Kentz has won a $38m (€27.3m) engineering contract in Venezuela — via its US-based oil and gas handling subsidiary, Valerus — representing the group’s fourth significant international contract win inside the past month.

Kentz — the Irish-founded engineering services group — closed 2013 with a pipeline of outstanding work projects, worth $15.6bn (€11.4bn); up 18% on the previous year.

Irish-headquartered construction and engineering firm Kentz, has taken over a US-based Valerus Field Solutions for $435m (€316m) in what is a major expansion for the company.

Irish-founded engineering services group, Kentz has secured a second major contract win in under a week, yesterday announcing the award of a five-year framework contract for general engineering services on the SAMREF refinery in Saudi Arabia.

Kentz has been awarded a $190m (€141m) three-year contract with Qatar Petroleum, the announcement of which helped boost its share price by over 2% yesterday.

Engineering services group Kentz has said it remains on track to deliver double-digit earnings growth this year.

An oil and gas engineering group is to keep its independence after fighting off takeover interest from British and German rivals.

Shares in the Ireland-founded international engineering services group, Kentz, fell by almost 10% yesterday, after one of the two companies linked to a takeover of the firm withdrew its interest days before the final deadline for binding offers.

Oil and gas-focused Irish engineering firm Kentz Corporation, a target of potential takeover interest, delivered an upbeat outlook for the industry in its first-half results yesterday.

A British oil engineering company has made an approach to buy Clonmel- based Kentz for up to £680m (€797m).

Clonmel-founded engineering group Kentz is subject to takeover speculation linking British engineer Amec to an £800m (€938m) bid as Amec attempts to grow its oil and gas division.

In the past couple of weeks, a Scotsman conquered the world’s most prestigious tennis tournament.

The Irish-founded international engineering services group Kentz has strengthened its presence in Africa, by winning a near €30 million contract to build support services for an industrial infrastructure network in Mozambique.

Irish-founded international engineering services group, Kentz has said that its cash position has remained strong into 2013 and provides “considerable financial flexibility” to support the group’s strategic growth plans.

With a blue chip client base of some of the world’s top oil, gas and mining companies, and with its work backlog valued at $2.73bn, engineering group Kentz is confident about its growth plans, CEO Christian Brown tells John Daly

An Irish engineer robbed and murdered while working in Mozambique was killed for the cash he was carrying to pay local workers, detectives believe.

An Irish engineer robbed and murdered while working in Mozambique was killed for the cash he was carrying to pay local workers, detectives believe.

The body of a young man murdered by carjackers in Mozambique will be buried in his native Cork next week.

Engineering group Kentz Corporation revealed in a trading update to the London Stock Exchange that it has more than $2.5bn (€1.8bn) of contracts on its books.

Kentz, the Irish-founded engineering services group, has been awarded a $50m (€38.3m) support services contract with the Russian subsidiary of US oil and gas giant, ExxonMobil.

An engineering solutions business headquartered in Clonmel, Co Tipperary, has posted half-year profits before tax of €40.8m.

Kentz Corp, the Clonmel-headquartered oil and gas engineering company whose clients include Exxon Mobil, fell the most in eight months in London trading after two directors agreed to sell shares.

Specialist engineering company Kentz has an order book of $2.44bn (€1.85bn) and recorded an 18% rise in pre-tax profits to $79.4m (€59.4m) last year, the company has disclosed.

HUGH O’DONNELL is to stand down as chief executive of Kentz — the Irish-founded construction and engineering services group — next month, after 12 years at the helm.

KENTZ, the oil and gas industry construction company, said its backlog of work had risen 52% at the end of the third quarter, compared to the second, and predicted continued double-digit earnings per share.

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CLONMEL engineering firm Kentz posted a 50% rise in first-half pre-tax profit, driven by its construction and technical support services units, and said it expected to exceed its previous targets for the full year.

IRISH engineering services group, Kentz — which earlier this week reported a 52% increase in annual profits — is seeking to switch its primary share listing from the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) to the main list of the London Stock Exchange (LSE).

KENTZ, the Clonmel-headquartered international construction and engineering services group, has increased its full-year dividend for shareholders by nearly 70% on the back of a strong 2010 performance, which saw pre-tax profits rise by 52% to $67.5 million (€48m).

KENTZ Corporation, founded in Clonmel in 1919 has secured a $35 million (€25.5m) contract from the National Petroleum Refiners of South Africa (Natref).

KENTZ Corporation, the global engineering and services group which employs 10,000 people internationally, has delivered strong first-half results.

THE Clonmel-based international contracting group Kentz Corporation reports that the current year has started well.

CONSTRUCTION and engineering services group, Kentz is targeting new business orders of about $1 billion (about €740m) in value this year and the expansion of its international presence to four new territories.

Cork engineering group Kentz had profits before tax in 2009 of €33m.

Irish engineering company Kentz today reported a 9.2% rise in pre-tax profits to $44.5m (€32.9m) for the year to end December, 2009.

IRISH companies are missing out on opportunities in Russia, according to Enterprise Ireland’s “Man in Moscow”.

CONSTRUCTION and engineering group Kentz has signed a potentially lucrative long-term international service deal with global oil and gas giant ExxonMobil.

INCREASING global demand for oil has strengthened the already upbeat operational outlook of the Co Tipperary-based engineering and construction services company, Kentz.

KENTZ, the Clonmel- headquartered engineering and construction services company, has begun the new year positively, by winning a $69m (€48m) contract to build the main processing plant for a significant new coal project in Mozambique.

IRISH engineering services company Kentz has been awarded an $85 million (€57.3m) contract to build support services in Qatar, in a deal which brings the company’s total project pipeline to $1.5 billion in value.

KENTZ, the Clonmel-based international engineering company, has reported a 10% increase in first-half profits on turnover that was flat over the period.

KENTZ – the Clonmel-headquartered engineering firm – has won an €87.6 million (Aus$150m) add-on infrastructure contract to a development it is already working on in western Australia.

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.