CCC's Qatargas II award was placed by the Japanese/French joint venture of Chiyoda Corporationand Technip, which won the main onshore plant contract, worth up to $4,000 million, last December. It covers full construction services for trains 4 and 5 at the Qatar Liquefied Gas Company (Qatargas) complex. Completion of the first 7.8 million tonne-a-year (t/y) train is scheduled for December 2007, while the second train of similar size will follow six months later.

The scale of the contract, the largest ever won by CCC in the Gulf, is underlined by the facts that it will involve 40 million man hours of direct construction and, at its peak, will require 18,000 workers. The award maintains CCC's strong position in the local liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry, where it has worked on numerous train contracts.

The Abu Dhabi subcontract was placed by Italy's Snamprogetti, the main contractor on the $1,470 million package 4 of the OGD-3/AGD-2 which involves the addition of a third natural gas liquids (NGL) train at the Ruwais fractionation plant, the construction of storage tanks and related works. CCC's contract involves carrying out all onshore construction activities, with the exception of the storage tanks, which is being tendered separately by Snamprogetti. The offshore subcontractor is Geneva-registered Archirodon Construction (Overseas), which was selected in March for the $135 million-150 million design and build contract (MEED 1:4:05).

With the two new awards, CCC has secured orders of more than $1,000 million in the Gulf energy sector in the space of a month. In late April, the contractor was awarded an estimated $200 million subcontract from Japan's JGC Corporationfor work on the Hawiyah NGL project in Saudi Arabia (MEED 29:4:05).