CB&I announced today that it has been awarded a contract, valued at approximately US$550 million, by Esso Australia Resources Pty Ltd. for work at its Longford, Victoria, Australia site.

CB&I’s work scope includes the engineering, procurement, fabrication, and construction of the Longford Gas Conditioning Plant, which is designed to handle 400 million cubic feet per day of gas from the Kipper, Tuna and Turrum fields in Bass Strait.

“We are very pleased to be awarded this contract which builds on our decades of experience working with ExxonMobil on a wide range of energy infrastructure projects around the world, including our current work with Esso Highlands Ltd. in Papua New Guinea,” said Philip K. Asherman, President and CEO. “This award leverages our global EPC capabilities as well as our more than 75 years of experience in Australia.”

Foster Wheeler AG (Nasdaq: FWLT) announced today that a subsidiary of its Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCm) contract by LANXESS Changzhou Co., Ltd for a new ethylene propylene diene monomer (EPDM) rubber plant to be built at the Changzhou Yangtze Riverside Industrial Park at Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, in the People’s Republic of China. Foster Wheeler is currently executing the front-end engineering design (FEED) for this facility.

The Foster Wheeler contract value for this project was not disclosed and was included in the company’s third-quarter 2012 bookings. The new facility will be designed to produce 160,000 tonnes per annum of EPDM rubber. The plant is expected to start up in 2015. LANXESS, a leading specialty chemicals company headquartered in Germany, states that this new plant, which it describes as the largest EPDM rubber facility in the world, is its largest investment in China to date.

EPDM is used primarily in the automotive industry as door sealants or windscreen wipers. It is also used in the plastics modification, cable and wire, construction and oil additives industries.

“This latest win further demonstrates the value LANXESS places on the quality of our people and its confidence in our performance in delivering LANXESS’ projects safely and successfully,” said Umberto della Sala, Chief Operating Officer, Foster Wheeler AG. “Foster Wheeler is working as the EPCm contractor on three of LANXESS’ major projects in Asia.”

Honeywell has signed an agreement with Alliance Oil Company, a leading independent oil operator in Russia and Kazakhstan, to supply Honeywell Experion Process Knowledge System (PKS) at Alliance Oil Company’s Khabarovsk Refinery in far east Russia. The agreement will also include upgrading the plant’s security with the latest Honeywell security solutions, Radar Video Surveillance (RVS) perimeter security and OptaSense pipelines security.

The five-year agreement to use Experion PKS will allow the refinery to integrate data from all critical process subsystems to improve decision-making, reduce on-going maintenance costs by enabling operators to more easily monitor and manage all aspects of the production process and improve the productivity and profitability of the production process.

“By installing a complete range of Honeywell technology we hope to vastly improve our competitive advantage by optimizing our process efficiencies,” said Eugene Vorobeichik, general director Alliance Oil Company. “We chose Honeywell technology as it’s designed to provide a complete solution for not only improving our control systems, but also ensuring the security of staff and our facilities.”

Yokogawa Australia has won a supply bid from Bechtel for integrated control and safety systems for the Chevron-operated Wheatstone Project west of Onslow, Western Australia. The contract, which is worth approximately AUD $20 million, will see the majority of the manufacturing work completed at Yokogawa facilities in Australia.

Yokogawa will be supplying the CENTUM® VP integrated production control system, the ProSafe®-RS safety instrumented system, and the Plant Resource Manager (PRM) plant asset management system for two LNG trains that will have a combined capacity of 8.9 million tons per annum.

This supply win follows Yokogawa's involvement in the upstream portion of the Wheatstone Project, where Yokogawa was awarded the supply of control systems for the control and safety systems for the subsea controllers and the topside offshore infrastructure.

Yokogawa Australia's Managing Director, John Hewitt, comments as follows on how the latest Bechtel supply win underscores the recognized competence and experience of Yokogawa Australia in major LNG projects:

"Yokogawa Australia has a dedicated team of highly skilled process and IT engineers and support staff (57 of whom are based in Perth) providing the enabling technology to a number of key projects in Western Australia, notably in the oil and gas and minerals processing industries. Yokogawa opened a new Perth office in 2010 after 21 years in WA, and is currently doubling its office space to support these projects and provide training in our systems. Yokogawa Australia is developing into a center of excellence for LNG projects as measured by total gas train capacity which will be controlled by Yokogawa's VigilantPlant system".