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| Stork GLT Receives NAM Contract | 07/01/2003 |
Stork GLT a consortium containing major engineering contractors and suppliers has received a major contract from NAM to further renovate the Groningen gasfield off Holland.  |
| AMEC/Fluor Daniel Joint Venture win Korean Contract | 13/01/2003 |
| AMEC and 50/50 joint venture partner Fluor Daniel will participate in South Korea's first offshore gas development. The JV will support production, operations and maintenance activities on the new Donghae-1 field development. Some work destined for Aberdeen. |
| BP To Sell Forties Field To Apache | 14/01/2003 |
| More UK job losses feared as BP announce that it has agreed in principle to sell its stake in the North Sea Forties oilfield to the US independent oil and gas company, Apache. |
| BP to Upgrade Grangemouth Refinery | 22/01/2003 |
| BP Grangemouth has won approval to replace its catalytic cracking unit for the refining of motor gasolines following its destruction in a fire in June 2000. |
| Foster Wheeler awarded Takeda Contract | 25/01/2003 |
| Foster Wheeler in association with Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction contract for a new active pharmaceutical ingredients plant near, near Dublin in the Republic of Ireland. |
| Kazakhstan, ChevronTexaco oil dispute resolved | 25/01/2003 |
| Kazakhstan and a Western oil joint venture have announced they have settled a financial dispute over an ambitious $3 billion expansion project at the giant Tengiz oil field, and that work would finally go ahead. |
| KBR secures new BHP Billiton contract | 28/01/2003 |
| KBR's Production Services team, based in Aberdeen, has been awarded a three-year contract for the provision of engineering support services to BHP Billiton's Liverpool Bay asset. New office planned. |
| Shell Expro not pulling out of Aberdeen | 3/02/2003 |
| Shell Expro has again dismissed rumours it is set to leave Aberdeen. A spokeswoman for the oil and gas company has been reported as saying: "We are not pulling out." |
| AMEC Awarded Sakhalin II Contract | 3/02/2003 |
| AMEC has been awarded a contract to undertake the next stage of detailed engineering, project management and construction support on the Sakhalin II offshore development in the Russian Far East. |
| Transco Awards Major Pipeline Contract | 4/02/2003 |
| Transco has awarded a major contract to Entrepose as part of a £50m project to construct a new high-pressure gas pipeline in the north east of Scotland. |
| AMEC wins BP Grangemouth Work | 5/02/2003 |
| AMEC has extended its activities at BP Chemicals' Grangemouth petrochemical complex in Scotland with the award of a contract to carry out scheduled plant maintenance overhauls on three major chemical production units during 2003. |
| Weatherford Awarded $20 Million Contract | 6/02/2003 |
| Weatherford International Ltd. has announced that it has been awarded a five year contract by Norsk Hydro to work in the Grane Field, in the North Sea. |
| FW awarded BP's Clean Fuels Gasoline Project | 6/02/2003 |
| Foster Wheeler has been awarded a contract by BP for the engineering, procurement and construction management phase of the Clean Fuels Gasoline Project for its Coryton refinery. |
| Costain in Botswana Joint Venture | 7/02/2003 |
| The Costain Group, in joint venture with major shareholder Kharafi, will carry out the Palapye Village Sanitation project in Botswana for the Department of Water Affairs. |
| Revenue Attacks Family Businesses | 21/02/2003 |
| The PCG reports that S660A ICTA 1988 is increasingly being (mis)interpreted by elements within the Revenue to say that the spouse of a contractor who owns shares in the business but does not work for the business may not receive dividends from it. |
| Shell Aawrds Platform contract to SLP | 24/02/2003 |
| SLP Engineering Ltd. of Lowestoft has been awarded a £40 million contract for platform construction from Shell U.K. Exploration and Production. The award is for two platforms. |
| New Name for DNO Fileds in North Sea | 28/02/2003 |
| DNO reports that the West Heather and North Terrace oil accumulations in the North Sea, located some 8 km west of the Heather platform, are to be defined as a single Field. |
| Foster Wheeler wins Schering-Plough Contract | 1/03/2003 |
| Foster Wheeler has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction contract for Phase 2 of Schering-Plough's multi-product active pharmaceutical ingredient plant in Tuas, Singapore. |
| Shell to cut 350 North Sea Jobs | 17/03/2003 |
| Shell Expro have announced 350 jobs are to be cut from their North Sea operations. It is thought that around 210 will be contractors. |
| Wood Group win Talisman Contract | 18/03/2003 |
| Wood Group Engineering (North Sea) Ltd (WGENS) has been awarded an upgrade contract by Talisman Energy (UK) Limited for the Tartan V4LP production separator. |
| Technip Offshore win Ramco Seven Heads Contract | 18/03/2003 |
| Technip Offshore win pipelines and subsea infrastructure EPIC contract from Ramco Seven Heads Limited for their Seven Heads development in the North Celtic Sea Basin, South West Ireland. |
| Jacobs Receives Janssen API Contract | 25/03/2003 |
| Jacobs have received a contract from Janssen Pharmaceuticals Ltd. to provide engineering services for the development of a new 3 Production Module active pharmaceutical ingredients manufacturing facility at Janssen's existing site in Ireland. |
| Glaxo Jobs Fears | 27/03/2003 |
| 700 jobs are thought to be at risk following a proposed deal to buy the GlaxoSmithKline plant in Montrose falls through. |
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