Hill secures US$4.4m Cairo Metro Project
Hill International has received a contract from the European Investment Bank, financed under the European Union’s Neighbourhood Investment Facility, to provide project management and technical assistance support services for the Cairo Metro – Line 3 project. The six-year contract has an estimated value to Hill of approximately USD4.4 million. The Egyptian National Authority for Tunnels...
Baker Hughes win Zohr Gas Field work
Baker Hughes, a GE company, announced a major subsea contract from Petrobel for phase two of the “supergiant” Zohr Gas Field situated in the Mediterranean Sea, off the Egyptian coast. The project underscores the company’s position as the world’s first and only integrated fullstream provider of cutting-edge subsea technology, products, services and digital solutions. As...
Add Energy awarded £1m BP contract in Egypt
Add Energy, the international energy consultancy provider, has been awarded a maintenance build contract worth more than £1 million with BP for work on West Nile Delta (WND), a development located just off the north coast of Egypt. The contract, worth almost £1.4 million, will see Add Energy carry out the development of a full...
Bechtel wins major petchem projects in Egypt
Bechtel, a global leader in engineering, procurement, and construction, announced that the company has been awarded two contracts by Carbon Holdings of Egypt: one to provide project management services for the Tahrir Petrochemicals Complex at Ain Sokhna, Egypt, and one to build two new polypropylene units at an adjacent site. In its project management role,...
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AmecFW win Steam Reformer Heater contract, Egypt
Amec Foster Wheeler announces today the award of a contract by The National Company for Fertilizers & Chemicals (AGROCHEM) to supply material and detailed engineering for a steam reformer heater for its fertiliser facility in Alexandria, Egypt. The steam reformer heater, based on Amec Foster Wheeler’s Terrace WallTM design, will operate as the primary reformer...
CFLD Secures First Project in Africa
CFLD has been awarded the contract to build a new industrial city in Egypt’s new administrative capital. The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signing ceremony between the President of CFLD International Zhao Hongjing, Mostafa Madbouly, Egypt’s Minister of Housing, Utilities and Urban Development and Dalia Khorshid, Minister of Investment in Cairo, was witnessed by the Egypt’s...
Subsea 7 awarded contract offshore Egypt
Subsea 7 S.A. announced the award of a substantial(1) contract, offshore Egypt, by Pharaonic Petroleum Company to be executed at water depths of over 900 metres in the Atoll field. The contract scope includes the engineering, procurement, construction and installation of more than 40 kilometres of rigid pipelines and associated structures for the new Atoll field,...
Aker wins mega Zohr Gas Field contract
Aker Solutions has won a contract to deliver its longest-ever umbilicals system at the Zohr offshore gas field in the Egyptian part of the Mediterranean Sea. The agreement with Petrobel in Egypt is worth more than NOK 1 billion and will be booked in the second quarter. It stipulates the delivery of 180 kilometers of...
ENGIE signs energy agreements with Egypt
On the occasion of the State Visit of President François Hollande of France and the French Republic to Egypt, Isabelle Kocher, Deputy CEO and Chief Operating Officer of ENGIE, has signed today two energy agreements. Firstly, a cooperation agreement for further development of renewable energy with the National Renewable Energy Association (NREA) and the Egyptian Electricity Transport Company...
Vinci and Bouygues land Cairo metro contract
The joint venture led by VINCI Construction Grands Projets, alongside Bouygues Construction’s subsidiary Bouygues Travaux Publics and their Egyptian partners Orascom Construction and Arabco Contractors, has won the Phase 3 contract for Line 3 of the Cairo metro. The President of the Arab Republic of Egypt, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, and the President of the French...
Subsea 7 awarded contract offshore Egypt
Subsea 7 S.A. announced today the award of a major(1) contract by BP, and partner DEA (Deutsche Erdoel AG), for the development of the Giza, Fayoum and Raven subsea fields offshore Alexandria, Egypt. This is the second phase of the West Nile Delta project, where the field development will be at depths of up to approximately...