Aker Kvaerner is to provide the basic and detailed engineering design and offshore procurement services for PetroquímicaSuape's new Purified Terephthalic Acid (PTA) plant, to be built at the Port of Suape, Pernambuco, in North East Brazil.
UNICEF Supply Division is responsible for offshore procurement on behalf of UNICEF Country Offices, headquarters and Procurement Services partners, and for oversight of all UNICEF procurement.
Aker Kvaerner is providing the basic engineering design, technical advisory services, and certain offshore equipment procurement service.
Shady middlemen dominated state procurement, using offshore companies to syphon cash to insiders, while inflating prices the government paid for crucial goods.
Santos Ltd has awarded the Subsea 7/Clough Offshore consortium the engineering, procurement, installation and commission contract for the development of the subsea Mutineer-Exeter oil fields, located on the north west coast of Australia.
It would contain a broader version of the the NAFTA-style investor rights that promote job offshoring, ban Buy American procurement preferences and roll back financial regulation.
In July, Wood Group Mustang and Wood Group PSN jointly secured a detailed engineering and procurement scope for an offshore development in Canada, and are working more closely together in the US, Australia and elsewhere.
Although the majority of the procurement is now processed offshore, UNICEF is still handling and looking for local procurement opportunities, especially for constructions activities.
Project flexibility in procurement procedures that allowed offshore purchase of project inputs, assisted in ensuring project implementation during times when most development focused programmes and projects were folding.
Last week an excoriating report from the Australian National Audit Office said the Department of Immigration and Border Protection had wasted millions of taxpayer dollars on offshore detention because it failed to comply with commonwealth procurement standards.
A subsidiary of J Ray McDermott SA has been awarded a contract by Qatargas Operating Co Ltd to provide engineering, procurement and installation services for the Common Condensate SPM Facilities Project, offshore Qatar.
