Project | Contractor | Client | Estimated value ($m) | Date |
Kuwait |
Provide maintenance services at the Mina Abdulla refinery | Imco Engineering & Construction | Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) | 70.4 | 2/9/2008 |
Provide maintenance services for the road network operated by Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) | Kuwait Systems for General Trading & Contracting | Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) | 20.7 | 2/9/2008 |
Supply two deep drilling rigs and personnel to operate the rigs to KOC | Burgan Company for Drilling, Trading & Maintenance | Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) | 62 | 22/9/2008 |
Libya |
Design two new college campuses in Libya | RMJM (UK) | Organisation for the Development of Administrative Centres (Odac) | na | 8/9/2008 |
Provide two onshore rigs in the Sirte basin | Punj Lloyd (India) | Waha Oil Company consortium (Libya) | 42 | 22/9/2008 |
Oman |
Expand reservoirs and transmission facilities at the Barka desalination plant | Galfar Engineering & Contracting Company | Oman's Public Authority for Electricity & Water | 85 | 23/9/2008 |
Construction package at Duqm airport in Oman | Desert Line Projects | The Ministry of Transport and Communication | 70.65 | 30/9/2008 |
Qatar |
Install Doha’s first ever submarine power cable | Prysmian Cables & Systems (Italy) | Qatar General Electricity & Water Corporation (Kahramaa) | 195 | 11/9/2008 |
Design contract for the Ras Laffan Emergency & Safety College in Qatar. The contract covers consultancy services and detailed engineering of the college. | Tebodin Middle East | Lebanon’s Societe d’Enterprise & de Gastion and Blackcat Qatar | na | 15/9/2008 |
Build the gas pipeline between Ras Laffan and Mesaieed | Punj Lloyd (India) | Qatar Petroleum | 800 | 23/9/2008 |
Saudi Arabia |
Construction of a 1,200MW power plant in Saudi Arabia | Alstom (France) | Saudi Electricity Company | 3,000 | 1/9/2008 |
Construction package for the second ringroad in Jeddah | Shibh al-Jazira Contracting Company | Transport Ministry | 70 | 3/9/2008 |
Five-year general inspection services contract for Aramco’s capital projects during the design, procurement and construction of onshore and offshore facilities | Velosi (UK) | Saudi Aramco | na | 8/9/2008 |
Field inspection and testing for Al-Khafji Joint Operations which runs the offshore portion of the Divided Zone, an oil field shared between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait | Velosi (UK) | Al-Khafji Joint Operations (Joint venture between Aramco Gulf Operations and Kuwait Gulf Oil Company) | 2.2 | 8/9/2008 |
Civil works package in Riyadh for the PP10 power plant | Al-Mabani | Arabian Bemco | 267 | 11/9/2008 |
Site development works for support industries at Jubail 2, the extension to Jubail Industrial City, on Saudi Arabia's eastern coast | Al-Harbi Trading & Contracting | Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu | 68 | 18/9/2008 |
Reinforce six 132-kV substations at Al-Dayir, Ayban, Samitha, Habuna, Khalidiyah and Haraga I | Industrial Services Company Saudi Arabia (Iscosa) | Saudi Electricity Company | na | 18/9/2008 |
Contract covers the electrical transmission and distribution works for the first phase of the King Abdullah Economic City in Saudi Arabia | Siemens (Germany) | Emaar, The Economic City | 148 | 22/9/2008 |
Construction work at Jubail 2 | Abdullah Ahmad Dossary Trading Enterprise (AAD) | The Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu | 32 | 25/9/2008 |
Sub-contract work for the $4bn National ChevronPhillips (NCP) olefins complex at Jubail. The work includes offsites and utilities work. | Mohammed al-Mojil Group (MMG) | Daelim Industrial Company (South Korea) | na | 30/9/2008 |
Syria |
Design, supply, construction and commissioning of a gas-fired power plant with a minimum capacity of 700MW | Metka (Greece) and Anslado (Italy) | Public Establishment for Electricity Generation & Transmission | 917 | 11/9/2008 |
Contract for a 140,000-barrel-a-day (b/d) refinery in Furoqlos, near the northern city of Homs | PDVSA (Venezuela), National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Company, Al-Bukhari Group (Malaysia) and Homs Refinery Comp | Syria’s Petroleum and Mineral Resources Ministry | na | 17/9/2008 |
Tunisia |
Upgrade existing offshore platforms and increase production volumes from the Ashtart field in the Gulf of Gabes | Production Services Network (UK) | Societe de Recherche et d’Exploitation des Petroles en Tunisie (Serept) | na | 24/9/2008 |
UAE |
Manage the offshore crude increment programme planned by Zadco. The contract covers eight integrated projects. The separate elements include: offshore produced water facilities, the expansion of the Upper Zakum gas treatment plant, a main oil line, the east and west area development programmes, and downstream facilities | Amec (UK) | Zakum Development Company (Zadco) | na | 1/9/2008 |
Build six towers (Tameer Towers) between the sea and the Central Park area of the Shams Abu Dhabi development | Al-Habtoor Engineering, Murray & Roberts (South Africa) and Al-Rahji Contracting | Tameer | 1,600 | 1/9/2008 |
Construction of a five-star hotel with 300 rooms, together with a spa and staff accommodation. on Saadiyat island in Abu Dhabi emirate | Alec (local) | Al-Jaber Group | 163 | 2/9/2008 |
Shoring and enabling works for zones two and seven of the Dubai Lagoon project | NSCC (local) | Schon Properties | 7.5 | 3/9/2008 |
Build a sales centre for Sama Dubai opposite the Madinat Jumeirah | System Construct | Sama Dubai | na | 7/9/2008 |
Build the Saba 4 tower at Jumeirah Lake Towers. The 222-metre-high tower will have 51 floors of office space and a multi-floor parking area | Arabtec Construction (local) | Saba Properties JLT | 180 | 8/9/2008 |
Built 800 villas in Dubailand | Dubai Civil Engineering (DCE) | Dubai Properties | 544 | 10/9/2008 |
Construction of a commercial office complex in Schon Business Park | United Engineering Construction (Unec) | Schon Properties | 109 | 14/9/2008 |
Provide the district cooling piping network to Palm Jebel Ali | Advanced Composites | Nakheel Properties | 16 | 15/9/2008 |
Enabling works of the Shams Abu Dhabi, Gate District tower project as well as the dewatering and excavation works | Arabian Sea Foundation (A joint venture of Orascom Construction Industries (Egypt), Hydra Commercial Investments, Sorouh Real Estate and Capital Investment) | Joint venture of Sorouh and Tameer Holdings Investments | 150 | 18/9/2008 |
The 18-month contract involves 390,000 cubic metres of excavation and 557,000 cubic metres of filling, together with piling works for the marina’s quay | China Harbour Engineering | Tanmiyat Investment Group | 41 | 23/9/2008 |
Build the monorail system at the $5bn City of Arabia development in Dubailand | Metrail (Switzerland) | I & M Galadari Group | na | 25/9/2008 |
Build the Atrium project at Dubai Waterfront. The contract involves all associated structural, civil, electromechanical works, external works and commissioning. | Arabtec Construction | Local affiliate of Australia’s Sunland Group | 654 | 28/9/2008 |
First phase earthworks contract on the AED40bn Arabian Canal project | Tristar Transport & Contracting | Limitless | 2,100 | 29/9/2008 |
Technology and engineering services contract for the expansion of Ruwais refinery | UOP (a division of Honeywell) | Abu Dhabi Oil Refining Company (Takreer) | na | 30/9/2008 |
Total | 11,414.5 | |