Middle East 

Abu Dhabi, the key regional hub, continued to strengthen with a healthy mix of project management and engineering projects, including the significant EPCM contract on the Emirates Aluminium Al Taweelah Smelter project with SNC Lavalin, and pre FEED studies for a potentially world-scale petrochemical plant recently awarded from Chemaweyaat.

In Saudi Arabia, WorleyParsons continues to deliver a broad range of engineering services, from straightforward minor plant modifications to leading project management contractor roles on mega‑projects such as the mine and associated chemical plants at Jalamid and Ras As Zawr for Ma’aden, and the delivery of Improve services through contracts such as the Maintain Potential Program for Saudi Aramco’s offshore facilities. Today the Saudi operation has five Eastern Province offices located in Al Khobar, one Western Province office in Yanbu and a newly opened offshore office in Bahrain.

Elsewhere in the region, in Oman we continue to deliver engineering and maintenance services for Petroleum Development Oman through an Improve style contract, as well as completing the Select phase of a significant gas project for BP. The Oman office currently employs in excess of 90 Omani nationals. In Qatar we are now the largest in‑country service provider, executing a number of Improve contracts and engineering projects. Meanwhile in Kuwait, we were awarded a five year project management contract with Kuwait Oil Company involving an in‑country team and workshare with Houston

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