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Petrofac

What a difference a year makes. 12 months ago, the Jersey registered firm was embroiled in legal scrutiny over its dealings with Monaco’s Unaoil and, despite those enquiries continuing, the EPC operator has nevertheless gone from strength to strength, securing all manner of contracts, not only within the Middle East but also in both the […]

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Larsen & Toubro

India’s L&T is a global conglomerate with impressive reach – its total revenue of $17bn last year is a testament to that. L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering (LTHE) is the firm’s oil and gas arm and it has been very visible in the past year. Its most recent award came from Saudi Aramco as part of a […]

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SNC-Lavalin

Montreal’s SNC-Lavalin has slipped from our top spot this year but this is more a reflection of the activity of its rivals rather than a diminution of its regional presence. SNC-Lavalin has projects right across the Middle East but Saudi Arabia is a rich seam. As a case in point, the firm’s subsidiary in the […]

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Wood

Aberdeen’s Wood may have lost “Group” from its name but it has acquired an entire rival engineering and project management firm, itself a top ten entry in this list last year, in the process. Wood’s purchase and absorption of Amec Foster Wheeler, a firm that had 35,000 employees and revenue of more than $7bn in […]

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Saipem

Milan based Saipem has a presence in 66 countries around the world and a backlog pushing $15bn, so its sheer scale is going to keep it at the business end of any EPC power list. The firm’s most eye-catching upstream deal in the past year has to be its offshore contract variations worth $900mn for […]

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Mott Macdonald

This UK based firm has 1,500 staff in the Middle East working across various industry sectors. The past year has been a quiet one for Mott Mac but, despite this, the company has a sizeable regional presence. It carries out multidisciplinary engineering work for Alghanim International in Kuwait, while in Iraq it provides engineering and […]

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CCC

The Palestinian founded and Athens based Consolidated Contractors Company owed its presence in this list last year to its share of the $4bn contract secured by market leader and associate Petrofac at the Lower Fars heavy oil development programme in Kuwait but in December, CCC, again alongside partner Petrofac, nabbed part of an $800mn deal […]

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Hyundai Engineering

This South Korean EPC firm has an established presence in the region, both upstream and downstream, and one of its biggest on-going projects is the downstream ethane and propane Uthmaniyah facility being established by Saudi Aramco. But the firm is also a part of the Al Zour LNG project in Kuwait, which is currently seeking […]