Contracts

Shares in mineral sands miner MZI Resources were higher on news one of the company’s existing offtake partners had agreed to take additional leucoxene product from its Keysbrook mine near Serpentine.

A local subsidiary of South African company Murray & Roberts is set to be awarded an underground mining services contract for Dacian Gold’s Mt Morgans project near Laverton.

Western Areas has reignited plans to upgrade its Cosmic Boy concentrator in the light of interest in nickel in the electric vehicle battery market, with GR Engineering Services to carry out the work.

Georgiou Group will build Tianqi Lithium’s new Australian headquarters, under a deal worth $17 million with the Chinese lithium miner’s head contractor, for its $400 million processing plant in Kwi

Broome-based indigenous construction company H&M Tracey Construction has been awarded a $1.5 million contract for the design and construction of an aircraft hangar at Onslow Airport. The hangar contract, awarded by the Shire of Ashburton, follows previous work by the company on two hangars for the Royal Flying Doctor Service.

Energy and infrastructure contracting group Valmec has secured $12 million in new contracts, including a $6 million deal with the Water Corporation.

Waste management business Tox Free Solutions has announced its contract for work at Chevron’s Gorgon gas project on Barrow Island will end in June, a year early.

Henderson-based shipbuilder Austal says a modification to a previously awarded contract for littoral combat ships with the US Department of Defense is worth about $US36.6 million ($A47.8 million).

Arrium administrators KordaMentha has awarded BGC Contracting a $720 million contract to continue work at the Iron Knob and South Middleback Ranges iron ore projects in South Australia through to 2022.

Private company Applied Electro Systems has become enmeshed in a legal fight with construction giant John Holland after the two businesses had a falling out over contracted work on Chevron’s Gorgon gas project.

Perth-based Fleetwood Corporation has won an $8.7 million contract to build new educational program buildings at several custodial centres for the NSW government.

Kalgoorlie-based mining contractor Hampton Transport Services has won a contract for haulage work at Empire Resources’ Penny’s Find gold mine for an undisclosed sum.

Global Construction Services has received a $27.5 million contract for work on the first stage of Scentre Group’s Westfield Carousel shopping centre redevelopment.

One of the three prime contractors undertaking the state government’s GovNext ICT infrastructure project has recruited Perth-based IT services provider Empired as a subcontractor under a $15 million deal.

Mining services business Ausdrill has won a $70 million extension to its contract for work at Peabody Energy Corporation’s coal mines on the east coast.

Swift Networks has won a contract to provide its services to Shell at the energy giant’s Prelude LNG project in the state’s north-west for an undisclosed sum.

GR Engineering Services has been contracted for work on Eni Australia’s Blacktip Gasfield operations in the Timor Sea, with the value of the work undisclosed.

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Perth-based Monadelphous Group has received a number of contracts with multiple clients including Fortescue Metals Group, BHP Billiton and Chevron, with the work worth a combined $120 million.

Perth-based manufacturer Matrix Composites & Engineering says it will be paid the full $US10.9 million ($A14.2 million) owed under a previously cancelled contract with an unnamed shipyard customer, but work under a second contract will not proceed.

A joint venture between Monadelphous Group and Jacobs Engineering has struck an agreement to provide services to Oil Search’s operations in Papua New Guinea, in a deal worth up to $US250 million.

Cirrus Networks has been earmarked for a contract to provide IT managed services to heavy earthmoving equipment supplier Emeco Holdings for an undisclosed sum.

Perth-based NRW Holdings has won a $40 million contract to provide its services to Macmahon Holdings, which is operating at Newcrest Mining’s Telfer gold mine in the Pilbara.

Indigenous contractor Guma ICRG has won two contract extensions for work on Fortescue Metals Group’s rail line and roads infrastructure in the Pilbara for an undisclosed sum.

NRW Holdings is set to receive a $110 million contract if Altura Mining moves ahead with plans to develop its Pilgangoora lithium project.

Crothers Construction has been awarded a $12.7 million contract to perform additions and sewerage works at the Carnarvon Community College.

Local engineering and construction group Valmec has won a $5.4 million contract for work on DBP Development Group’s Tubridgi gas storage facility near Onslow, which will be the largest in Western Australia when completed.

Indigenous contractor Guma ICRG has won a contract for work at Gina Rinehart’s Roy Hill iron ore mine in the Pilbara for an undisclosed amount.

Perth-based telco and managed services provider R Group International will share in an estimated $126 million worth of annual work, after securing a place on the list of providers for the Victorian state government.

Work has started on a $70 million expansion of the Busselton-Margaret River regional airport, after Ertech and Arup were awarded contracts for development of the project.

The state government has awarded an $11.5 million contract to Universal Constructions for development of the replacement Doubleview Primary School, while other local builders have shared in $26.7 million worth of work.

A subsidiary of Spanish-controlled CIMIC Group will build the final stage of the $1.12 billion Northlink WA roads project, with the state government awarding the last unassigned portion of work today.