UK’s BMT wins Emaar tower consultancy deal
BMT Fluid Mechanics to Work on Emaar Properties’ Iconic Tower in Dubai Creek Harbour BMT Fluid Mechanics, a subsidiary of BMT Group, has been appointed by Aurecon as the wind engineering consultant for ‘The Tower at Dubai Creek Harbour’, the new icon by Emaar Properties, designed by world-renowned architect and engineer, Santiago Calatrava who is...
Expat Living Autumn 2016
Expat Living Magazine – Autumn 2016 Get All The Latest On Expat Living CRACKING CHINA: Is the People’s Republic still a land of expat opportunity? In this edition of Expat Living we have brought together a range of features and news which address the expat experience, whether you are heading for China to work, or Italy to...
PROMOTED: Introducing Silversurfers.com
Silversurfers.com is a unique and informative lifestyle website and social network exclusively for the online community of over-50s in the UK and many other English speaking expats living all over the world. The site was developed by an experienced team, all aged over 50, in response to the growing number of UK internet users of...
Amec Foster Wheeler signs agreement with CNEC
Amec Foster Wheeler signs wide-ranging agreement with Chinese nuclear firm Collaboration with China Nuclear Engineering & Construction (Group) Corporation on next generation of reactors Amec Foster Wheeler announces today that it has signed a wide-ranging agreement with nuclear power plant constructor China Nuclear Engineering & Construction (Group) Corporation (CNEC). The two companies have confirmed a...
McDermott Wins Offshore Project in the Middle East
HOUSTON, McDermott International, Inc. (NYSE:MDR) announced today that it has been awarded a large contract by an upstream oil and gas operator for a project offshore in the Middle East. The scope includes engineering, procurement, fabrication, transportation and installation of offshore pipelines. Engineering and offshore mobilization of McDermott’s in-house vessels has commenced for this fast-track assignment, with...
Jordan Ministry awards $128m for Solar plant to TSK
UAE-based solar photovoltaic integrator Enviromena and Spanish TSK Group have been awarded a contract to build a 103MW solar photovoltaic (PV) power plant in Jordan’s southern region of Al Quweira. Jordan Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources will fund the $128m solar plant through a grant from Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD). Sami Khoreibi,...
BP to accelerate the Atoll field in Egypt
BP announced that it has signed a Heads of Agreement (HoA) with the Egyptian Minister of Petroleum, His Excellency Eng. Tarek El Molla, regarding the acceleration of the development of the recent Atoll gas discovery. The Atoll discovery (BP 100%) in the North Damietta Offshore Concession in the East Nile Delta, offshore Egypt was announced...
Mott MacDonald wins HK flood prevention contract
Mott MacDonald has been appointed by Hong Kong’s Drainage Services Department (DSD) on a scheme to improve drainage in the north of the New Territories A drainage masterplan (DMP) review study completed by Mott MacDonald in 2011 identified that drainage improvement works were required to meet the required flood protection levels. This took into consideration...
TAP gets green light from Italy
TAP has got the green light from Italy to move ahead with construction in 2016, as the Italian Government has granted Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) its Single Authorisation Permit. The Single Authorisation is a key permit that allows TAP to move ahead with the start of pipeline construction by May 16, 2016. It was signed...
Saudi’s CPC inks deal to build 5 Egypt SME cities
Saudi Construction Products Holding Company (CPC) has signed an agreement to build five industrial cities for small businesses in Egypt. The Jeddah-based company said it has inked a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the newly-launched Ayadi Company for Development and Investment to build the SME cities at a cost of $500 million. The agreement...
World First – Foreign Exchange
Need to make a currency transfer? Most expats need to make international payments of some sort. Whether it’s to pay a mortgage overseas, transfer their pension, or to send your salary to a bank account back home, expats are always looking for the best solution that will save them time and money and take away...
ExxonMobil PNG expands LNG facility
ExxonMobil PNG, operator of the PNG LNG project, and the government of Papua New Guinea have reached an agreement to supply up to 20 million cubic feet a day of domestic natural gas. The agreement will see PNG LNG facility supply gas for 20 years to support government plans to improve the capacity and reliability...