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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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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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KBR

This former Halliburton subsidiary is one of our big movers and has been prominent in the region. Last summer, Occidental Abu Dhabi on behalf of ADNOC awarded KBR a PMC deal for the management of the FEED phase of the Dalma gas field development and the detailed design and surveys phase of the Hail and […]

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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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Anton Oilfield Services

This Chinese firm currently has a project in southern Iraq, worth $140mn, to provide workover and completion services for more than 160 wells. But in April, alongside our top ranking EPC firm Petrofac, it secured an impressive deal to operate Iraq’s Majnoon oilfield – one of the country’s giant fields and where production is currently […]

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Bonatti Group

One of several Italian firms, including fellow EPC outfit Saipem and supermajor Eni, that has a presence at the vast Zohr gas field offshore Egypt. Bonatti won an electrical and instrumentation contract last November and this followed a similar award to its subsidiary Carlo Gavazzi Egypt from Bechtel a few months before. The firm has […]