Country | Project | Contractor | Client | Estimated value ($m) | Date |
Algeria | Four contracts covering aerial geographical survey of the Ain Regada field in the Soukh Aras province, installation of intelligent devices at unspecified locations, installation of submersible well pumps and borehole and excavation-imaging services | Shoabi Group (Saudi Arabia) | Sonatrach | na | 06/05/2009 |
Algeria | Engineering, procurement, and construction contract to build a new marine export terminal to accommodate a new urea and ammonia plant near Arzew, 400 kilometres west of Algiers | Saipem (Italy) | Sonatrach | 268 | 10/05/2009 |
Algeria | Construction of buildings and infrastructure at the central processing facility unit which will process oil and gas from the El-Merk field | Orascom Construction Industries (Egypt) | Groupement Berkine | 280 | 10/05/2009 |
Algeria | Expanding Djen Djen port, 350 kilometres east of Algiers and includes extending the north and east breakwaters by 400 metres and 250 metres respectively. Daewoo will also create a new breakwater and an absorbing beach | Daewoo Engineering & Construction (South Korea) | Algeria’s Transport Ministry | na | 29/05/2009 |
Bahrain | Provide project management services on the expansion of Bahrain International Airport (BIA) in Manama | Hill International (US) | Bahrain Airport Company | na | 28/05/2009 |
Egypt | Construction of the 140,000-square-metre, three-level Cairo Festival City retail shopping centre | Joint venture of the UAE/UK’s Al-Futtaim Carillion and Egypt’s Orascom Construction Industries | Al-Futtaim Group | 340 | 06/05/2009 |
Egypt | Drilling exploration in four of seven offhsore gas blocks | BG Group (UK) (Block One); BP (UK) BP as part of a consortium with the UK/Dutch Shell Group and Petronas (Malaysia) (Block Three) (Block Two); Total (France) and Enel (Italy) (Block Four) | Egyptian Gas Holding Company (Egas) | na | 13/05/2009 |
Egypt | Consultancy contract for the country’s nuclear power programme | WorleyParsons (Australia) | Nuclear Power Plants Authority (NPPA) | 183 | 14/05/2009 |
Egypt | Supply of wellhead systems and ongoing support on the company’s gas exploration efforts in its Nile Delta concession | Plexus Holdings | BP Egypt | 2.5 | 19/05/2009 |
Iran | Development of Gaz port, including spending $200m over five years on new recreational facilities | Development of Gaz port, including spending $200m over five years on new recreational facilities | Golestan Ports & Shipping Department and the Municipalities Co-operation Organisation | na | 07/05/2009 |
Iran | Drilling two wells on the Darkhovin oil field with an option for more work following their completion | Oil Exploration Operations Company (OEOC) | National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) | na | 26/05/2009 |
Iraq | Contract to supply 24 helicopters to Iraq | Bell Helicopter | Iraqi Defence Ministry | 60.3 | 05/05/2009 |
Iraq | Supplying four C-130J Super Hercules transport planes to the Iraqi Air Force | Lockheed Martin (US) | Iraqi Air Force | 292 | 06/05/2009 |
Kuwait | Renovation of sanitary drainage networks in the Hadiya and Riqqa areas | Copri Construction Enterprise | Kuwait’s Public Works Ministry | 11.7 | 18/05/2009 |
Kuwait | Provide seismic data processing services | Paradigm Earth Sciences | Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) | 6.9 | 20/05/2009 |
Kuwait | Consultancy services covering financial, health, safety, environment, reputation, compliance, governance and human resources for the upgrading of KOC’s marine facilities | Det Norske Veritas (DNV) | Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) | 22 | 20/05/2009 |
Morocco | Add two 350MW units to the plant the Jorf Lasfar independent power project (IPP) | Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (Taqa) | Office National de l’Electricite | na | 13/05/2009 |
Oman | Building the northern runway, taxiway system, aprons, roads, utility buildings and other civil works at Muscat International Airport | Greece’s Consolidated Contractors International Company (CCC) and Turkey’s TAV | Transport & Communications Ministry | 1,300 | 12/05/2009 |
Oman | Engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of the second phase of the Duqm power plant in the Al-Wusta region | Global Chemicals & Maintenance Systems | Rural Areas Electricity Company | na | 20/05/2009 |
Oman | A 16-year service agreement on Oman LNG’s 12 gas turbines at the Qalhat complex in the northeast of the sultanate | GE Oil & Gas (US) | Oman LNG | na | 20/05/2009 |
Qatar | Two-year contract extension for maintenance and shutdown work at RasGas’ liquefaction plant | Transfield Worley Trags (local/Australian) | Ras Laffan Liquefied Natural Gas Company (RasGas) | 100 | 07/05/2009 |
Qatar | Provision of engineering, procurement and construction (EPC), and installation and commissioning services for extra-high voltage underground power cables in the Doha area | Prysmian Cables & Systems | Qatar General Electricity & Water Corporation (Kahramaa) | 64 | 19/05/2009 |
Qatar | Provide a vessel as well as two remotely operated vehicles, and technical support services for Qatar’s $20bn Pearl gas-to-liquids (GTL) project | Joint venture of Italy’s Geolab and the UK’s Hallin | J Ray McDermott | na | 20/05/2009 |
Qatar | Electrical, instrumentation and telecommunications work on a gas-loading facility at Ras Laffan. The work on phase six of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage and loading facility includes the supply of materials, erection, testing and pre-commissioning | Kentz Group | Qatargas | na | 27/05/2009 |
Saudi Arabia | Mechanical, civil, electrical, and chemical engineering work at a major integrated refinery and petrochemicals complex at Rabigh | Jacobs Zate | Rabigh Refining & Petrochemicals Company | 1.5 | 13/05/2009 |
Saudi Arabia | Drilling, well intervention, and the provision of artificial lift technologies to improve the flow of oil from a number of fields in southern Oman | Weatherford Oil Tools Middle East (US) | Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) | na | 17/05/2009 |
Saudi Arabia | Construction of a corporate data centre in Dhahran, with a total built-up area of 11,000 square metres | Al-Latifia Trading & Contracting | Saudi Aramco | 191 | 18/05/2009 |
Saudi Arabia | National Contracting Company to build double circuit 123Kv transmission lines in Tabuk, National Power Construction Corporation to build a double circuit line at Medina and Mohammed al-Ojaimi Contracting to construct 110kV cables for the new Al-Quwaizah, Al-Nuzhah and Mena 3 substations | National Contracting Company, National Power Construction Corporation and Mohammed al-Ojaimi Contracting | Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) | 78 | 20/05/2009 |
Saudi Arabia | Provide key tubular high-pressure low-density polyethylene process for ethylene vinyl acetate plant at Jubail | ExxonMobil (US) | Saudi International Petrochemical Company (Sipchem) | na | 24/05/2009 |
Saudi Arabia | Design, supply and install three 110kV substations that will serve the growing power needs of Mecca | ABB (Switzerland) | Saudi Electricity Company | 100 | 27/09/2009 |
UAE | Construction of two towers at Marina Square development on Abu Dhabi’s Reem island | CSHK (China) | Tamouh Investments | 234 | 05/05/2009 |
UAE | Construction of a retail area, and office and residential Nation Towers project on Abu Dhabi Corniche | National Projects Construction and Arabtec Construction | International Capital Trading | 436 | 10/05/2009 |
UAE | Above-ground electrical and instrumentation work on the Emirates Aluminium power plant | Target Engineering Construction Company | Emirates Aluminium (Emal) | 19 | 14/05/2009 |
UAE | The Louvre Abu Dhabi museum is scheduled to open in 2012 and will comprise a 24,000 square metre complex below a shallow dome | Pascall & Watson (UK) | Abu Dhabi’s Tourism Development & Investment Company (TDIC) | na | 17/05/2009 |
UAE | Build the new headquarters building for Abu Dhabi’s International Petroleum Investment Company (Ipic) | Commodore Contracting Company | Ipic | 245 | 17/05/2009 |
UAE | Diversion of 220kV and 400kV transmission lines to a new 400/220/33kV substation and contracts covering variations to its existing projects in Abu Dhabi | KEC International (India) | Abu Dhabi Transmission & Despatch Company | 12.1 | 20/05/2009 |
UAE | Construction of a multi-floor car park at Al-Ghusais that will serve the Green line of the metro when it opens in 2010 and construction of bus stations in Al-Ghusais, Satwa and Deira | Dhabi Contracting | Dubai’s Roads & Transport Authority (RTA) | 204 | 26/05/2009 |
UAE | Building six towers between the sea and the Central Park area of the Shams Abu Dhabi development | Al-Rajhi Projects & Construction, and Al-Habtoor Engineering Enterprises | Tameer Holdings | na | 26/05/2009 |
UAE | Provision of technical assurance, risk and safety management, asset management, and industrial inspection on a major pipeline project connecting Abu Dhabi and Fujairah | Germanischer Lloyd (Germany) | International Petroleum Investment Company | na | 27/05/2009 |
UAE | Deal covers an offshore gas dehydration platform and flare system linked by a bridge to the existing Umm Shaif super complex of oil and gas platforms. It also includes a 39-kilometre-long pipeline linking the Umm Shaif complex to the Das island processing facility | National Petroleum Construction Company (NPCC) | Abu Dhabi Maritime Company (Adma-Opco) | 350 | 29/05/2009 |
UAE | GE will supply compressors to improve production at the Asab and Sahil fields, while ABB will supply speed-drive systems which will control them. ABB’s part of the contract also covers motors, transformers and converters at the two installations | GE Oil & Gas (US) and ABB (Switzerland) | Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Operations (Adco) | 80 | 31/05/2009 |
| Total | | | 4,499.0 | |