Leading engineering group Monadelphous Group Limited (MND) announced it has secured water and transmission pipeline construction contracts in Western Australia (WA) with a combined value of approximately $180 million. The first is for Rio Tinto’s Coastal Waters Project at Bungaroo Valley in the Pilbara region of WA. The contract comprises the construction and installation of a potable water supply system that will deliver 10 gigalitres per year of potable water from the Bungaroo Valley to the West Pilbara Supply Scheme at Millstream, WA. The system includes a bore field, approximately 15 kilometres of collector main and 87 kilometres of transfer pipeline and a transfer pump station. Work is expected to commence in the first quarter of the 2012 calendar year and is scheduled to be completed in the first half of the 2013 calendar year.
The second contract, awarded by Chevron Australia, is for the preparation and construction of a CO2 injection pipeline and well sites on the Gorgon Project, Barrow Island, WA. This contract, secured through Monadelphous’s transmission pipelines business KT Pty Ltd, comprises installation and pre-commissioning of seven kilometres of underground pipeline, five well sites and associated facilities. Work will commence immediately and is scheduled to be completed in the first quarter of the 2013 calendar year.
“These contracts support our objective of sustainable growth through the continued expansion of our infrastructure business and they build on our long term relationships with blue chip customers,” Monadelphous Managing Director Rob Velletri said. The latest contracts take the total value of new work secured by Monadelphous in the 2012 financial year to more than $1.5 billion.
Monadelphous Group Limited is a leading Australian engineering group providing services to the resources, energy and infrastructure industry sectors. The company has a solid track record in the safe and effective delivery of complex and large-scale engineering construction projects and maintenance and industrial services for industry throughout Australia.



