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| Motiva Announces Progress on Refinery Expansion Project | 04/05/2006 |
Motiva Enterprises LLC makes significant progress toward expanding refining capacity in the United States. The company has completed initial project scoping and process design for the potential expansion. Results indicate that a 325,000-barrel-per-day crude throughput increase at the Motiva Port Arthur Refinery in Texas would be the best, most logical choice.  |
| Jacobs Receives U.S. Air Force Contract | 04/05/2006 |
| Jacobs Engineering Group subsidiary company awarded contract from the U.S. Air Force (USAF) to provide engineering and construction services for the Air Force, the Department of Defense, and other Federal agencies worldwide. |
| Technip Awarded Contract for New Biodiesel Unit in France | 05/05/2006 |
| Technip awarded turnkey contract by Diester Industrie for new biodiesel (*) unit, based on the Axens process, to be built in Montoir-de-Bretagne, near Saint Nazaire, France. The background of this project is the program set up by the French authorities for the development of biofuels, intended to reduce transportation-related air pollution and the dependence on imported energy. |
| Aker Kvaerner Delivers Environmental Technology to Statoil | 08/05/2006 |
| Aker Kvaerner signs contract with Statoil for design and delivery of the world's largest system for capturing and recovering crude oil vapours. The new system will treat all vapours emitted from ship loading of crude oil at the oil company's Mongstad terminal at the Norwegian West coast. The plant will be in operation by end of 2007 / beginning of 2008. |
| Jacobs Receives Contract From Northern Lights Partnership | 11/05/2006 |
| Jacobs Engineering receives contract from the Northern Lights Partnership (a joint venture of Synenco Energy Inc. and SinoCanada Petroleum Corporation, a subsidiary of Sinopec Group) to serve as owner's engineer for Northern Lights Project in Alberta, Canada. |
| Technip Awarded Contract by BP Zhuhai for New PTA Plant | 11/05/2006 |
| Technip awarded by BP Zhuhai Chemical Company Limited, joint venture between BP and the Fu Hua Group, a services contract for development of new world-scale PTA (Purified Terephthalic Acid) plant at their site in Guangdong Province, China. Contract covers management of the development and will be executed by a team integrated with the client. |
| Saipem's Snamprogetti Awarded EPC of Gas-oil Separation Plant | 11/05/2006 |
| Saipem, through subsidiary Snamprogetti, awarded lump sum turn key contract for engineering procurement and construction of gas-oil separation plant (GOSP) and Khursaniyah Program Utilities, as part of Saudi Aramco's Khursaniyah Development Program in Saudi Arabia. |
| Chevron Invests in Large-Scale Texas Biodiesel Facility | 15/05/2006 |
| Chevron Corporation invested through subsidiary in a Texas-based company building one of the first large-scale biodiesel plants in the United States. The facility will have potential to produce 100 million gallons per year of clean-burning renewable fuel – an amount that would more than double current production volume of biodiesel in the United States. |
| Mott MacDonald Wins Work on EU Water Programmes | 15/05/2006 |
| Mott MacDonald appointed to provide assistance on two EU funded programmes, one in Papua New Guinea to help improve water supply and sanitation and for continuation of water sector institutional development programme in Romania. |
| Babcock & Wilcox Awarded Environmental Equipment Contract | 18/05/2006 |
| McDermott International's subsidiary, Babcock & Wilcox ("B&W"), awarded contract to supply and construct wet flue gas desulfurization (WFGD) systems at Detroit Edison's Monroe Power Plant in Monroe, Michigan. B&W will design and install the sulfur dioxide (SO2)-reducing equipment, also known as scrubbers, on the plant's Units 3 and 4, which are each 825 megawatt pulverized coal-fired boilers originally supplied by B&W in 1973. |
| Chevron Approves Expanded Deepwater Pipeline for Tahiti | 18/05/2006 |
| Chevron U.S.A. Inc. approves construction of 55-mile deepwater crude oil pipeline that will connect Chevron-operated Tahiti project to existing Amberjack pipeline in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. Chevron also approved expanding pipeline from 20-inch to 24-inch diameter design that can handle 300,000 barrels of oil per day and accommodate additional discoveries in Walker Ridge and Green Canyon areas. |
| SNC-Lavalin and Saipem Awarded Contract for LNG Terminal | 18/05/2006 |
| SNC-CENMC G.P., a partnership between SNC-Lavalin Inc. and CENMC Canada Inc., an affiliate of Saipem SpA, awarded contract by Canaport LNG Limited Partnership to design and build Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) import and re-gasification terminal in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. |
| Statoil Award Kårstø Contract to M W Kellogg | 22/05/2006 |
| Statoil award M W Kellogg engineering contract for upgrading and possible development of gas treatment plant at Kårstø, north of Stavanger. The award was made on behalf of the operator Gassco. The contract is for preliminary engineering and has a value of around NOK 130 million, including options. It also contains an option for detail engineering. |
| Canadian Natural Resources Limited Contract Awarded to Jacobs | 24/05/2006 |
| Jacobs Engineering Group receives contract to provide conceptual study for Canadian Natural Resources Limited's grassroots upgrader to be located in northern Alberta, Canada. The upgrader will process bitumen produced via thermal in situ methods from up to four of Canadian Natural's oil sands leases near Cold Lake and Fort McMurray, Alberta. Jacobs will investigate various upgrader technology options and process configurations to produce a synthetic crude oil blend. |
| Major Drilling Equipment Contract to Aker Kvaerner | 24/05/2006 |
| Aker Kvaerner signs contract with Jurong Shipyard Pte. Ltd in Singapore for delivery of drilling system for ultra deepwater drilling semi-submersible platform. Aker Kvaerner MH in Kristiansand's scope of work is to deliver a complete drilling package consisting of engineering, drilling equipment deliveries and subsea equipment. |
| Liner Hanger Contracts Awarded by Statoil | 29/05/2006 |
| Statoil awards contracts to Baker Tools and Weatherford Norge covering delivery of equipment and services connected with liner hanging during drilling operations. The Baker contract will cover most of Tampen area, as well as a smaller part of the Halten/Nordland and Troll/Sleipner areas. The Weatherford contract will cover most of Halten/Nordland and Troll/Sleipner areas and smaller operations at Tampen. |
| PetroChina Contract Win for Shaw Stone & Webster | 29/05/2006 |
| Shaw Stone & Webster awarded two contracts to provide technology, engineering and procurement services to PetroChina for its Dushanzi Petrochemical Company's new petrochemical complex in the Xinjiang Province, China. The contracts, which have a combined value of approximately $50 million, cover technology, basic engineering, procurement of key equipment and materials, technical training, and commissioning and start-up services. |
| Expro Awarded Contracts Valued at £46 million | 31/05/2006 |
| Expro International Group awarded contracts totalling £46 million across both its Global and Regional Businesses. The total of these awards has helped Expro achieve record levels of order backlog, which now stands at £419 million across the Group. Conversion of the backlog to revenue varies from contract to contract, with some phased out over 3-5 years improving the visibility of future revenue streams. |
| ICA Fluor Signs Contract with PEMEX for Offshore Platforms | 31/05/2006 |
| ICA Fluor and Empresas ICA Sociedad Controladora, sign contract for fabrication of two sleek and lightweight offshore platforms (named May D and Sinan NE) to be installed in the Gulf of Mexico. The $24-million contract was awarded by PEMEX Exploration and Production to the ICA Fluor subsidiary Industria del Hierro. |
| Saudi Aramco Sign Jubail Accord with Total | 31/05/2006 |
| Saudi Aramco and Total sign comprehensive Memorandum of Understanding related to planned development of a 400,000 barrel per day world-class, full-conversion refinery in Jubail, Saudi Arabia. The proposed refinery will be designed to process Arabian Heavy crude and will produce high–quality refined products that meet current and future product specifications. |
| ConocoPhillips Signs Yanbu' Refinery Pact with Saudi Aramco | 31/05/2006 |
| Saudi Aramco and ConocoPhillips Wednesday sign comprehensive Memorandum of Understanding to conduct detailed evaluation for proposed development of 400,000 barrel-per-day, full-conversion refinery in Yanbu', Saudi Arabia. The refinery would be designed to process Arabian heavy crude and produce high-quality, ultra-low sulfur refined products that meet current and future U.S. and European product specifications. |
| Foster Wheeler Awarded Contract by Saras for New Refinery Units | 01/06/2006 |
| Foster Wheeler Ltd's Milan-based Foster Wheeler Italiana S.p.A. awarded engineering and procurement contract by Saras S.p.A. for new process units at Sarroch refinery in Sardinia, Italy. Contract also includes an option, which Saras may elect to exercise at a later date, for provision of construction supervision services by Foster Wheeler. Sarroch refinery is one of Europe's largest and most advanced refining complexes. |
| Jacobs Awarded Suncor Contract at Oil Sands Facility | 01/06/2006 |
| Jacobs Engineering Group Canadian subsidiary company receives contract to provide direct hire construction services at Suncor's oil sands facility in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. Project consists of planning phase, followed by fabrication and installation of required tie-ins and interconnecting piping. A total of 650 tie-in points and associated interconnecting piping is required to connect existing Plant 52 into new Millennium Coker Unit facility. |
| Abbot Group Contract Win for Songa Drilling | 02/06/2006 |
| Abbot Group confirms recent announcement made by Songa Drilling A.S. that Pemex, the National Oil Company of Mexico, awarded jack-up rig, Songa Jupiter, drilling contract which will commence during summer 2006 with initial duration of two years. Songa has been pursuing contract during Abbot Group's recent negotiations to acquire Songa Drilling. |
| Saudi Aramco Awards Halliburton Multimillion-Dollar Contract to Develop Khurais Mega Project | 07/06/2006 |
| Halliburton awarded oilfield services component of the largest oil development project in the Arabian Gulf Region since the 1950s - the Saudi Aramco Khurais mega project. This three-year contract includes a full range of Halliburton's integrated services and technologies. In order to produce 1.2 million barrels of oil per day (MMB/d) for several years, the project will utilize up to 23 rigs to support the drilling and completion of more than 300 wells. |
| Gas Pipeline Project Planned Between Bolivia and Paraguay | 12/06/2006 |
| Paraguay's public works ministry receives five proposals for US$300mn natural gas pipeline connecting Bolivia with Paraguay, the ministry announced in a statement. A consortium of local company Electrogas, Tradimex and Germany's Thyssen Krupp and Siemens proposed pipeline from Bolivia's Tarija department to Paraguay's Chaco region to Concepción department's Vallemí district. |
| Foster Wheeler Awarded Contract for Refinery Revamp | 13/06/2006 |
| Foster Wheeler Ltd's Milan-based Foster Wheeler Italiana S.p.A., part of its Global Engineering and Construction Group, received AB Mazeikiu Nafta's Letter of Award and Notice to Proceed on 3 March 2006, and subsequently signed the formal contract on 8 May 2006, for the revamp of Mazeikiai refinery in the Republic of Lithuania. The contract will be handled by Foster Wheeler's engineering centres in Milan, Istanbul and the newly established Moscow operation. |
| Babcock & Wilcox to Supply TXU with Supercritical Boilers and Environmental Equipment | 14/06/2006 |
| McDermott International, Inc. subsidiary, The Babcock & Wilcox Company ("B&W"), signs memorandum of understanding ("MOU") to supply eight identical supercritical coal-fired boilers and selective catalytic reduction ("SCR") systems as part of TXU's solid-fuel power generation program in Texas. Design of the boilers is currently underway at B&W's headquarters in Barberton. |
| Foster Wheeler Awarded CFB Contract by Bechtel | 14/06/2006 |
| Foster Wheeler Ltd's Foster Wheeler North America Corp. awarded contract by Bechtel Power Corporation for design and supply of two circulating fluidized-bed (CFB) boilers. Contract calls for Foster Wheeler to supply two 315 megawatt CFB boilers for a new solid-fuel power plant that Bechtel Power is designing and constructing for TXU's Sandow Power Station in Texas. |
| Statoil Signs Supplementary Contract with AF Pihl | 14/06/2006 |
| Statoil signs supplementary contract with AF Pihl for commissioning work related to Hammerfest LNG at Melkøya. Worth about NOK 150 million, this contract runs for one year and covers commissioning of all construction work as well as road-building and levelling on Melkøya outside Hammerfest until the summer of 2007. |
| Reliance Selects ExxonMobil Sulfuric Acid Alkylation Technology | 14/06/2006 |
| ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company (EMRE) announces that Reliance Petroleum Limited selected EMRE's Sulfuric Acid Alkylation technology for construction of world's largest unit at their export refinery in Jamnagar, India for upgrading the gasoline pool. |
| Mott MacDonald Appointed Owner's Engineer of Sudan P.S. | 14/06/2006 |
| Mott MacDonald appointed owner's engineer by National Electricity Corporation (NEC) of Sudan for development of Khartoum North Phase III, a 2 x 100 MW extension to the existing power station facilities. The $175 million project, located in the north suburbs of Khartoum, is being developed to provide additional power to the Khartoum region of Sudan as part of an overall plan to install an additional 5000 MW to the Sudanese national grid. |
| Jacobs Receives Synenco Contract | 16/06/2006 |
| Jacobs Engineering Group subsidiary receives contract from Northern Lights Partnership (joint venture of Synenco Energy and SinoCanada Petroleum Corporation, a subsidiary of Sinopec Group) to provide engineering and procurement services on the upgrader area of the Northern Lights Project in Alberta, Canada. |
| Foster Wheeler Awarded Pulverized-Coal Boiler Contract | 16/06/2006 |
| Foster Wheeler North America Corp., an operating unit of Foster Wheeler's Global Power Group, awarded contract for a pulverized-coal (PC) boiler by Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District. The contract, valued in excess of $65 million, calls for Foster Wheeler to design and supply a 400 megawatt (MWe) PC boiler for the Springerville Generating Station in Arizona. The unit will be owned by SRP and operated by Tucson Electric. |
| Fluor Wins Engineering Contract for Canadian Mega-Project | 19/06/2006 |
| Fluor selected to provide front-end engineering and design (FEED) services for $2 billion expansion project for Husky Energy Inc. Fluor's FEED work is necessary for Husky to proceed with plans to double the capacity of its heavy oil upgrader - located in Lloydminster, Saskatchewan, Canada. Work will be led by Fluor's office in Calgary and is expected to be completed in 2007, at which time Husky will proceed with project approvals and, then, construction. |
| Total Investment in French Gas Projects | 21/06/2006 |
| Total currently involved in three major gas projects in France and plans to invest €550 million over the next five years. Total announced project investments during the inauguration of the new Euskadour natural gas interconnector pipeline between Spain and France. |
| ICA Fluor Awarded Contract to Build Petrochemical Plant in Mexico | 22/06/2006 |
| ICA Fluor, the industrial engineering and construction company jointly owned by Fluor Corporation and Empresas ICA Sociedad Controladora, sign lump sum contract with Indelpro, a polypropylene production company subsidiary of Alpek, for detailed engineering, construction, procurement and pre-commissioning services of a second line of polypropylene (PP) and the revamping of existing propylene splitter. |
| ExxonMobil Chemical Awards FEED Contracts | 23/06/2006 |
| ExxonMobil Asia Pacific Pte Ltd awards front-end engineering design (FEED) contracts for derivative units associated with a possible second world-scale steam-cracking complex that would be located at its existing Singapore refining and chemical site. Bids invited from Shaw Stone & Webster and a Technip/Chiyoda joint-venture for design, engineering, procurement and construction (DEPC) work for the proposed steam cracker. |
| Foster Wheeler Wins Coker Heater Contract | 28/06/2006 |
| Foster Wheeler Ltd's subsidiary Foster Wheeler USA Corporation, awarded contract by Bechtel France, Reliance Petroleum Limited's Design, Engineering, Procurement and Construction Advisory Services contractor, for the thermal design, engineering, procurement, and material supply of four TERRACE-WALL(TM) delayed coker heaters. |
| Foster Wheeler Wins Contract for Design of Delayed Coker | 28/06/2006 |
| Foster Wheeler Ltd's subsidiary, Foster Wheeler USA Corporation, awarded contract for new eight-drum delayed coking unit to be installed as part of the Jamnagar Export Refinery Project at the Reliance Petroleum Limited (RPL) refinery in Jamnagar, Gujarat State, India. Foster Wheeler's scope includes process and detailed engineering for the new coker, which is expected to commence operations in 2008. Foster Wheeler also designed Reliance's first refinery's existing eight-drum coker, which is the world's largest operating coker and started up in 1998. |
| AMEC and UKAEA Target South Korean Nuclear Market | 28/06/2006 |
| AMEC Nuclear and the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) sign Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Korean Power Engineering Company (KOPEC) to win work in the multi-billion pound South Korean nuclear market. The companies will target work in nuclear waste management and repository projects, decommissioning, reactors services and nuclear plants in Korean and international markets. |
| J. Ray McDermott Awarded Qatargas Contract | 29/06/2006 |
| A subsidiary of J. Ray McDermott, S.A. ("J. Ray") awarded contract by Qatargas Operating Company Limited ("Qatargas") to provide engineering, procurement and installation services for the Common Condensate SPM Facilities Project, offshore Qatar. The facilities, once completed, will allow the export of condensate from Ras Laffan through two SPM CALM loading buoys, approximately 54 kilometers offshore, via a 42" diameter pipeline. |
| J P Kenny Wins Two Contracts as New Office Opens in Norway | 29/06/2006 |
| J P Kenny Norge AS, subsidiary of John Wood Group PLC ("Wood Grou"), awarded two separate contracts by Talisman Energy Norge AS (Talisman), a subsidiary of Talisman Energy Inc, and DONG E & P to perform FEED studies for their developments projects in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. Together the contracts, valued in excess of $1million, will provide work for the company's new team of 20 experienced engineers in Norway, J P Kenny Norge AS, established in January 2006. |
| Aker Kvaerner Win Contract for Power Boiler Island | 30/06/2006 |
| Aker Kvaerner awarded contract for supply of power boiler island to KFx Inc. which is developing its coal beneficiation facility at their Buckskin plant in Wyoming, USA. Kvaerner Power will supply the coal-fired power boiler to KFx's Buckskin plant. |
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