins
Italian Railway Network (RFI) has signed two contracts for civil works on new high-speed lines in northern Italy. Cepav, a consortium of Saipem (52%), Società Italiana Condotte d’Acqua (12%), G Maltauro (12%), and Pizzarotti (24%), has been awarded a €768m contract to carry out civil works on the Brescia – Verona high-speed line. This €3.95bn...
Al Turki $42m Oman construction win
High-profile ocean front mixed-use destination, The Wave in Muscat has awarded a RO16.2 million ($42 million) contract to leading developer Al Turki Enterprises for the construction of 99 villas, a report said. “Reehan Residences, is one of our greenest precincts in the master plan and with 90 per cent sold out following the launch in...
Shell signs deal for petro plant, Iraq
Royal Dutch Shell has signed a deal with Iraq worth $11 billion (7 billion pounds) to build a petrochemicals plant in the southern oil hub of Basra, Industry Minister Nasser al-Esawi said on Wednesday. Esawi told a press conference in Baghdad the Nibras complex , which is expected to come on line within five to...
Boskalis & Van Oord Jakarta win
Boskalis and Van Oord are to construct an artificial island off the coast of Jakarta, Indonesia. Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) and joint venture partner Van Oord have been awarded a contract by PT Muara Wisesa Samudra to design and construct the artificial island for the Dredging and Land Development Works for Pluit City off...