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Tuesday, December 01, 2009

• $37 billion Gorgon gas project begins

  $37 billion Gorgon gas project begins The Gorgon natural gas project in Australia, worth an estimated $37 billion, has broken ground. The project is a joint venture between Chevron, Shell and ExxonMobil. Barrow Island will be home to three liquefied

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Friday, December 18, 2009

• 140 employees on Woodside’s Pluto LNG project go on strike

  140 employees on Woodside’s Pluto LNG project go on strike Employees from Total Marine Services working on Woodside Petroleum’s Pluto LNG project will go on strike for 48 hours starting December 18, Zoe Reynolds, a spokeswoman for Maritime Union of

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Wednesday, April 10, 2013

• ABB wins $30-million contract for Australia’s Ichthys field

  ZURICH -- Power and automation technology group ABB has been appointed the main electrical contractor (MEC) for a new FPSO vessel at the Ichthys oil and gas field in the Timor Sea off Western Australia. The order is worth $30 million and was awarded by the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor for the FPSO, Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering. The order was booked in the first quarter.

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Tuesday, December 07, 2010

• AMEC acquires majority stake in Australian consultancy group

  AMEC acquires majority stake in Australian consultancy group AMEC, the international engineering and project management company, announced that it has acquired a majority shareholding in S2V Consulting Pty Ltd (S2V Consulting), a consultancy to the oil and gas industry with

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Monday, February 07, 2011

• AMEC to acquire Australian engineering consultancy Zektingroup

  AMEC to acquire Australian engineering consultancy Zektingroup AMEC, the international engineering and project management company, announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Zektingroup (Zektin), an Australian based specialist engineering consultancy for the oil and gas and

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