WorleyParsonsCord has been selected to provide fabrication, modularization and construction services in an agreement with a major exploration and production company in Canada to construct a significant oil sands mining project. The services will be led and executed by the WorleyParsonsCord Edmonton Operations location, which has been delivering construction services for several decades. With an...

Technip has been awarded by Stone Energy Corporation both a flexible pipe supply contract and an installation contract for the Amethyst field, located on Mississippi Canyon 26, in the Gulf of Mexico. The first contract includes the detailed engineering, procurement, fabrication, assembly and testing of a 5-inch production static riser (almost 9 kilometers long) as...

Hong Kong’s MTR Corporation has awarded Thales and Alstom a €330m (£246m) contract to upgrade the signalling on seven metro lines. Thales executive vice-president for transportation systems, Jean-Pierre Forestier, has described the project as the largest resignalling contract ever awarded. The extensive project will equip the seven MTR lines with the latest communications based train...

Abengoa will jointly develop the solar powered desalinationproject with AWT, the commercial arm of King Abdulaziz City of Science & Technology. Spain-based sustainability technology company Abengoa has been selected by Advanced Water Technology (AWT) to jointly develop the world’s first solar-powered desalination plant in Saudi Arabia. AWT, the commercial arm of KACST (King Abdulaziz City...

Al Jaber has been awarded the contracts  for improvements to two sections of the highway from Mafraq on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi by Abu Dhabi General Services. A subsidiary of Abu Dhabi’s Al Jaber Group has won two road-building contracts in the emirate worth about Dhs2 billion ($545 million) combined, the company said. Abu...

The contracts, awarded by ADNOC and ADCO, were awarded to Arabtec’s Target Engineering unit. Dubai’s Arabtec Holding has won two contracts in Abu Dhabi worth Dhs560 million ($152.5 million) combined through its Target Engineering unit, the builder said on Sunday. Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) has awarded a Dhs345 million contract to expand a...

Reef Residence Real Estate is  client for the project at the Al Reef Residence Tower in Jumeirah Village. The work will be carried out by Drake & Scull International subsidiary Gulf Technical Construction Company (GTCC). GTCC will provide civil, architectural, and mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) services on the high-rise tower. The scheme also includes complete...

JGC Corporation has been awarded an EPCC contract by Petronas LNG, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Malaysia’s PETRONAS. This engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning contract award is part of the expansion of the Petronas’ LNG complex in Bintulu, Sarawak, Malaysia. The contract, valued at approximately 60 billion yen, calls for the EPCC work associated with expansion...

RIO DE JANEIRO — PetroRio, has announced the signing of a purchase and sale agreement to acquire 80% of the rights and obligations of the concession contracts for the Bijupirá and Salema fields with Shell Brasil and Petrobras holding the remaining 20%. The transaction also involved the acquisition of, among other assets, the ship FPSO...

Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries said it has bagged a deal for the construction of two LNG carriers. with SK Shipping. This deal seals the remaining two vessels from the Kogas tender, launched in 2014, after another Korean shipbuilder, DSME, finalized its contracts to build four LNG carriers. Kogas will be importing 2.8 million mt per year...

A consortium of US-based CH2M Hill and UK’s  Mace have been appointed by  Dubai World Trade Centre for all real estate and construction delivery related programme management services for its Dubai Trade Centre Jebel Ali development. The master district development will also host Expo 2020 Dubai within a secure gated area when the six-month event...

Aker Solutions will provide engineering, procurement and management assistance services for five years at the Statoil-operated Johan Sverdrup development in the Norwegian North Sea. The EPMA work, valued at NOK 4.5 billion, is part of a 10-year framework accord announced in December 2013 and comes after Statoil decided to exercise an option. The assignment will...