Western Australian-based engineering group, Monadelphous Group Limited has announced maintenance and construction contracts with a combined value of around $350 million. The contracts are with customers in the Queensland coal industry and the western Australian oil and gas and alumina industries.

 

The new work secured in Queensland comprises:

  • A three-year contract, valued at around $100 million, with BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) for dragline and shovel shutdown work across its Bowen Basin coal operations;
  • Two contracts, totalling approximately $100 million, for civil, structural, mechanical and electrical work to supply and install an overland conveyor and a drift conveyor as part of the extension project at the Rio Tinto Coal Australia-managed Kestrel Mine near emerald; and
  • Two contracts with BMA’s Project Delivery Group for ongoing construction work on various sites in the northern region of the Bowen Basin over two years.

New work in Western Australia includes:

  • A new contract with Woodside to provide mechanical commissioning support for its Pluto LNG Plant on the Burrup Peninsula. The contract is expected to be completed in the first half of 2012 and follows an initial major structural, mechanical and piping contract for the Pluto LNG Project which commenced in 2009 and is in the final stages of completion; and
  • A three-year contract to provide minor capital project services for BHP Billiton Worsely Alumina’s Refinery Project at Collie. The contract formally extends a continuous services relationship with Worsely Alumina which commenced in 2004.