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Jacobs Secures Contract for Yasref Refinery Project

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. through its local subsidiary in Saudi Arabia, Jacobs ZATE, has been awarded a three-year, general engineering services (GES) contract from Yanbu Aramco Sinopec Refining Company Ltd. (YASREF) to help optimize the production at Yasref’s Yanbu Industrial City facilities in Saudi Arabia. Jacobs will provide a range of services, from basic engineering...

TechnipFMC secures FEED contract for BP’s West African LNG project

TechnipFMC has been awarded a front-end engineering design (FEED) contract by BP for the floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit for the Tortue/Ahmeyim Field Development, a major LNG (liquefied natural gas) project located offshore on the maritime border of Mauritania and Senegal. The agreement between the two companies provides a mechanism to allow a...

Wood wins new contract to provide FEED for Statoil refinery in Norway

Wood is delivering front-end engineering design (FEED) for Statoil’s Mongstad refinery near Bergen, Norway, as part of a new contract secured under an existing framework agreement. Effective immediately, the scope of the contract includes the design, engineering and analysis for modifications to reduce sulphur content in gasoline produced at the refinery. Wood’s in-country engineering teams...

BP selects McDermott and BHGE for subsea contracts West Africa

McDermott International, Inc. and Baker Hughes, a GE company announced the selection of front-end engineering design (FEED) studies in advance of a substantial* engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract for BP’s Tortue/Ahmeyim Field Development, a major gas project located on the maritime border of Mauritania and Senegal. During this initial engineering phase, McDermott will...

Wood wins contract with Aramco and SABIC

Wood has been selected to develop the world’s largest fully integrated crude oil to chemicals (COTC) complex in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, on behalf of Saudi Aramco and SABIC as the first PMC contractor. The company will provide front end engineering design (pre-FEED and FEED) and project management services during the engineering, procurement and...

Wood wins new contract delivering mega-project for Saudi Aramco

Wood has secured a new multi-million dollar, five-year contract to support Saudi Aramco in the delivery of one of its mega-projects in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Engineering and project management services to develop the Marjan oil field in the state’s eastern province will be provided under the contract, which is effective immediately. The front...

KBR JV Wins Two FEED Contracts from Azerbaijan International Oil Company

KBR, Inc.  announced  that its joint venture with SOCAR has been awarded two separate Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) contracts for a new Production, Drilling, Quarters (PDQ) platform – the Azeri Central East (ACE) platform – to be located in the Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli (ACG) field in the Azerbaijan sector of the Caspian Sea. The contracts cover the...

KBR JV secures FEED contract for Azaerbaijan’s big gas field

KBR, Inc. announced that the SOCAR-KBR Limited Liability Company (SKLLC) joint venture has been awarded a Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) contract for the topsides of the Absheron Early Production Project. The platform will be located at SOCAR’s Oil Rocks facility and will deliver gas and condensate into the SOCAR network. This award marks the 3rd...

CH2M awarded support contract on BP project

CH2M has been awarded a new marine engineering support contract on BP’s innovative Tortue development offshore Mauritania and Senegal. The new energy development project involves subsea gas production, a floating gas treatment facility, a pipeline with domestic gas connection points and a nearshore hub facility where the gas is converted into liquefied natural gas (LNG)....

Petrofac awarded Iraq FEED contract with KOGAS

Petrofac has been awarded a Front End Engineering Design (FEED) modification contract for KOGAS AKKAS B.V. (KOGAS’) Nasiriya Gas Treatment Plant (GTP) in southern Iraq. Petrofac’s scope of work includes the modification and application of an existing field design to meet the needs of the Nasiriya GTP, and an estimation for the engineering, procurement and...

KBR chosen for new Abu Dhabi FEED deal

KBR announced  it has been awarded a Project Management Services (PMC) contract by OMV Offshore Abu Dhabi GmbH on behalf of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) for management of the Front End Engineering Design (FEED) phase of the Hail & Ghasha Development project in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. KBR will also perform PMC...

AmecFW wins FEED contract for Total’s Donges refinery

Amec Foster Wheeler announces that it has been awarded a Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) contract by Total Raffinage France, a subsidiary of Total, the French multinational integrated oil and gas company. Total has stated that the Donges refinery currently lacks desulphurisation capacity, and a significant proportion of its fuels are therefore exported because they no...