Mining Magazine > Panorama > Monadelphous contracts update

Engineering group Monadelphous announced on August 19 that it had secured major maintenance and construction contracts with a combined value of approximately US$374.1 million.
The contracts are with key customers in the Queensland coal industry and the West Australian oil and gas and alumina industries.
The new work in Queensland comprises: a three-year contract, valued at approximately US$106.9 million, with BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) for dragline and shovel shutdown work across its Bowen Basin coal operations; two contracts, totalling approximately US$106.9 million, for civil, structural, mechanical and electrical work to supply and install an overland conveyor and a drift conveyor as part of the extension project at the Rio Tinto Coal Australia-managed Kestrel Mine near Emerald; and two contracts with BMA’s Project Delivery Group for ongoing construction work on various sites in the northern region of the Bowen Basin over two years.
The new work in Western Australia includes a new contract with Woodside to provide mechanical commissioning support for its Pluto LNG Plant on the Burrup Peninsula, which is expected to be completed in the first half of 2012. This follows an initial major structural, mechanical and piping contract for the Pluto LNG Project which commenced in 2009 and is in the final stages of completion. It also has a new three-year contract to provide minor capital project services for BHP Billiton Worsley Alumina’s Refinery Project at Collie, which formally extends a continuous services relationship with Worsley Alumina that began in 2004.
Rob Velletri, Monadelphous managing director, said: “These contracts further reflect the importance we place on developing long-term relationships with quality customers. They demonstrate our continuing involvement in major projects and our commitment to support growth in the Queensland coal industry.”