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Wood wins contract to expand Tasiast gold mine in Mauritania

Wood is providing engineering, procurement and construction management services to Kinross Gold Corporation (Kinross Gold) for the Phase Two expansion of the Tasiast gold mine in Mauritania. The award follows Wood’s early involvement in the project executing the feasibility study for the Phase Two expansion and reinforces the company’s longstanding global leadership in the development...

KBR Awarded EPCM Contract by BOC to Develop Majnoon Field in Iraq

KBR has been awarded a contract by Basra Oil Company (BOC) for the development of the Majnoon Oil Field in Basra, Iraq. Under the terms of the contract, KBR will provide overall project management, multi-discipline engineering support, procurement and construction management services to BOC under a two plus one year extendable service contract. “KBR has...

Jacobs wins new BP Khazzan project in Oman

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. has been selected by BP to provide engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services for the Phase 2 of the Khazzan Project in the Sultanate of Oman. Under the terms of the three-year contract, Jacobs will continue to deliver engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services in support of the project,...

AmecFW wins EPCM Gold Mine Turkey contract

Amec Foster Wheeler announces today it has been awarded a reimbursable Engineering, Procurement and Construction Management (EPCM) contract by Anagold Madencilik for the Çöpler Sulfide Expansion Project to expand and extend the life of the Çöpler Gold Mine in the Çöpler District, Erzincan Province, Turkey. Amec Foster Wheeler’s scope of work will include detailed engineering,...

AmecFW awarded Singapore EPCM contract

Amec Foster Wheeler wins world-scale methionine facility contract in Singapore: • Engineering, Procurement, Construction Management (EPCM) contract • Second world-scale production plant by Evonik for the amino acid DL-methionine in Singapore • Targeted capacity of 150,000 metric tons per annum Amec Foster Wheeler announces today it has been awarded the basic engineering and Engineering, Procurement,...

Wood Group wins $500m EPCM contract in Azerbaijan

Wood Group has won a new five year contract with BP-operated projects, valued at $500 million, to deliver services to eight facilities, offshore Azerbaijan. Effective immediately, Wood Group PSN (WGPSN) will provide engineering, procurement and construction management services (EPCM) under the contract, which has the option of two, two year extensions. Creating approximately 200 new...

Alba names Bechtel for EPCM $3.5bn contract

Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba), the Bahrain-based leading international aluminium smelter, is pleased to announce International Bechtel Co. Ltd. (Bechtel) as the Engineering, Procurement, and Construction Management (EPCM) contractor for its landmark Line 6 Expansion Project. Under the terms of the contract, Bechtel will be responsible to design and construct the sixth potline as well as...

Chiyoda Almana awarded RasGas contract

Chiyoda Almana Engineering, one of the leading construction contractors in Qatar, said it has won a long-term engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services contract from RasGas Company. Established in 2001, RasGas is a joint venture between Qatar Petroleum and an affiliate of ExxonMobil. According to the deal, Chiyoda Almana will provide EPCM services required...

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...

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...