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Atkins consortium wins work on Saudi sanitation project

Atkins, member of the SNC-Lavalin group, has won an advisory services contract from state-owned National Water Company (NWC) as part of a consortium to provide sustainable sanitation services in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Comprising three flagship privatization projects (Jeddah, Dammam, Turaif, Arar, Sakaka), those will improve the current wastewater infrastructure in the cities of...

Pöyry win Shoaiba 4 desalination plant contract, Saudi Arabia

The Saline Water Conversion Company (SWCC) has awarded Pöyry with the owner’s engineer services assignment for the Shoaiba 4 desalination plant in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Shoaiba 4 will meet the potable water requirements of Saudi Arabia’s second largest city and its five million people. Using reverse osmosis membranes, Shoaiba 4 will process up...

Fluor seals Saudi projects partnership deal

Fluor,  a global engineering, procurement, fabrication, construction and maintenance company, announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Ma’aden) to support future Ma’aden projects located within and outside the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Under the MOU, Fluor would be considered for conceptual; pre-front-end engineering and design (FEED); FEED;...

Saudi Aramco and Jacobs create JV

Saudi Aramco entered into an agreement with Jacobs to form a Saudi Arabia-based joint venture company to provide professional program and construction management (PMCM) services for social infrastructure projects throughout the Kingdom and across the Middle East and North Africa. Jacobs’ presence in Saudi Arabia spans more than 40 years. Jacobs Chairman and CEO Steve...

Punj Lloyd bags Saudi Aramco-Sinopec JV contract

Punj Lloyd today announced an  EPC contract on LSTK basis in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia worth INR 312 crore. The ‘Clean Fuels Interfacing Facilities Project’ was awarded to Punj Lloyd subsidiary, Dayim Punj Lloyd, by the Yanbu Aramco Sinopec Refining Company Limited (YASREF). The project objective is to interface YASREF with the Aramco Yanbu Refinery to...

Doosan win $422m Seawater Desalination contract

Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction, a leading provider of seawater desalination solutions, has won a 470 billion won (US$422 million) contract to build a seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) desalination plant in Saudi Arabia. Doosan Heavy announced that it had signed a deal with Saudi Arabia’s Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) on March 29 to build...

Siemens secure $400m Saudi turbines deal

Siemens has received an order for five F-class gas turbines for a combined heat and power (CHP) plant in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. With an electrical generating capacity of about 1,500 megawatts (MW), the plant will supply about 400 MW of electricity and process steam to a new natural gas extraction plant in Fadhili...

Bechtel wins Saudi NPMO project contract

Bechtel, a global leader in engineering, procurement, and construction, has been awarded a contract to support setting up and operating the National Project Management Organization (NPMO) in Saudi Arabia. NPMO (known as “Mashroat”) will support Saudi government agencies to effectively deliver complex infrastructure projects, in line with Saudi Arabia’s “Vision 2030” plan to modernize the...

Saipem Awarded $240m Oil Drilling Contracts

Saipem has been awarded new contracts and the extension of pre-existing agreements in the onshore drilling sector in Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Bolivia and Argentina for a total value of $240 million. In the Middle East, a strategic area for the Company, Saipem boosts its presence with a further important three-year extension to activities relating to...

Thales wins 2,400km Saudi rail maintenance contract

Thales has been awarded a one year renewable maintenance contract for the 2,400 km lines – mineral and passenger – of the North South Railway project crossing Saudi Arabia. This contract demonstrates the trust relationship built with Saudi Railway Company over years of collaboration to deploy the complete transportation systems on the line. The North-South...

Jacobs Wins Sipchem Facilities contract Saudi Arabia

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (NYSE:JEC) announced today it received a three-year contract from Saudi International Petrochemical Company (Sipchem) to provide general engineering services at Sipchem’s Jubail Industrial City facilities in Saudi Arabia. Under the terms of the contract, Jacobs is expected to provide a range of engineering services on an as-needed basis for a portfolio...

Jacobs wins contract with SATORP in Saudi Arabia

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.  announced it received a two year contract from Saudi Aramco Total Refining and Petrochemical Company (SATORP) to provide general engineering services (GES) at SATORP’s Jubail Industrial City II facilities in Saudi Arabia. Under the terms of the contract Jacobs is providing a range of feasibility studies, concept design and detailed engineering design services for a...