Engineering and project services company Clough Limited (ASX:CLO) today announced that the Clough AMEC Joint Venture (Clough AMEC) has been awarded a contract extension worth more than $20 million for the provision of engineering services to Chevron Australia’s oil facilities off the north west coast of Australia.

Clough AMEC has been providing engineering services to Chevron under contract since 2008.  Contracted work scope includes conceptual studies, front end engineering design, detailed engineering, procurement support, development of construction work packs and construction planning. Work will be performed out of Clough AMEC’s offices in Perth.

“We are pleased to extend our long-term relationship with Chevron to support their Western Australian oil operations” said Clough’s Executive Vice President of Commissioning and Asset Support, Max Bergomi.

“This is an important contract for our Commissioning and Asset Support business and we will continue to work closely to help achieve operational excellence for these facilities”.

“This contract extension is testament to Clough AMEC’s collaborative strength in the provision of Brownfield services and we look forward to working with Chevron to achieve their long-term objectives, safely and sustainably” said AMEC’s Executive Vice President, Asia Pacific, Garry Dryburgh.

/Today Shell celebrated the cutting of first steel for the game-changing Prelude floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility’s substructure with joint venture participants, Inpex and KOGAS, and lead contractor, the Technip Samsung Consortium, at Samsung Heavy Industries’ Geoje shipyard in South Korea.

Shell’s Projects & Technology Director Matthias Bichsel commented: “We are cutting 7.6 tonnes of steel for the Prelude floating liquefied natural gas facility today, but in total, more than 260,000 tonnes of steel will be fabricated and assembled for the facility. That’s around five times the amount of steel used to build the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Today’s ceremony marks a major milestone in this project, when the innovative thinking and new technology and engineering solutions which will make FLNG possible begin to be realised.”

When completed, the Prelude FLNG facility will be 488 metres long and 74 metres wide, making it the largest offshore floating facility ever built. When fully equipped and with its cargo tanks full, it will weigh more than 600,000 tonnes. There will be over 3,000 kilometres of electrical and instrumentation cables on the FLNG facility, the distance from Barcelona to Moscow.

“Making FLNG a reality is no simple feat,” Matthias continued. “Shell is uniquely positioned to make it a success given our commercial capability; our LNG, offshore, deepwater and marine technology; and our proven ability to successfully deliver megaprojects.”

In order to meet the world’s growing energy demand, bringing new supplies to market is critical. The Prelude FLNG facility will be deployed in Australian waters over 200 kilometres from the nearest point on the coast. It will produce gas at sea, turn it into liquefied natural gas and then transfer it directly to the ships that will transport it to customers.

An expert team from Shell will manage the multi-year construction of the FLNG facility to ensure the Prelude project’s critical dimensions of safety, quality, cost and schedule are delivered. Strategic partners Technip and Samsung Heavy Industries (the Technip Samsung Consortium) along with SBM and hundreds of suppliers and contractors around the world are all contributing valuable knowledge, skills and equipment to help make the project a success. At peak levels, around 5,000 people will be working on the construction of the FLNG facility in South Korea; and another 1,000 will build the turret mooring system, subsea and wells equipment in other locations across the globe.

Foster Wheeler AG (Nasdaq: FWLT) announced today that a subsidiary of its Global Power Group has been awarded a contract by BHI Co., Ltd. for design collaboration on two supercritical pulverized coal (PC) fired steam generators for the Buk-Pyeong Power Plant project for STX Electric Power Co., Ltd. (STXEP).

BHI, which is Foster Wheeler’s licensee for utility PC technology in the region, will supply two 595 MWe (gross megawatt electric) supercritical PC steam generators and other major equipment for the project, which is located in the province of Gangwon-do, South Korea. The Foster Wheeler design couples the company’s proven wall-fired PC steam generator with advanced BENSON vertical-tube (BVT) supercritical steam technology, achieving plant efficiencies well beyond conventional units.

Foster Wheeler has received a full notice to proceed on this contract. The terms of the agreement were not disclosed, and the contract value will be included in the company’s third-quarter 2012 bookings. Commercial operation of the new steam generator is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2015 for the first unit and second quarter of 2016 for the second unit.

“While the benefits of Foster Wheeler’s advanced supercritical PC technology have already been demonstrated in the utility market, this is our first such contract in the South Korean market,” said Byron Roth, Chief Executive Officer of Foster Wheeler North America Corp. “The combination of our design package and BHI’s equipment will deliver state of the art steam generator efficiency and environmental performance.”

“As Foster Wheeler’s licensee for this technology, we are delighted with the contract award from STX Electric Power,” said Geun-Heung Lee, Vice Chairman of BHI Co., Ltd. “We look forward to working with Foster Wheeler to build this environmentally friendly, advanced-technology base-load thermoelectric power plant in Korea.”

ABB, the leading automation technology group, received an order to provide electrification, automation and drive solutions for Medcem’s greenfield cement plant project in Turkey. The contract was awarded in July 2012.  The new plant will be located in Mersin, on the Mediterranean coast. With an estimated 10’000 tons of clinker per day, the plant will have the largest production capacity in Turkey. Production start-up is planned for March 2014.

ABB’s scope of supply for the greenfield project includes its state-of-the-art control System 800xA, Expert Optimizer process optimization software, medium and low voltage electrical motors, ACS800 series low voltage drives, ACS1000 and ACS6000 series medium voltage drives, ZS1 series medium voltage cubicles, MNS series low voltage cubicles, site erection, installation, commissioning and services. The equipment will provide high availability of the complete production process and raise efficiency through high-quality production at low energy consumption.