Kentz secures €285m contract

IRISH engineering group Kentz has won a €285 million contract via a joint venture agreement to build a village to house construction workers who are due to begin work on a major gas field development off the coast of western Australia.

The AIM-listed, Clonmel-headquartered company, whose main interest is in the provision of electrical and engineering services to the global oil and gas exploration industry, has won the Aus$500m (€284.5m) contract through the Perth-based engineering/construction firm, Decmil Group – the joint venture between Kentz and Australian mining company, Thiess.

The project is for the construction of a village on the offshore Barrow Island to house 3,300 builders who are working on developing the Gorgon Gas Fields on behalf of Chevron, Exxon Mobil and Shell.