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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Azeus Systems Holdings, the Hong Kong-based provider of IT consultancy services, says it has won a five-year contract worth HK$69.97 million ($11.5 million) from the Hong Kong government to provide maintenance services for 53 application systems in a major department.
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The 4G-enabled Dell Streak 7 tablet will reportedly arrive on the T-Mobile network Feb. 2 for $200, or for $450 without a contract. – The 7-inch
Dell Streak will be available on the T-Mobile network starting Feb. 2,
according to a report from Electronista. Itll reportedly be priced at $200
with a two-year contract (and after a $50 rebate) or $450 without a contract
and for use with a prepaid data plan.
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change the…
Keppel says it has secured a contract worth about US$416 million ($532 million) from Discovery Offshore to construct two harsh environment jackup rigs based on its proprietary KFELS Super A Class design.
The jack-ups are scheduled for delivery in the first and second half of 2013, respectively.
Mainboard-listed R H Energy says it has been awarded with a US$7.9 million ($10.1 million) contract to provide emergency shutdown valve system to be installed along the 492 km gas pipeline from Changqing gas field to Hohhot, Inner Mongolia.
Wang Hairong, Executive Chairman and founder of the group, says, “We are very privileged to work with our customer, Inner Mongolia West Gas Corporation, on this project which is scheduled to be completed and delivered in the second half of 2011. The repeat order is another endorsement of our track record as a premier service provider in the oil and gas industry in the PRC. Including this latest award, we had been awarded a total of US$16.4 million orders by Inner Mongolia West Gas Corporation.”
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Singapore’s Sembcorp Marine (SCMN.SI), the world’s second largest rig builder, said on Thursday it has signed up to $182 million ($233.5 million) jack-up rig contract with a wholly-owned unit of Atwood Oceanics.
The rig is scheduled for delivery by the end of June 2013 and Sembcorp said the contract is not expected to have any material impact on the consolidated net tangible assets per share and earnings per share of the firm for the year ending December 2011.
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Mainboard-listed Technics Oil and Gas, one of the leading full service integrators of compression systems and process modules for the global offshore oil and gas sector, today announced that it has been awarded a $23.5 million contract from a Middle East oil & gas company for the engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning (EPCC) of process equipment for early production systems.
With a project duration of eight months, the group will deliver process equipment for early production systems consisting of wellhead manifolds,test separators, three phase separators, gas KO drums, flare KO drums, heater treater, scraper traps, corrugated plate separators, hydrogen sulfide removal module and flare stacks and burners.
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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.
ST Electronics says it has been awarded a contract to supply an Automatic Fare Collection System (AFCS) for the extension of the Bangkok Mass Transit System (BTS) Sukhumvit Line in Bangkok, Thailand.
The contract was awarded by The Krungthep Thanakom Company Limited (KT), a Bangkok Metropolitan Administration Enterprise.
ST Electronics is the electronics arm of public-listed ST Engineering.
Shares of shipbuilder STX Offshore and Specialised Vessels (STX-OSV) <STXO.SI> rose as much as 4.5% on Friday after it said it secured a contract worth NOK600 million ($132 million) to design and construct an offshore subsea construction vessel.
At 9:53 a.m., STX OSV shares were up 1.8% at $1.13 on a volume of 5.1 million shares.
The vessel is scheduled for delivery in 2012, the firm said in a statement. It did not disclose the name of its customer.
Ezra (5DN.SG) is +2.4% at $1.71, a three-week high, as it continues to recover from a nearly seven-month low of $1.63 touched earlier in December.
The offshore oil and gas support company has underperformed peers, down 8.2% since 2H10’s start, compared with the FTSE ST Oil & Gas Index’s +23.8%, partly on disappointment with its quarterly results and the company’s persistent delays in taking delivery of new vessels.
The Singapore Court of Appeal overturned an earlier ruling that said the bank wasn’t entitled to payments from Motorola, according to a decision released publicly today.
STX OSV (MS7.SG) extends gains, +8.7% at $1.00 vs $0.955 at the end of the morning session, as a midday announcement by the company of a new shipbuilding contract piques interest.
The Norway-based firm will build a platform supply vessel for an unnamed international company, bringing the total number of ships under construction to 50.
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.
The dawn of the contract technology worker era is here, and its blossoming in numbers never seen before, finds two reports. Mobile development in Android, iPhone and Facebook, HTML5 and Adobe Flash skills are hot now and in 2011. Hourly rates on two of the largest freelance job boards, however, show not much more earnings than an assistant managers rate at Starbucks. – Were
not trying to beat a dead horse here, honestly. Freelance, contract and online
jobs are for real. And if you have the right technology skills, well, you can
piecemeal steady and consistent work in hot areas following the buying patterns
of consumers.
The economy has been somewhat stagna…
Howard Stern is staying put at Sirius XM. The shock jock revealed on his radio show Thursday that he had signed a contract that will keep him live and uncensored on the satellite airwaves for another five years. Stern’s current five-year contract, for which he was paid $500 million, expires Dec. 31. Although Stern did [...]
