APA Group, Comet Ridge Galilee and Vintage Energy have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to undertake a work program to identify a pipeline route that will connect the Galilee Basin in Queensland to Australia’s east coast gas markets. APA’s proposed route to market will also allow for gas to be supplied to the large mining projects planned for the [...]
Santos has signed non-binding memoranda of understanding for the supply of natural gas from the Narrabri Gas Project in NSW. Under the proposed transactions with Brickworks and Weston Energy, Santos would supply Brickworks with up to 3 PJ per year of natural gas from Narrabri for seven years from 2025 and Weston Energy with 10 PJ per year for 10 [...]
Zinfra, one of Australia’s leading utility infrastructure service providers, has been awarded the power utility relocation work for the West Gate Tunnel Project. The contract was awarded through CPB Contractors and John Holland’s Joint Venture, the construction contractor appointed to build the West Gate Tunnel. This is an enabling piece of work for the project, with Zinfra engaged to deliver [...]
Zinfra has been awarded the construction contract to build the connection assets on behalf of AusNet Services as part of the construction of the Stockyard Hill Wind Farm. Located on farmland approximately 45km south of Ballarat, Victoria, the Stockyard Hill Wind Farm (SHWF) will have a total expected capacity of around 530MW from 149 turbines Once completed, SHWF will be [...]
SA Water has awarded the contract to upgrade the sewer network in Adelaide’s north-west to support future growth in the area and improve odour management. Fulton Hogan has been contracted to undertake the work, which is scheduled to begin in April 2018. The $12 million project involves a refurbishment of the Largs North Wastewater Pump Station and the installation of [...]
Zinfra has begun working on the operations and maintenance contract for the entire United Energy (UE) electricity network in Victoria. The contract covers the 24/7 operations and maintenance of the full region of the UE electricity distribution network, covering over 640,000 customers. Whilst Zinfra has delivered O&M services to the northern region of the UE network since 2012, this new agreement, [...]
Equis Energy has awarded the contract to build and maintain the Tailem Bend 127MWDC Solar Farm in South Australia. CIMIC Group company UGL has been awarded the project contract which is expected begin in 2018, and generate revenue to UGL of approximately $170 million. CIMIC Group Chief Executive Officer, Michael Wright, said, “With our growing expertise in delivering renewable energy [...]
The City of Newcastle, NSW, has awarded the contract to design and construct a $7 million, 5MW solar project to a joint venture. Carnegie Clean Energy’s subsidiary Energy Made Clean and its Joint Venture partner Lendlease, have been awarded the contract for the design, construction, operation and maintenance of the project. The solar farm will be located on a capped, [...]
Western Power has awarded the construction construct for its new depot that will service the Vasse region in Western Australia. Local South West-based construction firm Perkins has been awarded the contract following a competitive tender process providing a major construction project for the region. The new depot features a zone-based design to help minimise interactions between people and vehicles. With [...]
An Australian energy services group has been awarded the $3 million contract for the civil construction scope on the Mt Isa Compressor Station as part of the Northern Gas Pipeline Project (NGP) for Jemena. Valmec has signed a key Memorandum of Understanding (MoU” with the project site’s traditional owners to support its project delivery strategy which will see Valmec work [...]
The contract to deliver the engineering, procurement and construction of the Kennedy Energy Park in Queensland has been awarded to a consortium. A consortium between Vestas and Quanta Services has won the contract and is expecting to have the park in operation by the end of 2018. The partnership has announced the final details of a project that will help [...]
The contract to design, construct, maintain and operate the River Murray to Broken Hill pipeline has been awarded. Minister for Regional Water, Niall Blair, announced a consortium of John Holland, MPC Group and TRILITY won the contract for the game-changing piece of water infrastructure. The successful tender was chosen from a shortlist of four potential providers to build the 270km [...]
An Australian energy company has been awarded the contract to supply and install NSW’s largest grid support battery energy storage system at West Dapto. MPower was awarded the contract to design, build and install a one megawatt hour battery energy storage system at the site of our future West Dapto Zone Substation. Endeavour Energy General Manager Asset Management, Ty Christopher, [...]
A $15 million upgrade of WaterNSW’s five metropolitan dams is set to take place, with works to electrical assets to make sites safer, more community friendly and meet contemporary standards. Downer Group has won the tender to begin the next phase of upgrades on the Upper Nepean System, which includes replacing overhead wiring and putting it underground. Significant work will [...]
The contract for the construction of ElectraNet’s 30MW large-scale battery at the Dalrymple Substation in Adelaide has been awarded. Consolidated Power Projects (CPP) will work with international power company ABB and battery provider Samsung to deliver the project. The battery, which will deliver both regulated network services and competitive market services, is part funded by up to $12 million from [...]
The contract for the construction of a 38.5km pipeline to connect the lower Yorke Peninsula towns of Warooka and Point Turton to SA Water’s mains water supply network has been awarded. Leed Engineering and Construction has been contracted to carry out the work, which is scheduled for completion by late 2018. The 38.5km pipeline will secure the future of the [...]
A Far North Queensland company has been awarded a tender to install a rooftop solar farm in the remote indigenous community at Lockhart River. Minister for Housing and Public Works, Mick de Brenni, said Cairns renewable energy specialist Australian Sustainable Energy (ASE) has been awarded the contract to install the solar farm on government-owned buildings. Mr de Brenni said the [...]
The South Australian Government has awarded the contract for construction of a 150 megawatt solar thermal power station with eight hours of energy storage near the town of Port Augusta as part of its plan to procure 25 per cent of its electricity load from dispatchable renewable energy providers and drive innovation in storage. SolarReserve was awarded the contract to supply [...]
Seqwater has appointed two new global contractors to aid in the design of the Sideling Creek Dam upgrade. Engineering and infrastructure advisory firm, Aurecon and specialist power and water consulting firm, Entura have been chosen in partnership to support the upgrade. Aurecon and Entura are partnering to deliver detailed design advisory for the upgrade of Sideling Creek Dam. The appointment [...]
The Port of Cairns has awarded the contract for the construction of a laydown facility, which will be leased to store more than 450 components for Queensland’s largest wind farm project, the Mount Emerald Wind Farm. Local company LDI was awarded the contract to construct the facility, and Rex Andrews Engineered Transportation was awarded the logistics contract to mobilise specialised [...]
After an extensive vetting process, Sydney Water has chosen a new consortium as its technology partner. Sydney Water has selected a consortium led by Wipro Ltd., comprising CapGemini and Ernst & Young to design, build and run its Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Billing and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions. The solution will be based on the latest SAP HANA technology [...]
The first of 29 off-grid communities in the Northern Territory has received solar power as part of the $55 million Solar Energy Transformation Program (SETuP). Maningrida is the first of the 29 communities in the Northern Territory to receive solar power. Darwin based business Territoria Civil was awarded the tender to engineer, procure and construct the systems in the communities. [...]
Victorian gas distributor, Multinet Gas, has awarded a significant contract extension to one of their long term partners. Comdain Infrastructure and Multinet Gas have extended their contract, with Comdain’s existing preferred service provider position in Victoria’s Southern region to now oversee all operation and maintenance services for the entire Multinet Gas network. Encompassing both Northern and Southern regions of Victoria, [...]
Icon Water has awarded a contract as part of its Water Main Renewal Project, involving works to upgrade 3470m of over 80 year old water main pipes to new, better-quality pipes in the Kingston and Barton areas. ITS PipeTech Pty Ltd (ITS) has been awarded this contract, with preparation due to begin on 20 March 2017. The project is expected [...]
The $24.4 million contract for the second stage of the Keepit Dam upgrade has been awarded. SRG Limited has been awarded the contract and preparations for the second stage of the upgrade will begin shortly. The second stage will involve installing post-tensioned cable anchors vertically through the dam wall. Andrew George, WaterNSW Executive Manager Asset Solutions and Delivery, said the [...]
A company has been awarded a contract to construct a new large bi-directional water pipeline, pump station and inlet infrastructure for the northern NSW communities of Boggabilla and Toomelah. Coastal Works, based in Coffs Harbour, will soon begin construction on the almost $5 million project which aims to drought-proof the towns. Coastal Works will sub-contract out parts of the work [...]
The Victorian Government has awarded three contracts for separate works on Coliban Water’s Bendigo Groundwater Project. Victorian Member for Bendigo East, Jacinta Allan, said Lendlease was awarded a contract to design, construct, operate and maintain a groundwater treatment plant, Veolia Water Network would construct the pipeline, and Ward Bros from Rochester would construct the brine storage lagoon. In total, the [...]
TasNetworks has awarded one of its Distribution Overhead Services Contracts to Zinfra. The contracts support the delivery of TasNetworks’ rolling program of routine and reactive services for the next three years. In place until June 2019, the contract is financially and strategically significant for Zinfra in Tasmania. Having delivered as a tier one contractor for TasNetworks for more than nine [...]
WaterNSW has awarded a contract for stage two of the Fish River Water Supply Replacement Pipeline project. TCM Civil won the contract and will begin work on stage two in March 2017. Stage two will see a 3km section of the 54km Fish River pipeline between Oberon and Wallerawang replaced with a new pipeline. Stage one has been underway since [...]
Sydney Water has announced a shortlist in its search for a strategic partner to implement its new customer-focused operating model. Sydney Water received Expression of Interest (EOI) submissions from five organisations: Deloitte Consulting, Ernst & Young, KPMG, PricewaterhouseCoopers Australia and Third Horizon. At the completion of the evaluation of submissions, two participants were shortlisted to progress to the next sourcing [...]
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