Boustead Singapore says it has won a contract of an undisclosed amount to design, build and lease an integrated private jet sales and maintenance, repair and overhaul facility for Hawker Pacific Asia at Seletar Aerospace Park. Expected to be completed in 1Q 2012, the facility has a gross floor area of 9,400 square metres.
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Google, SayNow and Twitter have built a speak-to-tweet for people in Egypt. People can call a few numbers and leave messages, which will be blasted out as tweets. – Google and
Twitter have teamed up to create a speak-to-tweet service for citizens in
Egypt, where the Internet has gone dark.
Tweeting via
speech is simple and requires no Internet connection. Users may tweet by
calling (+16504194196 or +390662207294 or +97316199855) and leaving a voice mail
m…
Keppel FELS says it has secured a contract worth about US$416 million ($532 million) from Discovery Offshore S.A. (Discovery Offshore) to construct two harsh environment jackup rigs based on KFELS’s Super A Class design.
The rigs are scheduled for delivery in 1H and 2H 2013 respectively. The construction, marketing and operation of both units will be managed by Nasdaq-listed Hercules Offshore, Inc., which is a leading global operator of jackup and liftboat assets.
Compuware unit Covisint will create a health information exchange for the Greater Tulsa Health Access Network using its ExchangeLink cloud platform. – Cloud computing provider Covisint, a division of enterprise software firm Compuware,
has announced a deal with Greater Tulsa Health Access Network to build an HIE (health
information exchange) in the Tulsa, Okla., metropolitan area using Covisint’s
ExchangeLink cloud platform.
Greater THAN is a…
In a new partnership with Chinese Range Technology Development and the Hebei provincial bureau of industry, IBM will build the largest, most advanced cloud-enabled data storage center in China. – In March 2010, IBM announced that it
would begin investing big time in selling and building cloud computing systems
in China.
On Jan. 24, the huge American IT company made good on at least part of the
promise by announcing that it will partner with Chinese Range Technology
Development and the…
Boustead Singapore says wholly-owned subsidiary, Boustead Salcon Water Solutions, the water and wastewater engineering specialist, has won a $25 million contract to design, engineer and construct a demineralisation plant at the Tembusu multi-utilities complex owned by Tuas Power.
Boustead Salcon will partner Boustead Projects, the specialist in industrial real-estate solutions to deliver the Demin plant.
Keppel FELS Limited (Keppel FELS) has secured new orders from Clearwater Capital Partners, LLC (Clearwater) to build a pair of premium KFELS B Class jackup rigs at US$360 million ($462 million).
The two high specification jackups are scheduled for delivery in 1Q 2013 and 2Q 2013 respectively.
As part of the agreement, Clearwater has options to build another two similar jackup units with Keppel FELS. If exercised, the options for the additional two rigs will bring the total contract value to above US$730 million.
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It won the contract from Singapore LNG Corporation (SLNG), and expects to complete the project by early 2014. The additional tank will allow the terminal to handle up to 6 million tonnes per year (tpy).
It won the contract from Singapore LNG Corporation (SLNG), and expects to complete the project by early 2014. The additional tank will allow the terminal to handle up to 6 million tonnes per year (tpy).
Mainboard-listed Rotary Engineering has secured a $14.6 million Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract to add new facilities to an existing plant on Jurong Island for chemicals company Stepan Asia Pte Ltd.
Mainboard-listed construction group Tiong Seng Holdings says wholly-owned subsidiary Robin Village Developments is building a $26 million prefab hub to supply pre-cast concrete components. The 19,000 sqm mechanised prefab hub, to be completed in the third quarter of 2011, will double its current output to more than 100,000 cubic metres of pre-cast components annually.
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If you are a recruitment firm or recruitment department of any company, you can build a Strategic Recruitment Asset by capturing and building on several thousand resumes and job applications that you receive every month.
Keppel Corp (KPLM.SI), the world’s biggest rig maker, has won an order to build a jackup rig worth US$180 million ($236 million) from Singapore-listed offshore drilling firm Jasper Investments (JASP.SI) with an option for another similar unit.
If exercised, the option of the additional rig will bring the total value of the contract to about US$365 million.
Mainboard-listed Hu An Cable Holdings, the China-based wire and cable manufacturer, says it recently acquired 61,335 square metres of land in Jiangsu Province for RMB21.2 million ($4.18 million) to build its RMB88.9 million copper rod plant.
The land is located adjacent to the group’s existing production facilities, with a tenure of 50 years. Once completed, the plant will triple its annual production capacity of copper rods from 21,000 tonnes to 75,000 tonnes by September 2011.
Zeon Corp. plans to build a plant in Singapore to make synthetic rubber for tires. The Japanese company plans to begin production in July 2013, according to a statement on its website today.
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Keppel FELS Limited (Keppel FELS) says it has secured an order for a KFELS B Class jackup rig worth about US$180 million ($236 million) from Jasper Investments Limited (Jasper), with an option for another similar unit. The rig is slated for delivery in 2H2012. If exercised, the option for the additional rig will bring the total contract value to about US$365 million.
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Sembcorp Marine’s subsidiary Jurong Shipyard has secured two turnkey contracts with a combined value of up to US$400 million ($525.2 million) to build two jackup rigs with options for another four jackup rigs from a subsidiary of Noble Corporation.
If all four of the options are exercised, the total estimated value of the six jackup rigs is expected to be in the region of US$1.2 billion.
News Analysis: With Apple planning on launching its Mac App Store soon, the question arises about whether or not this puts more pressure on Microsoft to open a Windows-based app store of its own. – Even
though Apple is planning on launching its Mac App Store to 90 countries on Jan.
6, some of the attention in the OS space must now turn to Microsoft. The
venerable software company has millions of customers around the globe using
Windows. That makes it seem like the perfect fit and time to d…
Now that offshore outsourcing is waning, American companies are returning onshore to achieve their unfulfilled aspirations.
STX OSV Holdings, the designer and shipbuilder of offshore and specialised vessels, says it has secured a new contract for the design and construction of a Platform Supply Vessel of PSV 09 design for an undisclosed customer. It also did not say how much the deal was wortth.
