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 EDITOR’S LETTER

Capping it at 25 was the hard part

Ranking is a tough job, but someone’s got to do it. Find out how we made the list here
elcome to the 2010 Oil & Gas

W Middle East Top 25 EPC Contrac-

tors special edition in association
with ArabianOilandGas.com
The Middle East has been touted by the
collective international upstream industry
as one of the principal reasons they have
managed to stay in the black throughout
one of the worst downturns in modern
history. When every other major heavy
industry suffered, EPC contractors – typi-
cally quiet during tight spots – collectively
managed to book over $65 billion worth of
work from 2009 through to today.
Some projects stalled, and costs were
reviewed, but in spite of some serious chal-
lenges, both economically and technically,
the region has played host to some of the
biggest tenders, most ambitious projects
and the best prospects anywhere in the oil
and gas world.
This special edition has been compiled
by the Energy Team editorial staff at ITP
Business Publishing, combining the efforts
of upstream and downstream specialists
and the ranking has caused lively debate,
which we fully expect to continue on our
message board at ArabianOilandGas.com
Picking the best performers has been
an enjoyable task and we could not have Qatar (pictured) and Abu Dhabi have played host to the biggest EPC success stories over the last year.
delivered this product without the coopera-
tion of the international and regional EPC nies we tip to be ones to watch in the years grown talent, and we are confident our rank-
contractors who have proved forthcoming ahead, you can expect a higher placing than ings reflect this.
with their banked figures and strategies for regional stalwarts who may be resting on The profiles included in print here are the
the year ahead. the laurels of past successes. tip of the iceberg in terms of the phenom-
Rather than rank companies simply on The same logic has applied for regional enal participation we received from the best
the orderbook value at year-end, or from companies which have managed to grow EPC companies in the region, so keep an
financial disclosures, we have chosen to their orderbook by swallowing up more eye on the website for fuller profiles, exclu-
weigh performers on the basis of how of the work that would have been farmed sive management interviews and project
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 THE BREAKDOWN
THE OIL & GAS MIDDLE EAST
TOP 25 EPC CONTRACTORS 2010
1 PETROFAC LIMITED
2 NATIONAL PETROLEUM
CONSTRUCTION COMPANY
3 TECHNIP
4 SAIPEM
5 JGC
6 MOTT MACDONALD
7 HYUNDAI HEAVY INDUSTRIES
8 FLUOR CORPORATION
9 J. RAY MCDERMOTT
10 TECNIMONT
11 SAMSUNG ENGINEERING
12 KELLOG BROWN & ROOT
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13 AL JABER ENERGY SERVICES
14 CHIYODA CORPORATION
15 BECHTEL
16 FOSTER WHEELER
17 WORLEYPARSONS
18 SNC-LAVALIN
19 BLACK CAT E&C
20 CB&I
21 KENTZ
22 SHAW GROUP
23 TOPAZ ENERGY & MARINE
24 AKER SOLUTIONS
25 LARSEN & TOUBRO
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#1 PETROFAC
Petrofac won an EPC
deal with PDO for a gas
compression project worth
$350 million last year.
Petrofac took a massive stride towards regional domination in a record-breaking 2009
Petrofac delivered a phenom-
enal performance in 2009, and
has built on that with a bullish
first half of 2010. The momen-
tum that Petrofac has built up
over the past 18 months, par-
ticularly in the Middle East has
earned the company the cov-
eted number one spot in the Oil
& Gas Middle East Top 25 EPC
contractor’s special report.
“I am pleased to report that
we have made a good start
to 2010 and we are confident
that this will be another year
of strong growth,” said Ayman
Asfari, group chief executive,
when he delivered another
bumper set of results in March
this year. Following some mas-
sive contract awards in 2009, the
4 Oil&Gas Middle East June 2010
company’s Engineering & Con-
struction segment is now work-
ing on ten large EPC projects
in seven countries, including in
Syria, where mechanical com-
pletion on the Ebla gas plant
was achieved in February 2010,
two months ahead of schedule.
“In March 2010 Petrofac
announced the award of an EPC
contract for more than $600 mil-
lion for gas sweetening facilities
for Qatar Petroleum and we con-
tinue to bid actively in both our
existing core markets and selec-
tively into new but adjacent mar-
kets such as Iraq,” said Asfari in
Petrofac’s recent Interim Man-
agement Statement.
In what was a tough year
for contractors the world over,
Petrofac managed to pull off
some major contract wins in the
region throughout 2009, and
build on those awards this year.
One of the most notable suc-
cesses of 2009 from a regional
perspective was the $2.1 billion
Abu Dhabi integrated gas devel-
opment contract.
In summer last year the com-
pany announced that its 50%
owned joint venture, Petrofac
Emirates, in partnership with
GS E&C, won the contract from
US$7.3 billion
Petrofac’s group backlog as of end April 2010
Source: Petrofac
ADNOC group division GASCO
for a contract worth approxi-
mately US$2.1 billion, with a
value to Petrofac Emirates of
around US$1 billion.
The 48-month lump-sum
contract is for the construc-
tion of the 4th NGL train at the
Ruwais complex in Abu Dhabi.
This was the first project to be
awarded to Petrofac Emirates,
the joint venture between Petro-
fac and Mubadala, established
in November 2008.
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“We are delighted to be part

of the continuing investment
STAR PERFORMER: $2.3 BILLION CONTRACT WIN in oil and gas infrastructure by
Petrofac was awarded a $2.3 billion contract by Abu Dhabi Company governments in the region. The
for Onshore Oil Operations (ADCO) for the development of the onshore award of this contract serves
Asab oil field in 2009. Under the 44-month lump-sum contract, Petrofac to further reinforce Petrofac’s
will provide EPC services to upgrade the production capacity of the Asab commitment to the Qatari mar-
field. In addition to the production capacity upgrade of Asab, Petrofac’s ket,” he added.
scope includes upgrading the facility’s capacity to accept increased Delivering the Interim Man-
production from Sahil, Shah and other south east fields and to upgrade agement Statement, the compa-
the associated utilities and water handling facilities. ny’s chief executive was upbeat,
Ayman Asfari, Petrofac CEO. saying the company’s continued
success in its key markets was
Around the same time last ment and construction (EPC) sweetening facilities project in in-line with expectations. “Fol-
year the company won an Oman of the gas compression system, Qatar’s Messaieed and Dukhan lowing our record order intake
gas compression project worth and associated facilities at the industrial districts. in 2009, the business is deliver-
more than $350 million. Kauther gas plant, in addition Petrofac will undertake the ing on our broader portfolio of
The EPC deal covered the to undertaking the commis- engineering, procurement, existing contracts and our back-
Kauther gas-field depletion- sioning and six months of initial installation and commissioning log gives us outstanding rev-
compression project. The con- operations. of gas sweetening facilities in enue visibility for the current
tract was awarded on behalf of The project follows the suc- both locations which includes year and beyond,” said Asfari.
the Government of Oman by cessful completion of the Kau- a sulphur recovery upgrade at “We continue to invest in our
Petroleum Development Oman. ther gas plant in 2007, which NGL-3 in Messaieed and an acid people and our business infra-
Maroun Semaan, group chief Petrofac built on an EPC basis gas recovery plant at Arab-D in structure. Our differentiated
operating officer of Petrofac, for PDO, including commis- Dukhan. Work on the projects is offering, focus on major hydro-
commented: “We are delighted sioning and operations. In early expected to commence shortly carbon regions where signifi-
to have successfully secured the 2008, Petrofac was asked to and is due for completion within cant expenditures are expected
Kauther gas depletion compres- carry out the front end engi- 38 months. and strong bidding pipeline
sion project. This award serves neering and design (FEED) for “Petrofac has a long history gives me confidence in contin-
to further reinforce Petrofac’s the gas depletion-compression of working with Qater Petro- ued growth.” The company’s
commitment to the Omani mar- project and then invited to sub- leum and this award, alongside backlog of $7.3 billion at end of
ket, gives us continuity of busi- mit a commercial proposal for the engineering services con- April 2010 and cash balances of
ness in the Sultanate and again the EPC on a negotiated basis. tract that we recently secured, US$1.2 billion shows the group
highlights Petrofac’s continued The March 2010 deal with further underpins our continued is in fine financial form, and
competitiveness in the Mid- Qatar Petroleum is worth more relationship,” said Petrofac’s is well placed to deliver on its
dle East.” Petrofac will under- than US$600 million. The deal group chief operating officer, major contract success of the
take the engineering, procure- covers the EPC work for a gas Maroun Semaan. past 18 months.

Petrofac will undertake the EPC of the gas compression system and associated facilities at the Kauther gas plant (pictured) in Oman for PDO.

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#2 NPCC
This year alone Abu Dhabi’s National Petroleum Construction Company has bagged
contracts worth over a billion US dollars in onshore and offshore projects in the UAE
NPCC was established in April
1973 to provide a facility for the
fabrication of steel structures
required by the onshore and
offshore oil and gas production
industry. The late seventies saw
NPCC growing through consid-
erable expansion with the con-
struction of its own pipe coating
facilities and the launching of a
successful Offshore Services
Division providing full marine
spreads for Pipe laying, Installa-
tion and Hook-up works.
NPCC’s dynamic growth,
its past achievements and new
facilities have transformed this
national company into a major
international (EPC) contractor,
capable of providing the off-
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shore and onshore upstream oil
and gas industry with complete
EPC solutions.
This year alone NPCC has
bagged contracts worth well
over a billion US dollars in both
onshore and offshore projects
in the UAE.
In May this year Abu Dhabi
Marine Operating Company
(ADMA-OPCO) awarded the
EPC contract to NPCC for the
Zakum Central Super Complex
(ZCSC) Demothballing Project.
The contract is valued at US$350
million. The agreement was
signed by Ali Al-Jarwan, ADMA-
OPCO general manager and
Aqeel Madhi NPCC CEO. “It’s
our pleasure to have NPCC with
us in this complicated project
which is the largest we will do
for sometime,” said Al-Jarwan.
“In this particular project
NPCC have demonstrated their
competitive edge in terms of
pricing, schedule and willing-
ness to do the project and we
assure them of our maximum
cooperation to do the job suc-
cessfully,” said Al-Jarwan.
Aqeel Madhi said of the
project: “It’s not easy… in
fact it’s complicated, but ever
since we have been working
together we have had great co-
operation…We will definitely
succeed. As this is a brownfield
project …a lot of challenges
are there but our objectives are
NPCC was created in 1973 to
support the UAE’s upstream oil
and gas project pipeline..
definitely common.” The ZCSC
demothballing project is part
of overall ADMA Lower Zakum
100 million bpd programme
aimed at enhancing the oil pro-
duction capacity from Zakum
Field progressively from the
year 2012 onwards. In order to
achieve the additional surface
facilities required for this objec-
tive, ADMA-OPCO is de-moth-
balling and re-commissioning
the production facilities at the
Zakum Central Super Com-
plex, which were shutdown
and subsequently mothballed
in the early 1980’s. The scope
of work comprises: detailed
engineering, procurement, con-
struction, commissioning and
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start-up assistance for major
complex brown field works on
Zakum Central Complex and a
new accommodation platform
(NAP) comprising an 80 bed liv-
ing quarters module. The NAP
module which weighs approxi-
mately 3500MT will be installed
by float over technique. It also
consists of installation of Five
Boat Landings on piles and a
bridge connecting the main
ZCSC complex with the new
accommodation module. The
overall project is scheduled for
completion in 30 months from
the contract effective date of 1st
April 2010.
Earlier this year Abu Dhabi
Company for Onshore Opera-
tions (ADCO) awarded another
EPC contract to NPCC to carry
out engineering, procurement
and construction) works on
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the Qusahwira Field as part of veloped field located about 80 tion wells and around 350 kilo-
Phase I of ADCO’s ambitious kilometres Southeast of Asab metres of pipelines and other
1.8 million bpd project scheme. Field. NPCC will carry out full associated works including
The Contract value is engineering, procurement and overhead transmission and fiber
US$560 million and was signed construction of production optic cables.
in March by Abdul Munim Saif facilities including central and The overall project is sched-
Al Kindi, general manager of remote degassing stations, oil uled for completion in 33 months
ADCO. Earlier in February producing, water and gas injec- from March 2010.
2010 ADCO awarded to NPCC
the first EPC contract under the
scheme which covered facilities
required at Bab Field.
The 1.8 million bpd project
aims to augment ADCO’s exploi-
tation programme from its cur-
rent crude oil production of 1.4
mbpd to 1.8 mbpd.
To achieve this, ADCO plans
to increase production at exist-
ing North-East Bab oil field
and to begin productions from
other three new oil fields; Bida
Al Qemzan, Qusahwira and
Bab. Qusahwira is a new unde- NPCC has won multi-billion dollar contracts with the ADNOC Group in UAE.
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#3 TECHNIP Global expertise combined with a massive local

workbook propels Technip to our top tier

France’s brightest EPC firm has the key upstream contracts it
made winning Middle Eastern has won in the Middle East,
business look easy. The compa- combined with its interest in
ny’s Middle East regional back- Iraq sees the company take the
log represents number three spot in the Oil &
US$4.2 bil- Gas Middle East Top 25 EPC
lion, or 41% Contractors list for 2010.
of the total In the upstream business
Technip Technip is in the final stages
Group’s of construction on the OAG-1
backlog of project on Das Island in Abu
$9.8 billion. It Dhabi for ADGAS, Asab 3 for
may be a glo- GASCO; Nasr and Umm Lulu
bal company, EPS Field Development FEED,
but its massive Zadco Artificial Islands FEED
commit- and numerous conceptual and
Arturo
Grimaldi, ment other FEED projects.
Senior VP to the In 2009, Technip banked the
Midde East region, Jubail Refinery project for $3.2
at Technip. and billion, Asab 3 for a little less
than half a billion dollars and
numerous small size projects.
Technip is one of the few
players with sub-sea, offshore
and onshore expertise in han-
dling upstream projects. Draw-
ing on its experience in all com-
ponent areas, Technip is in a
unique position to design and
deliver floating LNG facilities.
Today, Technip is engineering
liquefaction trains with a total
capacity of more than one third
of the world LNG trade through
gigantic projects in Nigeria,
Qatar and Yemen.
In 2010, the company told
Oil & Gas Middle East its main
objectives are to be closer to
our clients in the region. “We
are reinforcing our office in Al-
khobar, we have a new office
in Sana’a, Yemen and last but
not least we are reopening our
office in Baghdad. We target to
continue bidding various sizes
initiatives for both NOC’s and
IOC’s in view of intaking several
hundred millions,” said Lara
Salem, head of communication.
To tackle Iraq the company’s
Baghdad office will be busy
working on developing partner-
ships with local construction
companies. “We are bidding on
several EPC projects with both
IOCs and Iraqi NOCs and we
have already been awarded the
FEED for the Karbala refinery,”
added Salem.

#4 SAIPEM Italian firm flies up the rankings courtesy of $3.5

billion Abu Dhabi Gas Development award

Saipem has built a strong rep-
utation for projects in remote
areas and deepwater, and com-
petencies such as gas moneti-
sation and heavy oil exploita-
tion. Saipem is organised in
three business units: Offshore,
Onshore and Drilling. Saipem is
a global contractor, with strong
local presence in strategic and
emerging areas such as West
Africa, North Africa, FSU, Cen-
tral Asia, Middle East, and South
East Asia.
In May Abu Dhabi Gas
Development Company Limited
awarded Saipem three EPC con-
tracts as part of the Shah Gas
development program.
The development program is
designed to treat 1 billion cubic
feet a day of sour gas from the
Shah field, before separating the
sulphur from the natural gas and
transporting both to processing
facilities at Habshan area, and
then to Ruwais, located in the
northern part of the Emirate.
The first two contracts encom-
pass the engineering, procure-
ment, and construction of the
gas process plant and of the sul-
phur recovery unit. The third
contract covers the engineer-
ing, procurement, and construc-
tion of nearly 250 kilometre long
pipelines in total for transport-
ing gas, condensate and NGL
from the Shah Gas plant to of Egypt. The contract has been
Habshan and ASAB tie-in point. assigned to Saipem by Burullus
The activities will be completed Gas Company, extending their
within 52 months. charter of Scarabeo 6 to the
In March 2009, Saipem was fourth quarter of 2014.
awarded a new contract worth Saipem recorded a net profit
approximately US$400 million of US$222 million in the first
for the charter of offshore drill- quarter of 2010, with revenues
ing rig Scarabeo 6 of the coast of $3.08 billion.
$610 million
PetroSaipem’s most recent contract is for a 3850 tonnes per day granulated
urea production plant as well as all of the associated utilities and off-site
units. The facility will be constructed at the Qafco Complex in Mesaieed
Industrial City, awarded by QAFCO. The project length is 35 months with
Qafco expected to take delivery of the facility in the third quarter of 2012.

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#5 JGC Japanese E&C giant JGC has kept its hand in the Middle
East marketplace during a tough project environment

Founded in 1928 in Japan, JGC to build a gas processing plant at

has carried out hydrocarbon
projects across Asia, Africa,
South America, Eastern Europe
and the Middle East. The com-
pany claims to have carried
out around 20 000 projects in
approximately 70 countries.
Its services focus on three
main areas: planning, construc-
tion and maintenance of plant
and facilities; investment in oil
& gas fields and utility projects;
and technology development
services.
Net profit for its last financial
year was US $295 million, down
14% year on year. The compa-
ny’s association with the Mid-
dle East goes back a long way. It
helped build the Arzew refinery
in Algeria, which came online
back in 1973. On the back of
that success, it was contracted
Hassi R’Mel in 1976. A project to
modernise a refinery in Kuwait
followed in 1980.
2009 was a big one for JGC
in the Middle East. Along with
partner Tecnimont, it won the
EPC contract for Habshan 5
Process Plant from Abu Dhabi
Gas Industries. Part of the Inte-
grated Gas Development (IGD)
Scheme, the project involves
construction of the gas process-
ing unit, sulphur recovery unit
and NGL recovery unit. The
US$4.7 billion contract is its
largest award to date. JGC has carried out a feasibility study for Saudi Aramco’s Rabigh Phase II
The firm was also hired by
Saudi Aramco and Sumitomo to ing facility in the Gassi Touil Company backed out of an EPC
do a feasibility study for the pro- field. The lump-sum turnkey contract on the New Refinery
posed Rabigh Phase II Project. contract is worth a reported Project, in Al-Zour. The remain-
It enjoyed further success when US$1.5 billion. ing value left on the contract
it won Sonatrach’s (EPC) serv- On the other side of the coin, at the time of termination was
ices contract for a gas process- Kuwait National Petroleum US$2.5 billion.

#6 MOTT MACDONALD
UK EPC firm has maintained an impressive project flow in the region
Mott MacDonlad won some major
contracts in Oman with Occidental..
Mott MacDonald’s GBP £1 bil-
lion business spans 120 coun-
tries with over 14 000 staff work-
ing in all sectors from transport,
energy, buildings, water and the
environment to health and edu-
cation, industry and communi-
cations.
Recently Mott MacDonald
was awarded a three-year gen-
eral engineering services con-
tract by Occidental of Oman Inc
(Oxy). The UK firm will provide
multi-disciplinary engineer-
ing design and technical sup-
port services for the oil and gas
surface facilities expansion and
operational activities at Oxy’s
concessions regions in Blocks
9 and 27 of Safah, Wadi Latham
and Khamila.
Vinod Shah, who leads Mott
MacDonald’s oil and gas team of
450 staff in Oman said, “We’re
delighted to be appointed by
Oxy on this contract. The scope
of the agreement is flexible to
encourage real innovation and
the adoption of state of the art
technologies. Mott MacDon-
ald has a long history of pro-
viding engineering services in
Oman and we are committed to
bringing our expertise and local
knowledge to find the best solu-
tions for Oxy’s benefit.”
The scope of Mott Mac-
Donald’s role includes concep-
tual studies to identify system
improvements, detailed design
and reviews, building services
for auxiliary buildings, prepa-
rations of contract documents,
quality control reviews and eval-
uation of tender submissions.

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#7 HYUNDAI HEAVY INDUSTRIES
HHI netted a billion dollar contract for the Abu Dhabi IGD project last year
Hyundai Heavy’s involvement
in offshore structures actually
began with a Saudi Arabian orde
for 89 jackets and deck struc-
tures for the Open Sea Tanker
Terminal for the Jubail Indus-
trial Harbour Projects in 1991.
The division has since delivered
3 million tonnes of offshore
facilities and 5100 kilometres of
subsea pipelines in 49 projects
worldwide.
Last year proved a bumper
one for the South Korean mega-
coportation in the Middle East,
largely thanks to a massive deal
with Abu Dhabi Gas Liquefac-
tion Company (ADGAS).
A US$1 billion deal for the
construction of a gas processing
plant on Das Island which will
#8
FLUOR
Fluor delivers engineering, pro-
curement, construction, mainte-
nance (EPCM), and project man-
agement worldwide. Founded as
a construction company in 1912,
Fluor quickly built a reputation
for applying innovative methods
and performing precise engi-
neering and construction work
within the emerging petroleum
industry.
Fluor is active in the Middle
East, and has been awarded sev-
eral projects recently. In May
Fluor reported that its offshore
unit was awarded a front-end
engineering and design (FEED)
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HHI has been awarded a $1 billion EPC contract for ADGAS on Das Island.
process 1 billion cubic feet of
gas per day from Umm Shaif, an
offshore field, and will form part
of the massive Integrated Gas
Development (IGD) Project was
confirmed in Decmber. From
Das Island the gas will then be
Major EPCM deals in Qatar and Abu Dhabi nudge
specialist contractor Fluor into the premier league
contract by Abu Dhabi Marine
Operating Company (ADMA-
OPCO) for offshore facilities
located at the Umm Lulu field
about 30 kilometres northwest
of Abu Dhabi.
In April, Qatar National Facil-
ities Services, a new venture
partly owned by Fluor, signed
a major five-year maintenance
contract with Qatar Shell Gas-
to-Liquids Limited for its Pearl
Gas-to-Liquids (Pearl GTL)
project in the industrial city
of Ras Laffan. In September
Fluor announced that it had
completed a US$1.5 billion
pumped through a sea pipeline
to Gasco’s Habshan plant. The
project is scheduled for comple-
tion by Q3 2013.
“The project we signed on
behalf of ADNOC is a major
milestone which reflects the
Fluor completed a $1.5 billion EPCM project for RasGas in September 2009.
EPCM project for RasGas in Ras
Laffan City, Qatar. Flour’s net
earnings for 2009 declined 4%
to $685 million, compared with
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ADGAS new vision and com-
mitment to participate in the
country’s national energy strat-
egy, within an integrated project
that also involves ADMA-OPCO
and GASCO,” Fahim Kazim,
ADGAS general manager, said
at the time.
Highlighting the challenges
involved in the project Kazim
said the nature of brownfield
EPC work posed additional hur-
dles. “Due to the limited area on
Das Island, we had to reclaim
an additional 108,000 m2 of land
for the project facilities and to
build a 100 metre-long jetty for
offloading heavy 1 500-tonne
modules,” he added.
The project is expected to
take 49 months to complete.
a record $716 million in 2008.
Consolidated profit for the year
was $1.25 bn, down 3% from
$1.29 bn a year ago.
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#9 J RAY MCDERMOTT
Strong orders from KSA have pushed this marine player into the top ten
J. Ray McDermott has main-
tained a strong Middle Eastern
orderbook and its work in Saudi
Arabia has propelled it up the
Top 25. In March, J. Ray was
awarded a project to upgrade
crude gathering and power sup-
ply facilties in Saudi Aramco’s
Safaniya field. The facility, infra-
structure upgrades and electri-
fication project will help sustain
crude oil production to meet
Saudi Aramco’s capacity targets
for the field by 2013.
The work includes engineer-
ing, procurement, construction,
and installation – EPCI – of a
new tie-in platform (STP-20 )
with a 6000-tonne topside, a
new electrical deck module for
an existing platform (STP-18), a
53 km, 42-inch trunk line, four
new in-field lateral flowlines and
#10 TECNIMONT
Maire Tecnimont is the parent
company of an international
engineering and main contract-
ing group which provides a
Italian firm is working on the largest ever gas plant awarded in the Mid East.
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valve skids, 156 km of subsea
electrical cable, and the modifi-
cation and electrification of nine
existing wellhead platforms.
Engineering design work
will begin in the second quar-
ter of 2010 with contract com-
pletion expected during 2013.
Last year, after a protracted bid,
evaluation and award process,
it the company was awarded
the Karan Offshore Platforms
and Subsea Pipelines project
by Saudi Aramco. The project
involves work in Saudi Arabia
itself and outside the Kingdom.
Once completed, the facility
will have a production capacity
of 1 800 MMSCFD of raw sour
Khuff gas.
“This most recent award is a
significant project, comprising
four wellhead complexes each
comprehensive system of serv-
ices and installations in the oil,
gas and petrochemicals sphere.
Tecnimont plays a leadership
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of which has a wellhead plat-
form topside with gas, chemical
injection, and controls facilities
as well as a bridge connected
auxiliary platform, associated
flare bridges and stacks. The
four wellhead complexes are
clustered around a tie-in plat-
form with similar facilities. The
project also includes intrafield
J Ray won the platforms and pipelines contract for Aramco’s Karan field.
Italian firm is working on the largest
ever gas plant awarded in the region
role in engineering, procure-
ment and construction (EPC)
projects in both upstream and
downstream markets, and offers
a wide range of competences
from feasibility studies to FEED
and technology selection.
The company has recently
been awarded, as part of a joint
venture with JGC (which is
project leader) the contract for
Abu Dhabi’s Habshan 5 Proc-
ess Plant. The lump-sum turn-
key project is worth $4.7 billion
and is scheduled for completion
in 2013. Upon completion, the
IGD Project will contribute to
pipelines as well as 110 Km trun-
kline to the shore and all subsea
power distribution cables,” said
Ed Gedeon, J. Ray McDermott’s
Vice President for Middle East
Projects.
J. Ray’s Middle East out-
fit will undertake the turnkey
aspects of the project from its
headquarters in Jebel Ali.
meeting the rapidly increasing
demand for gas resources in the
United Arab Emirates.
The Habshan 5 Proc-
ess Plant, which is located in
an inland desert area 150
kilometres southwest of Abu
Dhabi, calls for the engineering,
procurement, construction and
commissioning of the follow-
ing core units: Gas Processing
Unit (900 mmscfd), Sulphur
Recovery Unit and NGL Recov-
ery Unit. The work will be
executed by a joint venture
(50/50) of JGC, as leader, and
Tecnimont.
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#11 SAMSUNG
Downstream gearing keeps
firm from stronger showing
Samsung Engineering was
the first engineering company
established in Korea. The com-
pany has built an impressive
Middle Eastern EPC portfolio
but its strength lie in the down-
stream processing field, which
has nudged it out of our top
spots.
In the Middle East, Samsung
Engineering is part of a con-
sortium that only in June won
a contract worth $1.655 billion
by the Abu Dhabi Polymers
Company (Borouge). This is for
the construction of two Borstar
enhanced polyethylene and two
Borstar enhanced polypropyl-
ene units, as well for the con-
struction of a 350,000 t/y low
density polyethylene (LDPE)
unit, on a lump sum turnkey
basis.
In October 2009, the com-
pany announced it had been
awarded a $1.2 billion contract
by Ruwais Fertilizer Indus-
tries (FERTIL) that will see it
building a new fertilizer in Abu
Dhabi. Samsung also won two
packages for Saudi Aramco
Total Refining and Petrochem-
ical (Satorp) mega project in
July 2009.
#12 KBR
Kellog Brown & Root has
been snapping up key refining deals
KBR employs more than 57 000
people worldwide. KBR defines
itself as a technology-driven
engineering, procurement and
construction company.
The company has been
awarded various contracts in
the Middle East over the last
twelve months, most recently
winning a contract by Saudi
Aramco and Sumitomo Chem-
ical at the companies’ joint
Rabigh II Project in the KSA.
The scope of works on the
contract, the value of which
was not disclosed, will see
KBR provide basic engineer-
ing and related services for its
phenol technology in support
of a detailed feasibility study for
the project.
In September 2009, KBR
announced that it had been
awarded the front-end engineer-
ing and design, and project man-
agement services (PMS) con-
tract by Saudi Aramco for the
Shaybah Natural Gas Liquids
(NGL) Program at Shaybah
field located in the KSA. KBR’s
consolidated revenue in the first
quarter of 2010 was $2.6 billion
compared to $3.2 billion in the
first quarter of 2009.

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#13 AJES #15 CHIYODA

Al Jaber Energy Services won a
$300 million Shah field deal
AJES is a 100% subsidiary of
Al Jaber Group established
in 1994 as an EPC contractor.
Today AJES and Al Jaber Group
employ in excess of 51 000 peo-
ple of which over 10 000 are fully
dedicated to AJES projects.
The company’s head office
is in Abu Dhabi, UAE, and the
division has branches and sub-
sidiaries in Dubai, Qatar, Malay-
sia, Thailand, Singapore. The
Abu Dhabi Yard measures over
600 000 m2.
The company was the first to
receive an award for the Shah
sour gas development project
this year, netting the US$300m
construction contract for the
infrastructure, including roads
as well as units such as gas
treatment plants. The project
will treat around 1 billion cubic
feet of gas from Shah, and
pump around 540 million scfd
of processed gas into the UAE
network.
This contract win builds
on last year’s ASAB Full Field
Development Project, for
which AJES won the subcon-
tract for civil works.
The project involves con-
struction on subcontract basis
with Petrofac International for
ADCO. The scope includes
foundations for equipment and
pipe rack, underground utili-
ties network, on- plot roads
and pavement, trenching for
electrical and instrument
cables and a 2000-man camp.
The project is slated for com-
pletion in March 2013.
CORP
LNG and processing packages keep
Japanese EPC firm in the regional mix
Chiyoda Corporation was cre-
ated in January 1948 by Akiy-
oshi Tamaki, a former con-
struction division manager at
Mitsubishi Oil (now Nippon
Oil). The company’s services
include project management,
feasibility studies, FEED, engi-
neering, procurement, con-
struction, commissioning,
O&M and asset management.
In 1966, it acquired the
order for the construction of
Jeddah refinery (phase I) in
Saudi Arabia, its first over-
seas turnkey construction
project. In 1973, the com-
pany undertook construction
of an LNG plant in the UAE.
According to Chiyoda, it is now
one of four major companies
that dominate the LNG plant
market. Its share of this sector
is around 30%.
Earlier this year, TCJV, a joint
venture between Tehnip and
Chiyoda, won an EPC contract
from Qatargas for the mainte-
nance of Qatargas 1. The project
will enable Qatargas to maintain
its current production level of 10
million tonnes per annum of liq-
uified natural gas.
For its last financial year,
which ended on March 31, the
company posted a net profit of
US $32.3 million, down 54% from
the year before.

#14 BECHTEL
Perennial Saudi Arabian
favourite is still building Jubail
Bechtel employs close to 50,000 fied natural gas and in India,
employees and posted revenues Bechtel completed a refinery
of $30.8 billion in 2009. The complex and an offshore gas
value of work booked in 2009 development project. Region-
was $20.3 billion, down from ally, Bechtel is most famously
$35 billion the year before. In associated with its work on
North America, the company the construction of Jubail
is expanding several refineries Industrial City. The company,
and a large receiving terminal through Saudi Arabian Bech-
for LNG, as well as continuing tel Company, began construc-
to make progress on the Canada tion of the industrial city in
to United States Keystone Pipe- 1975 and has overseen Jubail
line. In Angola, work continues II, an expansion of the city that
on a processing plant for lique- began in 2004. Chiyoda won an EPC deal with Qatargas earlier this year.

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#16 FOSTER WHEELER Strong showing in Abu

Dhabi keeps FW up top

Swiss EPC giant Foster Wheeler the importance of this multi-

reported net income for the first
quarter of 2010 of $72.1 million
in May. In the same month its
engineering and construction
group was awarded a project
management consultancy con-
tract by ADCO for the Bab Field
expansion and the development
of the Qusahwira Field. Foster
Wheeler will manage the tender-
ing and award process and the
EPC execution phase on behalf
of ADCO. “We fully appreciate
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field infrastructure project and
will help to ensure the success-
ful delivery of this key invest-
ment with minimum disrup-
tion to production from the
Bab and SAS (Sahil, Asab and
Shah) hubs,” said Umberto
della Sala, Foster Wheeler’s
president and COO.
In June the company was
awarded FEED contract by the
Iraqi Ministry of Oil for a new
refinery at Nassiriya. Foster Wheeler has been awarded a FEED contract for a 300kbpd refinery in Iraq.

#17 WORLEYPARSONS
Downstream deals dominate Australian firm’s Middle East portfolio
WorleyParsons provides full-
scope project services for green-
field and brownfield projects
across all phases, processes and
components of oil and gas pro-
duction. The company has had
notable successes in the Mid-
dle East over the course of the
last year, but these have largely
been involved in downstream
projects. The company per-
forms major EPC projects in
many industries and sectors,
but its hydrocarbons busi-
ness reported aggregated rev-
enue of US$1.51 billion for the
six months to 31 December
2009, representing 73% of the
group revenue result. In April
WorleyParsons, in a JV with
CB&I and Aker Solutions, was
awarded a FEED services con-
tract from Shell Development
Kashagan for Phase II of the
Kashagan oil field development
project in Kazakhstan.
CEO John Grill said the half
year results to end-2009 were
buoyed by the Middle East. “In
some parts of our business, in
particular the Middle East, we
have continued to experience
very good operating condi-
tions and our performance has
been ahead of expectations,” he
told investors.
Middle East operations
exhibited strong growth in
2009, with personnel increasing
to approximately 2200.

#18 SNC-LAVALIN Canadian contractor has amassed

a backlog of US$11 billion

SNC-Lavalin Group has landed
a number of jobs in the Middle
East recently. In February Abu
Dhabi Gas Industries awarded
SNC a US $10 million contract
for FEED and pre-FEED studies
for a nitrogen injection (NGI),
nitrogen breakthrough and
nitrogen rejection (NBNR)
and carbon dioxide recovery
and injection (CRI) project in
Abu Dhabi.
It recently won an engi-
neering, procurement and
construction (EPC) contract
from Saudi Tabreed for district
cooling facilities in Dhahran.
The project consists of a dis-
trict cooling plant, 14 km of dual
underground chilled water pipe-
lines, energy transfer stations
with a total capacity of 32 000
RTand power transmission
lines and a substation upgrade.
The value of the contract is over
$100 million. The company’s
net income for Q1 2010 was
$71.9 million, down from $77.5
million the year before. SNC’s
order backlog, however, grew
to $11.4 billion from $9 billion a
year before.

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#19 BLACK CAT E&C
Qatar’s home grown EPC firm will be looking beyond its home turf in 2011
Black Cat Engineering & Con-
struction may not lead the mul-
ti-billion dollar EPC projects
which have dominated the lea-
derboard so far, but the Qatari
firm is one to watch. With
regional ambitions and a key
partnership signed with AMEC,
expect to see more of the com-
pany around the Middle East
from 2010. Its growth trajectory
is bound to see it involved in
more of the region’s large-scale
projects in the future, and sees
it break into our top 25 as a hot
one to watch.
Black Cat E&C has been
$165 million
Black Cat’s project backlog currently stands at around $165 million dollars
Source: QIPCO Holding - 2010
Black Cat has been involved in many of Qatar’s major energy projects. Readers should expect the company to break out into regional projects soon.
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grabbing headlines for all the
right reasons in recent months.
The company is stamping its
mark upon many of Qatar’s most
ambitious upstream and energy
related projects, and may well
start to look to Gulf, or even
international markets, as much
of its domestic project portfolio
reaches fruition.
The company’s evolution
into Qatar’s largest EPC and
maintenance contractor for the
upstream oil and gas industry
has coincided with quite unpar-
alleled activity in the small Gulf
state. The company claims a
manpower base of over 2500
men and anticipated annual
turnover just shy of the $100
million mark.
In October last year AMEC
joined forces with Black Cat,
forming a joint venture agree-
ment to offer asset support
services to the oil, gas and pet-
rochemical sectors in the coun-
try.
Black Cat was acquired by
Qatar Investment & Projects
Development Holding Com-
pany (QIPCO Holding) in 1999.
The fresh injection of capital
from QIPCO has seen turnover
and profitability increase five-
fold since the acquisition. With
a healthy backlog of over $165
million (excluding a $467 million
joint venture project for the Ras
Laffan Emergency and Safety
Training College), Black Cat
has been well placed through-
out the downturn and continue
its rapid expansion.
Last year the firm scooped a
major contract from QP for the
EPIC of Sweet Fuel Gas Sup-
ply to Dukhan consumers. With
an approximate contract value
of $110 million, the project is
scheduled for completion in
March 2012. The project con-
sists of sweet fuel gas supply
system pipelines and associated
facilities. The construction activ-
ities include but are not limited
to the construction of pipelines
with sizes ranging from 4 inch
to 36 inch diameter. The com-
pany is also executing projects
in Mesaieed and Ras Laffan and
its client base includes QP, Gasal
(JV of QP and Air Liquide), Ras-
gas, Qatargas, QChem, Qafco,
Petrofac and Hyundai.
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#20 CB&I Major project in Abu Dhabi and the Caspian has kept
CB&I’s project porfolio in the region looking sharp

CB&I provides a full spectrum
of EPC solutions. The company
has around 16 000 employees
worldwide, and raked in US$4.56
billion revenue in 2009, and
closed the year with a project
backlog of $7.2 billion.
our strong and ongoing relation-
ship with GASCO and builds
on our extensive experience
in Abu Dhabi where we have
completed hundreds of projects
since 1965,” said Philip Asher-
man, President and CEO.
FEED work for both onshore
and offshore facilities and pipe-
lines. It also includes options for
early works, detail engineering,
procurement services, technical
assistance and design/system
integrity. Work on the project
began in November 2008 and is
expected to be completed in the
second quarter of 2011.

In July last year CB&I was
awarded an EPC contract, val-
ued in excess of $530 million,
by GASCO. The scope of work
includes six cryogenic stor-
age tanks, two ambient storage
tanks and the associated piping,
controls, power distribution and
civil works systems. The project
is part of the expansion of GAS-
CO’s IGD project in Ruwais.
“This contract demonstrates
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In April CB&I announced
that, in a joint venture with Wor-
leyParsons and Aker Solutions,
it was awarded an updated front-
end engineering and design
(FEED) services contract from
Shell Development Kashagan
for Phase II of the full-field devel-
opment of the Kashagan oil field
in Kazakhstan. The updated
contract, was valued at $293
million The contract includes CB&I recently won a contract for work in Kazakhstan’s Kashagan Field.

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#21 KENTZ
Kentz has previously worked on the Al-Kakara Field A Structure, Offshore Qatar, and is expecting to boost its links with local business in 2010 and beyond.
Engineering and construction
group Kentz has revealed that
the Middle East is currently its
most significant area of reve-
nue growth, accounting for 63%
of the overall revenue in 2009.
To support this expansion UTS
Kent, the Abu Dhabi arm of
the Kentz Group opened a new
office in the UAE capital.
“We are delighted to be
unveiling this new office in Abu
Dhabi. It will greatly increase
our capacity in the region and
$704 million
Kentz revenue in 2009 increased by 9.5% to US$704.7m (2008 was $643.4m)
Source: Kentz Corp Ltd Full Year Financial Results 2009, March 2010
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New office opened up to support regional ambitions
on the back of UAE and Qatari project wins
serve as a platform to support
further growth within the UAE.
We look forward to growth in
new areas and increasing our
overall presence within the UAE
market,” commented Dr Hugh
O’Donnell, CEO of Kentz.
Last year Kentz was awarded
a contract worth more than
US$30 million by ADGAS to
replace its control system
and electrical instrumenta-
tion devices on Das Island.
“Kentz’s work is a full design
and detailed engineering, pro-
curement, installation, con-
struction, pre-commissioning,
commissioning and transfer of
the existing field instrumenta-
tion to a new control system for
the ADGAS LNG, LPG, sulphur
storage and jetty loading facili-
ties,” O’Donnell told ArabianOil-
andGas.com. Construction com-
pletion is scheduled for 2012.
In September Kentz, through
its Qatar Kentz unit, was
awarded an EPC contract by
QP worth in excess of US$15
million.to replace two existing
glycol regeneration trains at
the Fahahil Stripping Plant in
Dukhan, Qatar.
This was followed shortly
thereafter by another scoop for
the Qatar Kentz division, which
netted a a full EPC contract from
Laffan Refinery Company for a
receiving and loading facility
to be built in Ras Laffan Indus-
trial City. The facility, known as
the Gantry project, will allow
distribution of diesel products
to the northern geographical
vicinity of Qatar. “This project
is of strategic importance to the
State of Qatar as it creates vital
new infrastructure for the dis-
tribution of diesel to the domes-
tic market and builds upon the
strategic vision started by the
realisation of the Laffan Refin-
ery which became operational
earlier in the summer,” Salman
Ashkanani, Laffan Refinery ven-
ture manager, said.
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#22 SHAW GROUP American EPC firm was quick

off the mark and into Iraq

The Shaw Group Inc is a global
provider of EPC services, tech-
nology, remediation and facili-
ties management services for
government and private sector
clients in the energy, chemicals,
environmental, infrastructure
and emergency response mar-
kets. In the fiscal year 2008 the
company posted annual reve-
nues of $7 billion. Shaw is head-
quartered in the United States
but has recently opened a new
office in the Middle East. The
firm employs approximately
26,000 people at its offices and
operations around the world.
Last year Shaw opened an
office in Abu Dhabi to support
its growing ambitions in the
Middle East. “We are dedicated
to expanding our Middle East
operations,” said J.M. Bern-
hard Jr., chairman, president
and CEO of Shaw. “Having addi-
tional presence in this region will
allow us to serve our customers
more efficiently and strengthen
our position for future projects
and services.”
Shaw has numerous projects
currently underway in the
region, including providing
front end engineering design
(FEED) services for a grass-
roots acrylonitrile butadiene
styrene (ABS) plant for Arabian
Petrochemical Company; engi-
neering, procurement, construc- of the major grassroots expan-
tion and commissioning of a sion of refining capacity at the
400 000 metric tonne per annum Ruwais Industrial Complex in
plant for SABIC in Saudi Arabia; the United Arab Emirates.
and detailed EPC management In June last year the company
services for a plant expansion announced it haD signed two
in KSA for Petrokeyma. Shaw contracts with the Republic of
also is providing engineering Iraq’s Ministry of Oil to provide
services and licensing its propri- feasibility studies and FEED for
etary catalytic cracking technol- two grassroots 150 000 bpd refin-
ogy to Abu Dhabi Oil Refining eries near the cities of Maissan
Company (Takreer) as a part and Kirkuk in Iraq.
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#23 TOPAZ ENERGY & MARINE

UAE firm is making waves in Gulf and Caspian projects and support business
Topaz Energy and Marine is
becomming a world leading, oil
and gas focused marine services
and engineering company, with
a footprint spreading across the
Middle East and the Caspian.
Topaz posted revenue of
US$448 million, and a net profit
of $65 million for 2009. The com-
pany’s growth in difficult times
demonstrates a resilience that
sets Topaz apart from many of
its peers. The company’s oper-
ating facilities are in Abu Dhabi
(Adyard) and Fujairah (Nico
International Hydrospace).
Its fabrication and construc-
tion business is engaged in off-
shore and onshore construction
across the UAE, and for global
clients in the energy industry.
Topaz Engineering provides
marine and energy engineering
services, whilst Topaz Marine
is an offshore support vessel
owner and operator serving the
oil and gas industry exclusively.
Charismatic CEO Fazel
Fazelbhoy, told Oil & Gas Mid-
dle East: “This is an outstanding
achievement in a volatile eco-
nomic climate and reflects the
inherent strengths of our busi-
ness. We have demonstrated our
business to be one that grows
shareholder value in a meas-
ured and responsible fashion
in any economic cycle. Topaz’s
recession resilience is a result of
a blend of long and short-term
contracts, exposure to geogra-
phies of strategic importance to
energy markets and our refusal
to jump on the bandwagon of
speculative vessel new-buildings
at the peak of the market.” TOPAZ Energy & Marine CEO Fazel Fazelbhouy says 2009 was outstanding.

#24 AKER #25 LARSEN

SOLUTIONS
FEED job in KSA boosts Aker’s local ops
Aker Solutions is organised
into four business lines: energy
development & services; sub-
sea; products & technologies;
and process & construction.
The company has annual reve-
nue of more than US$8 billion,
though does not generate much
of that revenue stream directly
in the Middle East.
This year, the company has
won contracts across the globe.
Kebabangan Petroleum Operat-
ing Company hired the com-
pany as its contractor for the
detailed engineering of the
Kebabangan (KBB) Northern
Hub development project in
the South China Sea.
Aker Solutions has offices
in the UAE, KSA and Oman.
Dammam 7 Petrochemicals
recently signed a programme
management agreement for its
acrylic acid complex to be con-
structed in Jubail 2 in KSA.
& TOUBRO
A fine pedigree but a quiet year from L&T
L&T offers the full range of
facilities and equipment for
oil and gas production. The
Indian company fabricates
process platforms with dedi-
cated teams, backed by exten-
sive fabrication facilities and
complementing construction
resources, execute process
platforms. For upstream clu-
ients the company can also
manage well platforms and
pipelines projects, but failed to
deliver much to the Middle East
market in 2009 and 2010. An
exciting development was the
opening of L&T’s Heavy Engi-
neering high tech manufactur-
ing facility in Sohar, Oman. The
new unit in the SIPC area will
augment the existing modular
fabrication facility, making it one
of the largest integrated manu-
facturing complexes in the Mid-
dle East catering to the hydro-
carbon and power sectors.

24 Oil&Gas Middle East June 2010 www.arabianoilandgas.com