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Maire Tecnimont wins $400m contract for two oil and gas projects in Algeria.

Maire Tecnimont has secured an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract from Groupement Bir Seba for the execution of the BirSeba Phase II and Mouiat Outlad Messaoud Field Development Project in Algeria. The contract, worth $400m, was secured by Maire Tecnimont’s subsidiary Tecnimont. The project will be implemented in the BirSeba and Mouiat Outlad Messaoud oil fields, located in the Touggourt area, about 130km northeast of Hassi Messaoud. The scope of the contract includes full engineering, procurement and construction activities such as the expansion of existing oil central processing facility, by installing a new oil separation train to double the total capacity up to 40,000 barrels of oil per day. It also includes installing two additional remote gathering stations and over 400km of pipelines connecting the new oil production wells, along with implementing gas lift and water injection facilities. Maire Tecnimont Group CEO Pierroberto Folgiero said: “After our previous award with Sonatrach in 2018, this achievement lets us further consolidate our industrial footprint in the strategic Algerian market in the crucial oil & gas sector, having matured a solid experience of projects’ execution in other Middle Eastern and North African countries. “We are really proud to strengthen a mutually beneficial relationship with such prominent clients, as sound evidence of our successful operations in the Country. This is the fifth major award for our Group in 2020 in spite of the ongoing Covid pandemic and is a further testament of our core business’ resilience.” The contract awarded by Groupement Bir Seba includes Algerian government-owned Sonatrach, Petrovietnam Exploration Production Corporation, PTT Exploration & Production Algeria, a subsidiary of Thailand national oil company PTTEP. In December 2019, the company secured an EPC contract from INA-Industrija Nafte for the Delayed Coking Complex for the Rijeka Refinery in Croatia. Worth €450m, the contract includes execution of engineering, procurement of all equipment and materials, construction and erection work for a new Delayed Coking Unit. The Delayed Coking Unit will include coke handling and ship loading, Sour Water Stripper, Amine Recovery units and revamp of Hydrocracker, Sulphur Recovery, and Utilities & Offsites units. Algeria

Sterling wins $97m contracts for Salt Lake City International Airport projects.

Sterling Construction, a Delaware-based construction company, has secured three separate construction contracts worth $97m from the Salt Lake City Corporation’s Department of Airports (SLCDA). The contracts are part of the Salt Lake City International Airport’s Terminal Redevelopment Program (TRP). The three contracts handed over to Sterling Construction include the foundation work project, dewatering and earth retention work project, and civil and airfield work project for the South Concourse East. For the foundation project, the company will be responsible for pouring of more than 70,000 linear feet of concrete filled steel pipe piles and 98,000 linear feet of driven H-piles. For the dewatering and earth retention project, it will design and construct an earth retention system for excavation and the tunnel work will connect the new North and South Concourses. The airfield project includes all of the airfield and civil work for the new South Concourse East. The company will undertake the demolition of existing taxi ways and aprons, removal and reinstallation of about 128,000ft of utilities, and 200,000yd² of new concrete pavement. The three projects will begin this September and the work is expected to continue for three years. Sterling Construction CEO Joe Cutillo said: “We are extremely excited to continue to work with the SLCDA on its major airport restoration program. This group of awards is representative of our strategy to pursue alternative delivery aviation contracts and enable us to add value using our specialized engineering and construction capabilities. “This work helps to strengthen our already significant backlog, and given that the SLCDA’s TRP is planned for 10 years at a total cost of over $4 billion, we believe there will be additional opportunities at Salt Lake International in the years to come.” Delaware-based Sterling is a construction company that specialises in heavy civil infrastructure construction and rehabilitation, construction site excavation and improvement, and residential construction projects. United States

Strabag wins €40m motorway contract in Romania.

Austrian construction company Strabag has secured a €40m (RON192m) follow-up contract from Romanian motorway company Compania Nationala de Administrare a Infrastructurii Rutier (CNAIR). As per the contract, Strabag will build a 4.5km section on the A3 motorway between Ungheni and Târgu Mure? and a 4.7km long, four-lane spur route. Strabag expects to begin the work next month and the work could take 18 months to completeStrabag CEO Thomas Birtel said: “A follow-up order is always a positive sign that our work has been valued by the client. After handing over the 10.1 km section between Ungheni and Ogra in 2018, we are happy to continue working on this central traffic artery.” In 2018, Strabag completed the Ungheni – Ogra section of the A3 motorway. In April, Strabag had secured a contract to build a 640m cable-stayed bridge across the River Some? in the western Romanian city of Satu Mare. Worth (€30m) RON142m, the contract was signed with the representatives of the municipality of Satu Mare. Construction was scheduled to start this May. The bridge’s construction is being undertaken to better link the north and the south of the city and relieve the volume of traffic on the existing Decebal Bridge. The contract also includes two viaducts and the two adjacent roundabouts. During the construction, existing utility lines such as gas, telecommunications, water and sewage will be taken into account or partly relaid, the company said. Thomas Birtel said: “Despite the restrictions on public life currently in place in many of our European countries of operation, it is important not to lose sight of the long-term perspective and to continue to pursue important infrastructure projects such as this in Romania.” Recently, the company had also secured a contract in Hungary for the construction of a 7.5km bypass road for the city of Veszprém. Worth €72m, the contract will be carried in two phases. The first phase is expected for completion by next December and the second phase in early 2023. Romania

Adani Green Energy wins the worlds largest solar award.

Adani Green Energy Limited (AGEL, NSE: ADANIGREEN) has won the first of its kind manufacturing linked solar agreement from the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI). As a part of the award, AGEL will develop 8 GW of solar projects along with a commitment that will see Adani Solar establish 2 GW of additional solar cell and module manufacturing capacity. This award, the largest of its type, ever, in the world, will entail a single investment of Rs. 45,000 crores (US $6 billion) and will create 400,000 direct and indirect jobs. It will also displace 900 million tonnes of carbon dioxide over its lifetime. With this win, AGEL will now have 15 GW capacity under operation, construction or under contract thereby accelerating its journey towards becoming the worlds largest renewables company by 2025. This award will take the Company closer to its target of achieving an installed generation capacity of 25 GW of renewable power by 2025 which in turn will see it committing an investment of Rs. 112,000 crores ($15 billion) in the renewable energy space over the next 5 years. This is the single biggest investment announced since the launch of the Honble Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modis Atma Nirbhar Bharat Abhiyan (Self Reliant India Program). It is also another significant step in India continuing to lead the world in battling climate change and furthering the commitment the Honble Prime Minister of India made to the world at the COP 21 summit in Paris in 2015. Commenting on the win, Mr. Gautam Adani, Chairman of the Adani Group said, "We are honoured to be selected by SECI for this landmark solar award. In todays world, climate adaptation cannot be considered independent of economic development priorities and both, job creation as well as decarbonization must be simultaneous objectives. India made a commitment at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris that it would lead the Climate Change revolution and today is the leader among the just eight nations on track to meet their COP21 commitments. The fact that renewable power will transition into becoming the worlds cleanest and most economical fuel is a foregone conclusion and the Adani Group intends to play a leading role in this journey. This award is yet another step in our nations climate change promise to the world as well as enabling our nations India