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Bulletin
December 2010
Issue No. 96
Yes. We are
there ... Mate!
CONSOLIDATED
CONTRACTORS
COMPANY
From the Desk Of...
Here’s wishing you a happy holiday season and all the best for the New Year.
management and employees for their contribution to the success
I want to thank all of our m
and growth of the group. We will be starting 2011 with a healthy and diversified backlog.
CCC has a flexible entrepreneurial management style which enables it to grasp opportunities
as they appear and adjust quickly to market changes but at all times in a well studied
conservative manner.
I want to extend my thanks and congratulations to:
• Samih and his team for landing the Qatari Diar contract. This contract spans several
countries.
• Moujalli and his team for expanding into PNG and Australia.
• Nazih, Shams Dabbagh and the Wood Group for the recent award of the PDO
maintenance contract in Muscat.
These new mega ventures in diversified locations and disciplines attest to the flexibility and
adaptability of CCC, its staff and systems.
In the last five years we managed to more than double our revenues. We went through a
boom-bust economic cycle in our traditional markets. The boom period of fast expansion
necessitated a substantial investment in new construction equipment, facilities and staff
recruitment. CCC managed these requirements prudently, it invested when needed; looked for
alternative sources of financing (lease agreements, long term financing, and so on); managed
to procure and deliver scarce construction equipment on time; raised rental rates for PMV
assets to market levels then to help quickly reduce debt levels; maintained a comfortable
compensation level for staff without following the prevailing wild gyrations of the market.
These actions and many others which were much maligned by many during the boom cycle
were the reason why CCC was able to weather the bust cycle comfortably while many other
organizations and, may I say, countries, have foundered.
I emphasize again the need of the new ventures listed above to use MOA support to benefit
from and help enhance our systems and procedures to meet the new challenges. These tools
and the professional teams behind them are there to help, not to restrict our operational
groups. They also safeguard CCC’s long term corporate health.
I would like to extend my thanks to all MOA teams and especially HR, PMV, IT, Legal,
Accounts, Finance and Controls Departments. They were and will be instrumental to the
current and future success of CCC.
I encourage you all to join me in embracing opportunities available to us via these new
ventures as well as the new and promising prospects in our traditional markets and disciplines
that we expect in coming years.
Tawfic S. Khoury
Editor’s View
Dear Bulletin Readers,
This Bulletin brings the good news of geographical expansion and growth into the Pacific.
Australia and Papua New Guinea seem very promising
for us.
In today’s global economy, a well-planned and prioritized geographic expansion strategy is a must. If managed
properly, geographic expansion can help us to gain access
to new markets and to new talent pools; two prime ingredients in corporate sustainability.
Geographic expansion comes with rewards and risks.
Corporate executives need to navigate unfamiliar territory, create business partnerships that have good connections, and customize their offerings to the country’s culture and market dynamics.
Successful expansion requires in-depth knowledge and
know-how in several key areas namely regulatory environment, political climate, business opportunities, potential
risks, and prospective client base.
We are entering there in fast track mode, so speed to
market will prove critical and we need to refine and re-define our logistical and supply channels counting on nearby
Chinese sources where the quality and cost allow it, and
the talent pools of the Pacific to enrich our international
culture and pot of expertise.
Area Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) will now be
fully engaged in building a mature, sustainable business
development and controls-oriented organization.
The time for the Pacific expansion is very right and in
good hands. Good luck to all.
Nafez Husseini
Mail Bag
There is always a way to succeed: a few years ago l used
to say it was a dream, but now it is a reality.
After I graduated with a Masters degree in Architecture,
I signed a job offer in Qatar with the prestigious CCC
Company, for which I have been working since 3 March,
2006.
While coming over to Qatar to establish my professional path, I received a call from my university in Ukraine,
which expressed sincere recognition over my Master’s
thesis being elected first among other universities, and
conveying supportive advice to carry on further with my
education.
Upon the thrilling news, a sense of responsibility and excitement rose in my heart, and I took the initiative to expand my studies in Architecture, aiming at earning the
Doctor of Philosophy degree. Not to mention the mental
support I received from CCC, which I extend my thanks
and gratitude for giving me the opportunity, while working with it, throughout the academic path.
Bulletin Issue 96 / December 2010
It was one of the critical moments of my life. I presented
my PhD thesis, which analyzed the interaction between
western and eastern architecture in the gulf countries. I
was very pleased to include many CCC projects as part of
my thesis that was highly appraised by the university academic board. Indeed, I am very glad for the achievement I
made after many years of efforts, work and dedication.
It is with great delight that I announce this accomplishment because it changed my life in many ways and has given me great prospects for the future. I really hope that this
achievement will give motivation to other employees.
I owe special appreciation to CCC for standing by me
throughout my academic path. I have the honour to say
that CCC, the great firm, not only constructs huge and
strong buildings but also builds great minds and develops
solid determination.
Nabil Nawaf Shaheen, PHD
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Recent Awards
Engineering and Maintenance Contract (EMC) South
Oman
The owner is Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) and the duration of the project is five years
starting on 1 January 2011.
The owner is Petroleum Development Oman L.L.C.
(PDO)
LNG Offsites and Utilities
The main contractor is Wood Group CCC Ltd. (a 50/50
joint venture formed in 2008 between Wood Group and
CCC).
The award date was 27 October, 2010.
The contract duration is seven years, with a further
three-year extension option.
The project is located in the south of Oman.
The scope of work in general covers on-plot, the entire south concession area assets, in three main locations:
Nimr, Bahja and Marmul and consists of terminal facilities, infrastructure assets and government gas assets, including engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning of green and brown field EMC projects and
maintenance support.
The scope will require us to set up a project office and
design house (for 200+ engineers) in Muscat and also includes:
• FEED and EPC front-end design, detailed design,
procurement and construction for all engineering
projects (with a CAPEX up to US$15m in value).
Papua New Guinea
The purpose of the PNG LNG project is to construct
two LNG trains with a capacity of 3.1 MTA each with all
its associated utilities and offsite facilities. The onshore
portion of the PNG LNG Project will be constructed on a
green-field site located within 28km of Port Moresby.
The overall project is divided into the following main
packages:
• Site preparation.
• Process unit consists of two trains.
• Utilities and offsites.
• Non-process buildings (awarded to CCC).
• Storage Tanks.
• Loading Jetty.
CCC’s scope of work is the construction of the utilities
and offsite package and the following units will be constructed:
• Power generation.
• Ad-hoc works including road construction (excluding
well site access), road maintenance, and emergency
pipeline repairs.
• Water system.
• Maintenance and ad-hoc maintenance support.
• BoG compressor.
• Commissioning support services.
• Effluent/retention pond.
• Sourcing and logistics.
• Module substations.
Procurement & Construction Contract for Mechanical
Projects & Associated Works, Shuaiba Refinery
Kuwait
The project is located in the existing refinery of Shuaiba,
State of Kuwait and the scope of work is of a multidisciplinary nature maintaining the existing refinery which
consists of:
• Mechanical
• Civil
• E and I
• Air and nitrogen system.
• Flare system.
• Feed gas pipeline (1.6 km).
CCC’s scope involves the following construction activities: civil works, packaged substations, piping works,
equipment installation, structural steelwork, electrical
and instrumentation, precommissioning and commissioning assistance.
The client is ExxonMobil and the main contractor is
Chiyoda-JGC JV (CJJV).
Construction works will start in April 2011 and completion is planned for the end of June 2013.
• HVAC.
The project involves implementation of engineering
packages for small to medium sized projects related to
HAZOP study recommendations, safety, environment,
improvement of existing facilities, trouble-shooting and
installation of new facilities.
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Recent Awards
South Yoloten Project Construction Package 1 (Gas
Processing)
telecommunications interface buildings including finishing, landscaping, and electro-mechanical works.
Turkmenistan
The main portion of the works is:
The Turkmenistan South Yoloten Project is aimed to
develop the South Yolotan-Osman natural gas field in
eastern Turkmenistan, which is one of the world’s largest undeveloped deposits. The project is located in Mary
Province, around 500km southeast of the capital (Ashgabat); the overall programme includes four gas processing
trains with a total production capacity of 20 billion cubic meters a year with all the associated utilities and offices, works on the wells, gathering pipelines/flow-lines,
gathering stations and product pipelines to support the
four trains.
1. Midfield telecommunications building (mtb)
(1,155 m2).
2. Midfield telecommunications building substation
(147 m2).
3. North telecommunications interface building
(735 m2).
4. South telecommunications interface building
(651 m2).
The project is split into several packages, indicatively
as follows:
The employer is the Government of the State of Qatar
represented by New Doha International Airport Steering Committee. The employer’s engineer is represented
by Overseas Bechtel Incorporated (OBI).
• Two trains of gas processing and sulphur recovery
units (Package 1).
The award was for commencement on 25 November
2010 with a duration of 13 months.
• The other two gas processing trains (different EPC
contractor).
Upgrading of Tunduma to Ikana Road
• Utilities and offsites (Package 2).
Tanzania
• Site preparation / access roads.
Construction and upgrading of 63.7km of road from
gravel to bitumen surfaced. Work includes several concrete box culverts and drainage ditches.
• GTU’s.
• Base de vie / base industrial / buildings.
• Pipelines / trunk lines / flow lines.
• Power generation / power transmission (with import
from grid).
CCC’s scope of work is the overall construction of
Package 1 (gas processing) which includes reception facilities, acid gas removal dehydration gas dew-pointing,
metering, condensate stabilization, sulphur recovery, tail
gas clean-up and pelletisation. CCC’s scope involves piping erection (excluding fabrication), equipment erection,
civil works, steel structure erection, electrical and instrumentation, painting and insulation.
The client is the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs and the job is partly funded by the US Millennium
Challenge Account.
The award was granted in September 2010 and the completion date is expected to be July 2012.
The owner is Turkmengas and the Main Contractor is
Petrofac International Limited. Construction is expected to start in March 2011 and to be completed in April
2013.
Midfield Telecommunications Building, Substation &
Interface Buildings, New Doha Airport
Qatar
The project is located inside the premises of the New
Doha International Airport in Doha, State of Qatar
which is currently under construction.
The contract consists of procurement and construction,
start-up and commissioning for the midfield telecommunications building and substation, and north and south
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Quality Management
The Cost of Quality
Introduction
Placing a cost figure on quality is difficult: accounting
systems are not designed to capture the true cost of quality and there are some hidden costs never captured.
An emphasis on quality cost may create supportive forces by identifying and eliminating the cause of nonconformance that leads to higher productivity; or opposing
forces by misguided quality efforts in specifying unrealistic tolerances and conducting full inspection to perfection.
From a practical point of view many companies see quality as a key customer requirement and consider as a key
factor for achieving competitiveness. Any serious attempt
to improve quality must take into account the costs associated with achieving quality since the objective of continual improvement is not only to meet customer requirements, but also to do it at a lower cost.
Definifion of the Cost of Quality
There is no general agreement on a single definition of
quality cost. However, based on the ASQC “American
Society for Quality Control” model, the quality cost consists of conformance cost and nonconformance cost. Most
quality cost models are based on the P-A-F “PreventionAppraisal-Failure” classification. Armand Feigenbaum in
1943 first devised a quality costing analysis and reporting system based on P-A-F. This was followed by Joseph
Juran who initiated the concept of quality costing and the
graphical form of the COQ “cost of quality” model. This
model is illustrated in Figure 2 which illustrates that by applying appraisal and prevention, the failure cost may be
reduced to zero.
The Cost of Poor Quality
In construction or manufacturing the cost of poor quality may be very low or very high. From a general concept,
this cost is affected by where the failure has occcurred.
In principle, the rule of 1-10-100 applies in the following manner:
• Failure cost 1X: if failure detected in your work area.
• Failure cost 10X: if failure detected in your organization by another department.
• Failure cost 100X: if failure detected outside your organization by your customer.
This is illustrated in Figure 1.
Figure 1
The cost of poor quality may run very high if discovered
by your customer after delivery of a product or service.
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This is also in line with 6-sigma programme,
where 6-sigma represents 3.4 defects in 1 million
opportunity. Optimal conformance level may represent the accepted level of failure for a certain organization. Beyond this level, the organization may continue to invest in appraisal and prevention to achieve zero
defect level. This is usually applied on complex projects
where failure may end in disaster, such as, nuclear power plants. However, with the improvement of technology,
zero defect level is considered today as an achievable target, already proved by many industries by applying 6-sigma programme.
Armand Feigenbaum later proposed the now widely accepted quality cost categorization of prevention, appraisal and failure “internal and external” costs. Ross in 1977
developed the Process cost Model that focus on process
rather than product or service. Process cost is the total
cost of conformance and nonconformance for a particular process. The conformance cost is the actual process
Quality Management
...The Cost of Quality
cost for producing products or services first time to the required standard, whereas cost of nonconformance is the
failure cost associated with the process not being executed to the required cost per unit of the product. 1
Conformance Cost
These are the costs incurred to ensure that product or
service conforms to specified requirements. Conformance cost consists of prevention cost and appraisal cost:
Prevention Cost
Costs associated with all activites designed to prevent
defect in product or service. These costs are used to build
awareness of quality management system and to keep the
cost of appraisal and failure to the minimum. For example:
Internal Failure Cost
Internal failure costs are incurred prior to shipment of
the product or delivery of a service to customers. Internal failure costs would disappear if no defects exist in the
product. Examples of internal failures are:
• Scrap: a defective product that can’t be economically repaired.
• Failure Analysis: cost of analysis of defect to determine cause.
•Quality Planning / The cost of development of quality management system.
• Reinspection/Retesting: cost of reinspection and retesting after rework.
•Quality Audits / Evaluation of quality
management system implementation
and effectiveness.
• Rework: the cost of correcting defects.
•Training / Cost associated with training.
•Process Control / Cost associated with
implementation and monitoring of
processes used for product acceptance.
•Suppliers’ Evaluation / Evaluating suppliers’ quality system prior to selection.
•New Product Review / Costs of quality
issues related to new products.
Figure 2
Nonconformance Cost
These are the costs associated with products or services
that do not conform to specified requirements. Nonconformance cost consists of internal failure cost and external failure cost.
Appraisal Cost
Costs associated with measuring and
evaluating the product or service quality
to ensure conformance with specified requirements:
• Incoming Inspection / Cost of inspection of product at
incoming stage.
• In-process Inspection / Evaluation of the product during fabrication or construction.
• Final Inspection / Cost of evaluation for final acceptance.
• Quality Audit / Cost associated with product or service quality audit.
• 100 % Inspection: cost of finding other defective products in a lot.
• Cost of downgrading due to quality reason.
External Failure Cost
External failure cost is the cost of discovered defects after product shipment or service delivery. This type of defect is extremely costly to correct, proper system should
be in place in order to avoid such defects. The following
categories of cost represents external failure costs:
• Warranty Charges: cost of repair or replacement of
products within the warranty period.
• Returned Materials: costs of receipt, processing and
return of defective product.
• Complaint Adjustment: cost of investigation and adjustment of justified complaints.
• Allowances: costs of concessions made to customers
due to substandard product being accepted.
Cost of Nonconformance “CCC”
CS & QMD has generated a Cost Impact Report related
to nonconforming products. This requirement has been
established as a result of a high management directive.
Cost impact assessment due to correction of nonconformances covers the following items:
• Material cost.
• M & T Equipment / Cost of calibration and maintenance.
• Labour cost.
• Evaluation of Stock / Cost of testing or evaluation
product in stock to determine deterioration.
• Other costs not identified in the above categories.
• Construction equipment cost.
The Cost Impact Report “CIR” is generated by the person responsible for correction of nonconformance or by
his supervisor. The Project Control Manager and the
Quality Manager maintain a complete file related to CIR
to be used for trend analysis and lessons learned.
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Quality Management
...The Cost of Quality
The Project Quality Manager is required to include the
CIR summary in the project monthly quality report.
Conclusion
The organization should have a corrective system to
eliminate defects in products and services, and a preventive system to eliminate the cause of potential nonconformity. In addition, measuring and evaluating the
process used for construction or manufacturing is also required. Major emphasis should be put on eliminating any
defect or problem that could be detected by an external
customer after delivery of a product or a service; such defects may also cause loss of market share. The proportion between the cost of repair or replacement of product against the cost of warrantees, claims penalties and
loss of market share is illustrated in the “quality iceberg”
(Figure 3).
1 Armand Feigenbaum, Joseph Juran and Ross: Quality
Experts
6-sigma: Is a business management strategy originally
developed by Motorola. It seeks to improve the quality
of process output by identifying and removing the cause
of defects and minimizing variability in product and
business process.
1. Cost of repair, rework or replacement of defective
product
2. Cost of warrantees, claims, penalties and losing market share.
Mounir Soufyan
Figure 3 - “An iceberg is not only what you see above the waterline”
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Feature
Australia: Another Flag is added to the CCC Group
As part of the group’s expansion, CCC established Consolidated Contracting Company Australia Pty. Ltd. in
2010.
CCC Australia will take an active part in all disciplines
together with McConnell Dowell, starting with pipeline
EPC contracts. Currently CCC and McConnell Dowell
(MCJV) have signed two gas pipeline contracts and are
negotiating a third contract in Queensland.
The outlook for the Australian construction industry is
very promising especially in the area of liquefied natural
gas (LNG). It is expected that seven new LNG projects in
northwest Australia and four projects in Queensland will
increase the country’s LNG production capacity to 59 million tonnes per annum by 2017.
In September 2010 our President, Said Khoury, accompanied by EVPO Samer Khoury, Moujally Jabara, Rashid
Shuhaiber and Walid Jabara visited Australia for the first
time to inaugurate the new Area establishment.
Hassan Seoudi
Country Manager
from left to right: Walid Jabara, Rashid Shuhaiber, Moujally Jabara, Said Khoury, Nicolas Paraskevas, Hassan Seoudi, Leong Teoh, Samer Khoury, Walid
Noureddin
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Feature
Coal Seam Gas to Liquefied Natural Gas
Introduction
Australia is well known for its mining industry. Over the
past few years, gas reserve exploration and discoveries in
various regions of Australia, both on-shore and off-shore
from petroleum fields have promoted Australia to being
one of the leading players in the gas industry. It is anticipated that by 2015 Australia will become one of the top
five countries in gas production and export in the world.
Coal Seam Gas (CSG), which is also known as coal
seam methane, occurs naturally within coal deposits. In
Queensland’s major coal resource ‘basins’ there are many
coal seams existing from close to the surface to those
many hundreds of meters underground. Coal seam gas
was formed when the coal itself was formed and has been
held within the coal under pressure. In recent years and
particularly in Queensland, coal seam gas has become an
important source of natural gas as the extensive coal basin deposits contain large resources of CSG.
Coal Seam Gas
CSG is a natural gas. It occurs when coal is formed deep
underground over millions of years of heating and compressing decomposing plant matter.
Over time, the gas becomes trapped in coal seams by
water, typically 200-1,000 meters underground. When the
water is removed, the pressure that has kept the gas in
place changes, allowing the gas to flow.
Apart from methane, coal seam gas contains little or
no other amounts of hydrocarbon gases such as ethane,
propane and butane. Coal seam gas typically has only
small amounts of carbon dioxide and nitrogen. As such,
it is considered a cleaner gas that requires relatively little
treatment before use in industry and households.
Coal Seam Gas Extraction
CSG is extracted through wells drilled into coal seams.
When the water is pumped out, the coal seam gas is released from the coal. If the pressure within the seam is
high, gas may flow through the cleats to the surface unaided. Conversely, the gas may have to be pumped to the
surface if the pressure is low. Water in the gas is separated above ground and the gas is compressed and transported by pipelines to end users.
CSG to LNG
Coal seam gas produced from the coal basins in Queensland will be transported via transmission pipelines and fed
into the liquefaction plant (part of the LNG plant) where
it will be super-cooled to create liquefied natural gas, otherwise known as LNG.
The coal seam gas feedstock contains 98 per cent methane, one per cent nitrogen and one per cent carbon dioxide. Because these small
amounts of other gases are
more difficult to liquefy and
are not able to be burnt when
the LNG is returned to natural gas, they are removed at
the gas plant prior to the liquefaction process.
Currently CCC, in joint
venture with McConnell
Dowell of Australia, is involved in two out of the four
major coal seam gas projects
in Queensland, building the
main transmission pipelines
that deliver the compressed
coal seam gas to the LNG
plant sites on Curtis Island in
the Gladstone region, southeast Queensland. Once completed, the LNG plant sites
on Curtis Island will be the
first LNG centre in the world
to use coal seam gas to supply major LNG facilities.
Zahi Ghantous
MCJV Deputy Project
Manager
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Feature
Australia Pacific LNG Pty. Limited (APLNG) Upstream Pipeline Project
In December 2009, the joint venture of McConnell
Dowell Constructors (Aust.) Pty Ltd and Consolidated
Contractors Company Australia (MCJV) was awarded
the early works contract for the pipeline component of
the Australian Pacific Project in Queensland.
APLNG is a 50:50 incorporated joint venture of ConocoPhillips (COP) and Origin established to develop extensive coal seam gas reserves, process and deliver the
gas to a liquefied natural gas facility at Curtis Island near
the industrial city of Gladstone and export LNG to world
markets. The APLNG Project will initially consist of two
approximately 4.5 Mtpa LNG trains with two more 4.5
Mtpa trains planned for the future. When all four trains
are completed, the project will ultimately export up to 18
Mtpa LNG.
Whilst the APLNG Project development is the responsibility of Australia Pacific LNG Pty. Limited, delivery responsibility has been allocated as follows:
• Prepare the EPC pricing package for the scope which
will be issued to MCJV for pricing.
• Prepare the pricing package for the remaining scope
(high pressure gas network and water lines).
• Complete an EPC risk adjusted lump sum price for the
MCJV scope on an open book basis.
The MCJV will work with APLNG to execute an EPC
lump sum contract for the MCJV scope. It is anticipated
that the contract will be established by the fourth quarter of 2010 with commencement being conditional on a
final investment decision (FID) by APLNG at the end of
2010. Subject to FID, it is anticipated that the EPC contract will commence in early 2011 with construction commencing in early 2012 and completion by the end of 2013
to allow commissioning of the LNG facility for first export in late 2014.
• COP for downstream operations, being the LNG
plants, shipping and marketing.
The APLNG pipelines early works contract is the first
project awarded to CCC in Australia and CCC looks forward to successfully meeting the challenges of the project
along with its joint venture partner McConnell Dowell.
This is a significant milestone in CCC’s forward vision in
support of its efforts to enter new regions like Australia
and open new markets in the South West Pacific Region.
The MCJV portion of the pipeline component of the
APLNG Project scope constitutes the following:
Zahi Ghantous
MCJV Deputy Project Manager
• Origin for upstream operations, being gas field development, gas and water gathering and processing and
delivery to the LNG plants.
• A 90km gas lateral (Wollebee).
• A 78km gas lateral (Condabri).
• A 360km gas transmission pipeling to the LNG plant.
The APLNG pipelines are part of the upstream development scope which includes also gas wells and a gathering system, gas processing facilities, a high pressure gas
network and water treatment facilities.
The early works scope for the APLNG pipelines is to be
part of an integrated team (client and contractor) delivering the project FEED summarized as follows:
• Review all pre-FEED documents.
• Complete and deliver FEED.
• Assist with project planning and procurement (free issue material).
• Participate in the line pipe mills pre-qualification process and visits.
• Design input to route selection and alignment sheets.
• Survey and preliminary geotechnical and LIDAR studies.
• Permits and approvals.
• Execute the early works scope and contractual deliverables.
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Feature
CCC in Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea occupies the
eastern half of the rugged tropical island of New Guinea (which it
shares with the Indonesian territory of Irian Jaya) as well as numerous
smaller islands and atolls in the Pacific. The central part of the island
rises into a wide ridge of mountains
known as the Highlands, a territory
that is so densely forested and topographically forbidding that the island’s local peoples remained isolated from each other for millennia.
The coastline is liberally endowed
with spectacular coral reefs. The
smaller island groups of Papua New
Guinea include the Bismarck Archipelago, New Britain, New Ireland
and the North Solomons. Some of
these islands are volcanic, with dramatic mountain ranges, and all are
relatively undeveloped.
Nearly 85 per cent of the main island is carpeted with tropical rain
forest, containing vegetation that is a combination of
Asian and Australian species. The country is also home to
an impressive variety of exotic birds, including virtually all
of the known species of birds of paradise, and it is blessed
with more kinds of orchids than any other country.
Papua New Guinea’s climate is tropical, as one would
expect in a country located just south of the Equator. December to March is the wet season, although occasion-
al rain falls year-round. While Port Moresby, the capital,
and other towns on the coast are quite hot in the summer months, temperatures are considerably cooler in the
Highlands.
PNG is one of the most diverse countries on earth, with
over 700 indigenous languages and at least as many traditional societies, out of a population of just under 6.5 million. It is also one of the most rural, with only 18 per cent
of its people living in urban cities. The country is one of
the world’s least explored, culturally and
geographically, where
many undiscovered
species of plants and
animals are thought
to exist in the interior
of Papua New Guinea.
PNG LNG, led by
Esso Highlands Ltd.
- an ExxonMobil subsidiary, is an integrated development that
includes gas production and processing
facilities in the Southern Highlands and
Western Provinces of
PNG including liquefaction and storage facilities (located northwest of Port Moresby
on the Gulf of Papua)
with a capacity of 6.6
million tons per year.
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Feature
...CCC in Papua New Guinea
The investment for the initial phase of the project, excluding shipping costs, is estimated at US$15 billion. Over
the life of the project, it is expected that over nine trillion
cubic feet of gas will be produced and sold.
The Engineering, Procurement and Construction of the
PNG LNG Buildings Project
This project was awarded to CCC in July 2010. The main
contractor is Chiyoda /JGC Joint Venture (CJJV).
PNG LNG will provide a long-term supply of liquefied
natural gas to major LNG customers in Asia.
The project is located in the PNG LNG plant facilities,
approximately 30km from Port Moresby.
The EPC5B Komo Airfield and Infrastructure Project
This part of the PNG LNG development, was awarded
to MCJV, the joint venture between McConnell Dowell
and CCC, in December 2009.
The scope of work comprises the detailed design, applying local and Australian codes and standards, the procurement and construction of 31,876m2 of process and nonprocess pre-engineered structural steel and reinforced
concrete framed buildings, including HVAC, plumbing, fire-fighting, electrical, telecommunications and fire
alarm, finishing and architectural works.
The project is located in the Southern Highlands Province of PNG, some 800km away from the city Port of Lae.
There are no passable roads between the capital, Port
Moresby and the Southern Highlands; hence all ground
transportation is initiated from Port of Lae. The purpose
of the airport construction is to fly in major components
for the gas conditioning plant, located at Hides, in the
Southern Highlands.
The project consists of building a 3.2km runway, drainage works, terminal buildings, a lighting system, a communications system, fuel farms, fire fighting facilities and
security fencing along with associated utilities. It also includes building a 21km heavy haul road along with two
bridges and associated drainage, road signs, as well as
slope and erosion protection works.
Major civil quantities include 10 million m3 of earthworks, 700,000 tons of crushed sub-base, 700,000 tons of
crushed base course, 14,000 m3 of concrete, and 240,000
m2 of asphalt paving.
PNG LNG Utilities & Offsites Project
This project was awarded to CCC in December 2010.
The main contractor is Chiyoda/JGC Joint Venture
(CJJV).
The scope of work comprises the construction of power
generation, a water system, an air and nitrogen system, an
effluent/retention pond, module substations, a flare system and a feed gas pipeline (1.6km).
Major quantities include 28,000m3 of concrete, piping
(240,000 I.D), equipment installation (5,400 MT), steelwork (2,500 MT), electrical and instrumentation.
CCC has proven one more time its strength and capabilities in the field of engineering and construction in the international arena and again raised its flag in another area
of the world.
Walid Jabara
Area Manager, ACP
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Papua New Guinea: Facts and Figures
When I was first approached to join Area Papua
New Guinea, I had barely
heard anything about it and
really didn’t know where it
was. When some of the connoisseurs heard about the offer they wondered if I was
willing to go to a place which
I knew nothing about!
Four months after first arriving in PNG, I can confirm
that we are all still up and
running.
In early October 2010
CCC’s PNG staff were honoured with the visit of our
President Moallem Said accompanied by Samer Khoury,
EVPO, Moujally and Walid Jabara. These gentlemen
insisted on visiting our pioneers at the Komo Airfield
Project, which is in the middle of the highlands and the
tropical forests of PNG, as
well as the PNG LNG site outside Port Moresby.
For those who, like me, do not know much about PNG,
here are some facts and figures:
• Population: 6.5 million.
• Capital: Port Moresby.
• Area: 462,840 km2.
• Languages: 715 indigenous languages with English being the business language.
• Religion: Protestant, indigenous beliefs, Roman Catholic.
• People: Melanesian, Papuan, Negrito, Micronesian,
Polynesian.
• Currency: Kina
• Life Expectancy: 57
• Nominal GDP: US$8.16 billion (2008)
• Literacy Percentage: 66
• Economy: Industry - copra crushing, palm oil processing, plywood production, wood chip production; Agriculture - coffee, cacao, coconuts, palm kernels, poultry;
Exports - oil, gold, copper ore, logs.
Papua New Guinea is an island country in the western Pacific which gained independence from Australia in
1975. It consists of the eastern half of New Guinea Island, the two large islands of New Britain and New Ireland, more than 300 small islands and the autonomous region of Bougainville.
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PNG has a land area slightly larger than California. The
country has 5,152km of coastline and is the largest country and the largest economy in the Pacific Islands region.
PNG shares a border with Indonesia’s Papua province
to the west and with Australia in the Torres Strait and
Coral Sea to the south. It shares a maritime border with
the Solomon Islands to the southeast.
The capital city, Port Moresby, is situated on a spectacular natural harbour on the southwest coast of PNG’s
mainland.
An abundance of minerals and petroleum brightens the
outlook for this tropical nation. A patchwork of mountains, jungles and swamplands, the country is home to
some 700 Papuan and Melanesian tribes, each with its
own language. Most of the inhabitants are subsistence
farmers, although some grow cash crops.
Its population is amongst the most ethnically diverse in
the world.
In PNG, CCC currently has two projects:
• The construction of Komo airfield project in joint venture with McConnell Dowell, with Exxon Mobil being
the client.
• The engineering, procurement and construction of the
process and non-process buildings at the PNG LNG
project, as subcontractor to the Chiyoda-JGC Joint
Venture, with Exxon Mobil again being the client.
Abdallah Akkad
Area Manager, PNG
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The PNG LNG Project
The following article has been extracted from the Oil Search
Limited website.
The PNG LNG Project is an integrated upstream natural gas and liquefied natural gas (LNG) development, operated by ExxonMobil. The project has a common ownership structure across the value chain which includes:
• Upstream facilities, comprising 12 well pads at the
Hides, Angore and Juha fields, production wells, gathering systems and processing plants at Hides and subsequently Juha in the PNG Highlands.
• Associated gas facilities at Kutubu, Moran and Gobe.
• LNG liquefaction plant, storage and loading facilities
located at State Portion 152, near Port Moresby.
• A gas pipeline from the main upstream processing
plant in the PNG Highlands to the LNG plant near
Port Moresby.
Discovered gas reserves committed to the project exceed 9 tcf. Approximately 80 per cent of the gas supply
will come from the Hides, Angore and Juha gas fields,
with the main gas processing plant located at Hides. The
remainder of the gas supply will come from the Kutubu,
Moran and Gobe main producing oil fields, operated by
Oil Search. Total reserves will support a production plateau of 14-15 years based on 1P reserves and over 20 years
based on 2P reserves. The project will utilize the existing
liquids export pipeline from the PNG Highlands to the
coast and the oil loading terminal owned by the PL 2 Joint
Venture Group.
The construction of the project is based on well established and proven gas infrastructure and plant engineering and design, which mitigates the risk of cost overrun
and delay. The liquefaction process that is being utilized
is Air Products C3/Multi-Refrigerant, which is currently
in use in a range of LNG plants globally.
LNG from the project is fully contracted to four key buyers, comprising TEPCO and Osaka Gas from Japan, CPC
from Taiwan and Sinopec from China. The LNG has been
jointly marketed, with ExxonMobil acting as marketing
representative on behalf of the project participants.
The capital cost for the initial phase of the development
is estimated at US$15 billion.
Oil Search’s participating interest in the project is 29 per
cent.
The project will provide a major boost to the PNG economy, more than doubling the country’s GDP and tripling
export revenues and create significant employment opportunities.
Abdallah Akkad
Area Manager, PNG
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CCC and the Komo Airfield and Associated Works Project
CCC’s entry into Papua New Guinea was via the Komo
Airfield Project, one of numerous packages that are part
of the multibillion dollar LNG schemes, with the client
being Exxon Mobil. We are in partnership with McConnell Dowell, an Australian company, on this and a few
other projects in Australia.
Papua New Guinea, one half of the exotic island just to
the North of Australia that we always wondered about
when looking at a world map - has been blessed or cursed
- only time will tell - with abundant gas reserves. The LNG
scheme involves construction of a pipeline, gas plants and
export facilities at the coast near the capital city of Port
Moresby. Towns and cities on the coast are generally inhabited by people who have a certain degree of exposure
to the outer world, whilst the people of the hinterland are
still living in a very primitive manner. There is no road
network to speak of linking the interior of the country to
the coastal towns, and therefore there is great disparity in
development between the interior and the coastal areas.
The project entails construction of the longest airfield
(3.2km) in the Southern Hemisphere, deep in the Southern Highlands, capable of receiving the largest air transporter in the world - the Russian Antonov. The airfield
will be used to fly in the materials and supplies for the
construction of the Hides Gas Plant, 20km to the north,
the road also being part of the JV’s scope.
Construction of what is basically a very long and flat
landing strip would not usually elicit much excitement.
However, the project involves moving 9,000,000 cubic metres of earth as cut and fill in one of the most inhospitable
places on earth. In order to construct the airfield we are
tasked with clearing 165Ha of dense rainforest and then
literally moving mountains to achieve our objective.
The project location is 800km from the main seaport
(the City of Lae) through which we receive all our plant,
equipment and supplies. This road, our only overland
supply line, is for the most part unsurfaced and can be impassable for weeks at a time due to torrential rains, landslips and general disrepair. Maximum speed on this road
does not exceed 50km/hr over the good stretches. The
time it takes the convoys to reach site will vary from three
to four days (when we are lucky) to a few weeks.
On arrival in the country, after a brief stay at our project
support office in Brisbane, Australia, I proceeded in a
twin Otter propeller plane to Tare - the closest town with
an airstrip. The next 15 minutes was via chopper to where
the project staff were being accommodated - an eco lodge
120km away from the site. That would be our only mode
of transport to and from site for the next two months until our pioneer camp was up and running.
store. Being a tropical country, it would rain at 3 to 4pm
almost every day - and this was still not officially the rainy
season that locals said ran from October to February.
Within two months, we had received a large part of our
plant including 70 40-ton ADTs, dozers, front end loaders and excavators. We had set up our pioneer camp and
the key personnel had moved in. Support staff still flew
in from the lodge on a daily basis. Faced with numerous
challenges on site from weather, an untrained workforce,
daily landowner disputes resulting in work stoppages, lack
of government authority and order, we then proceeded to
expand our pioneer camp to its present capacity of 150,
while we have also started work on our 600-man camp.
In parallel, permanent works have commenced on site
and we are confident that the delays to date will be recouped with the support of ExxonMobil. The spirit engendered by EM towards the joint venture is of a one
team approach, and one can only have praise for the way
they have communicated their message and is something
we feel in our daily dealings with them on site.
This project is still facing challenges every day. The work
stoppages have become infrequent although landowners
still pop up from time to time laying claim to their already
compensated land and attempting to stop the works. A
special unit of the police force is stationed in Komo.
The challenges also include keeping our workforce motivated. This is a very remote area, there are no villages or
towns nearby, and you must ensure you have enough personal supplies (shampoo and toothpaste, for example) to
last until your next R&R, or arrange for it to be sent up
from Port Moresby.
The visit of Said Khoury, Samer Khoury, Moujalli Jabara
and Abdallah Akkad to the site in September lifted the
spirits of all CCC staff as they got a chance to meet with
them and voice their concerns.
This is one of the most challenging projects I have been
involved in, for all the reasons mentioned previously, but
with the CCC spirit and our commitment and dedication
to the tasks at hand, we will overcome all obstacles and
ultimately succeed in delivering the project to the client’s
satisfaction.
Nizar Attieh
On site, we had set up at the Catholic Mission where we
used an old timber building that would serve as our site
office and half of Father John’s garage was used for our
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...CCC and the Komo Airfield and Associated Works Project
Airfield 1st Day
Pioneer Camp levelling
Airfield after some cleaning
Pioneer Camp early days
Main Camp site cleaning
Terminal Building Site
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MCJV Hosts 500,000 Hours Lost Time Free Celebration
The MCJV recently hosted a major celebration at the EPC5B Project site in Komo to celebrate 500,000 man-hours lost
time free at the airport site.
This colourful celebration was marked by traditional Huli dancers in full tribal dress. One of our safety officers, Phil
Jacka, dressed as a warrior and took enthusiastic part in the dancing. After the dancing and a number of speeches to mark
the event, the whole workforce and part of the community had a traditional feast consisting of pigs and chickens cooked
in the ground in the traditional style called the mumu.
As MCJV is now an additional clan in Komo in the Southern Highlands, we participated in the event by offering all the
food items.
Our goal is to see our CCC-MCJV clan grow bigger and bigger in the coming bright future in PNG.
Dimitri Nasr
Administrator
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Oceania
Geographical diversification has been one of the major
contributors to CCC’s success. CCC’s venture into Africa in the late 1980’s was the product of Said Khoury’s
geographical diversification initiatives, which was initially
met with speculation, as many believed CCC should concentrate solely on traditional areas.
For the last three years, I have been personally following
up on Papua New Guinea and the Oceania area with the
blessing of the owners.
CCC’s successful entry in Papua New Guinea and Australia is a momentous event that required efforts of all the
departments; Sales, Estimation and Proposals, Treasury,
Plant, Quality, HSE, Legal, HR, Corporate Planning, to
name but a few. There will be a large number of diverse
opportunities in Mining, Oil & Gas and Civil within Oceania for CCC to succeed in the next decades, and this success hinges on the cooperation and seamless approach of
us all working together.
Our entry into Oceania with major projects includes the
Komo Airfield and PNG LNG Buildings in Papua New
Guinea and the APLNG and the prestigious QCLNG
projects in Australia. This is not just a story of geographical diversification but rather it is a story of partnerships
and alliances. McConnell Dowell and CCC have again
joined forces to create a partnership based on shared values and goals, and our differences in company culture and
style create strength and value.
There will be potentially large environmental, cultural
heritage and legislative challenges that we will encounter in Papua New Guinea and Australia, which will once
again give CCC the opportunity to thrive and exemplify
our core strengths.
We have to mark this moment now by drawing on all the
strong CCC elements, strengths and expertise and executing these significant projects. These core strengths are
derived from each of the departments, disciplines and regional areas within CCC, and with this synergy CCC will
prove that we can cover the globe.
Moujally Jabara
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Area News
Yemen
The Aden Hotel Project - A Challenge
The Aden Hotel, owned by the
Ministry of Tourism, is an existing
hotel building and is a landmark in
Aden City. A complete refurbishment contract was negotiated with
and awarded to CCC on a cost-plus
basis. The hotel consists of nine
floors with 104 guestrooms, 78 super rooms and 14 suites including
all other facilities to be found in a
five-star hotel. The work is scheduled to be executed in two phases.
Phase 1 was planned for completion by 31 October 2010 to provide accommodation for the GCC
Games (Khaliji Ishreen) scheduled
to be held in mid-November 2010.
Phase 2 is planned for completion
by 24 June 2011.
This extremely fast track project
has been a great challenge to the CCC team. Over a period
of four months the original scope for Phase 1 was to deliver the seven floors which include the restaurant, the main
kitchen on the first floor, the ground floor lobby/reception area and the bedrooms. On top of this tight schedule,
major changes to the original scope of work transpired
during the period of construction. These changes and additional works had to be confronted with the completion
date remaining unextendable, making the challenge even
more complicated.
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Ahmed Kiblawi (centre) surrounded by project staff
With the greatest of efforts and with the full cooperation and close coordination among the sub-contractors involved, we were able to deliver Phase 1 before the start of
the GCC Games.
Ahmed Kiblawi
Project Manager
Area News
Qatar
The Qatalum Project (QRA) - Striving for Excellence
Qatalum is one of the largest greenfield aluminum
projects ever to be executed in a single phase. Located in
Mesaieed, 40km from the capital Doha it is a 50:50 joint
venture between Qatar Petroleum (QP) and Norwegian
Norsk Hydro. It will be one of the largest and most competitive primary aluminum plants in the world, with
a production capacity of 585,000mt per year (Phase
1) and the expected total cost of the project will
reach US$5 billion.
and tolerances (largest elements over 45t).
6. Exceptionally harmonious working relations with both the contractor and the
company.
SNC-Lavalin Canada was the main contractor
for the engineering, procurement and construction
(EPCM) of the services area and potroom building (SA&PB) and in turn awarded CCC the largest
lump sum subcontract for the scope of work comprising potrooms 1 and 2 (each 1,250m long with 704
pots); five buildings with ramps; a workshop maintenance building and related infrastructure.
Qatalum’s success is a combination of the low cost
and significant resources of natural gas in Qatar,
coupled with Hydro providing one of the most efficient and environmentally friendly technologies in
the world.
This project, which constituted the introduction
of CCC to the aluminum industry, was constructed
on a fast track basis during which the CCC project
team achieved the following exceptional accomplishments:
from left to right: Bassem Salem (PM), Walid Nahoudi (CM), Issam Dawani (PCM)
1. A record-setting fast track construction pace (weekly
progress over four per cent).
2. Daily structural concrete cast over 1,200m3 (total: over
150,000m3).
3. Exceeding 10 million manhours without a lost time incident.
4. Use of special material (FRP reinforcement rebar).
5. Precast element production under stringent quality
With the high construction progress achieved, CCC took
a leading role in providing open work fronts for the subcontractors. Qatalum quickly seized the opportunity to
accelerate the construction schedule and requested CCC
to formally provide specialized manpower assistance to
international subcontractors on the project.
Accordingly, this new client continued to favour CCC as
a major subcontractor and awarded CCC directly with additional works. CCC in turn consistently proved their ability to handle an expanding scope of work, providing the
required diversified resources and resolving major technical issues related to aluminum smelters.
The first metal production was achieved, as originally planned, in December 2009, in a recordsetting time of 19 months from the first concrete
and this was only the beginning. With the Qatari
government desirous of diversifying the country’s
economy, Qatalum will be the catalyst for the development of downstream production facilities in
the future.
The planned completion of Qatalum Project
Phase 2 will boost production to 1.2 million mt per
annum.
Qatalum’s construction management openly expressed their gratitude to CCC for their leading
role in the project and confirmed that CCC is being seriously considered for the award of Phase 2
and possibly an EPC contract.
Potrooms - General View
Walid Nahouli
Construction Manager-Civil
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Area News
United Arab Emirates
SK Engineering & Construction / CCC Workshop
In line with the CCC management’s strategic initiative
to increase cooperation with
Korean and Chinese EPC companies, a series of exchange visits took place between
CCC management and SK Engineering & Construction
(SKEC) management to explore different cooperation
modes on several EPC projects.
A workshop was held on 25 and 26 October in Abu Dhabi
between the senior management of CCC and SKEC. The
workshop agenda focused on the identification of suitable
projects for cooperation, both in the Gulf and outside the
Gulf region. Top CCC and SKEC management in nearly
all their areas of operation were present at this workshop.
The workshop started with a brief introduction on the history and capabilities of CCC by Samer Khoury. This was
followed by a similar introduction by Casey Choi, President of SKEC. The workshop was a good opportunity for
management of different areas of both companies to exchange ideas, lessons learned and build direct communication channels. The Workshop was very successful in
achieving its objectives and the management of both companies agreed on a road map for future cooperation.
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SKEC, a part of the SK Group, is an engineering, procurement, construction, and maintenance services organization. SKEC has successfully completed several refinery and upstream projects through all phases from design
to purchasing, construction and test runs. Some of its successful projects include implementation of full-scale refineries in Kuwait, Brazil and Ghana. It is also engaged
in many international projects in the UAE, the United
States, Mexico, Bolivia, Colombia, Thailand, Malaysia,
Indonesia and China. One of its most successful projects
is the construction of the largest oil refinery complex in
Korea.
Jamal Akl/Amr El-Sersy
Area News
Oman
ASCS Employee of the Month
The A’seeb Sewage Collection and Conveyance System,
Al Khoud Gravity Sewage Project honours all outstanding members on a monthly basis, to encourage a friendlier
working atmosphere and ambiance for hard working, efficient and productive taskforces.
Section heads nominate staff and manpower of
all categories on a monthly basis and a selection
is made.
At the award ceremony for the month of August
2010 the project manager, Mazen Aker, distributed the prizes to the winners who were delighted
and expressed their gratitude to the management.
Mohammad Obeid
Project Administrator
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Area News
Greece
Third Arab-Greek Economic Forum, Athens
The Arab-Hellenic Chamber of
Commerce & Development, in cooperation
with the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises, organized the third Arab-Greek Economic Forum in Athens, under the auspices of the
Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the
General Union of Chambers of Commerce,
Industry and Agriculture for the Arab Countries (General Secretariat) which took place at
the Divani Apollon Palace Hotel in Kavouri
on 23 & 24 September, 2010.
The forum hosted many local and international visitors, the Greek government being
represented by a group of ministers and the
Arab countries being represented by a number
of ministers from Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Egypt, Libya and the United Arab Emirates. Many Arab and European ambassadors
attended the forum as well. Several specialists in different fields from Greece, Europe and mostly from the Arab
countries also attended the conference.
Said Khoury addresses conference
The forum was sponsored by many companies and organizations. Consolidated Contractors Company was the
Gold Sponsor as well as sending the largest number of
participants. On Thursday, 23 September CCC hosted a
dinner represented by the CCC team headed by Tawfic
Khoury, Samir Sabbagh and Dr. Saleh Jallad who gave a
welcome speech to the 350 guests.
The following day Said Khoury, Tawfic Khoury, Suheil
Sabbagh, Samir Sabbagh, Dimitri Economides, Yousef
Kanaan, Nasri Said, Walid Noureddin, Thomas Kafarakis
and Magdi Halawani were all present at the conference
sessions.
In the conference Dr. Saleh Jallad, CCC Group Vice
President Treasury, Insurance and Relations, and Vice
President of the Arab-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce &
Development, led the fourth session on the subject “Palestine: Revitalizing its Economic Life through Private Initiative”. H.E the Minister of National Economy of Palestine Dr. Hasan Abu Libdeh and Maher Hamdan, CEO
Palestine Trade Centre, took part in this session.
In the fifth session “Enhancing Cooperation through
Private Projects” Thomas Langford, CCC Group Vice
President, Investment & Financial Risk Management,
gave a presentation.
Parallel to the conference there was an exhibition of
Greek and Arab companies. CCC had a stand at this exhibition with the group being represented by Mrs. Alexandra Diga, Miss Katerina Koutsouki, Chrysostomos
(Makis) Papanikolaou, Yannis Yannoulis and Hani Elsafadi.
That evening the organizers prepared a gala dinner at
which the “Forum Conclusions” were delivered by Dr.
Athanase Lavidas, Vice-Chairman of the Board & Head
of International Affairs, the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises.
Dr. Athanase Lavidas
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Area News
...Greece
...Third Arab-Greek Economic Forum, Athens
At the award ceremony a tribute to CCC for
pioneering Greek-Arab business ties was presented to Said Khoury by Bantali Antar, President of the Arab-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce and Development together with H.E.
Theodoros Pangalos, Vice President of the
Greek government and H. E. Adnan Kassar,
Minister of State.
450 people were present at the award ceremony including from CCC Tawfic Khoury,
Mrs. Hala Khoury, Samer Khoury, Mrs. Rania
Khoury, Suheil Sabbagh, Samir Sabbagh, Dr.
Saleh Jallad, Mrs. Laila Jallad, Henry Tadros,
Fouad Khoury, Walid Noureddin, Abdallah
Attari, Magdi Halawani, Mrs. Alexandra Diga,
Miss Katerina Koutsouki, Yannis Yannoulis
and Hani Elsafadi.
Said Khoury gave a speech addressed to the
organizers, Mr. Pangalos and Mr. Kassar and
he expressed his gratitude towards the government and people of Greece by saying:
“There are rumours that Said Khoury is always trying to be close to the Greek people and
I’m not denying this because it is a duty. I will
never forget the time when the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was asked in 1982 why he was
leaving Beirut for Greece instead of going to an
Arab country and his answer was that he liked
to think of Greece as an Arab country. We came
to Greece in 1975 under the Law89 which gave
CCC and other foreign companies the privilege
of working under a special regime. When Greece
joined the European Union this privilege was
discontinued due to EU regulations. However,
the Greek government managed to reinstate the
Law89 with a few modifications as it is beneficial to the country and promotes foreign investment as well as facilitating the activities of foreign companies in Greece”.
Said Khoury, Theodoros Pangalos, Bantali Antar
Said Khoury and Theodoros Pangalos
Finally, a keynote speech was made by H.E.
Theodoros Pangalos.
On Saturday, 25 September an Athens sightseeing tour was provided for the Arab participants.
My gratitude and appreciation go to all
those participants who organized, assisted and
worked so hard to make this activity a success.
Hani Elsafadi
From left to right: Katerina Koutsouki, Samer Khoury, Yannis Yannoulis, Hani El-Safadi
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Area News
Jordan
Jordan Engineers’ Association Award
The Jordan Engineers’ Association invited CCC to attend a celebration in acknowledgement of companies who
had participated in recruiting and training new Jordanian graduates in the various fields of engineering and
information technology. The celebration took place at the
Landmark Hotel where the Minister of Public Works and
Housing, Dr. Mohamad Taleb Obeidat, was the guest of
honour who distributed the awards comprising a certificate and a trophy.
CCC and Orange were the only companies who were
awarded both the trophy as well as the certificate, whilst
the other companies were awarded the certificates. The
JEA arranged a dinner party after the celebration and
speeches were made by the Minister and the CEO of the
Jordan Engineers’ Association.
Suhail Halaby
AVP, Construction Management
Suhail Halaby (right) receives award
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Area News
Egypt
Barwa New Cairo Project
CCC Egypt is currently working on
the Barwa New Cairo Project on a site
of 860 hectares in the newly developed
New Cairo district. The overall project
is a mixed use development consisting of infrastructure works, soft landscaping works, commercial, retail, residential (approximately 44,000 units),
healthcare, educational and hospitality
facilities. When completed, the development will accommodate 120,000.
The current scope of works includes
the construction of a town centre consisting of world-class luxury retail, commercial and entertainment centres.
Future phases will include ring road
construction, residential areas consisting of apartment buildings and villas,
office tower buildings, business and retail hotels, five star hospitals, international schools, mosques, golf courses,
botanical parks and water features.
The client is Barwa Real Estate Investments, with QPM acting as Project
Manager and the main consultants including Yamasaki,
5 + Design, GRS, LLC –RMC+ECG, RNL among others.
Barwa New Cairo project staff
CCC commenced mobilization in June 2009 for the site
offices, facilities, construction of the VIP meeting building and service roads, street lighting and landscaping.
Rough grading works for phases (0 & 1) intended for the
hypermarket and retail centres commenced early September 2010, with first stage earth moving reaching approximately 4,000,000 m³. Concrete works are planned to
start in mid-January 2011.
Serene El Kreidi
Project Coordinator
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Corporate Social Responsibility
CSR News Report
Contribution to CSR Initiative
CCC Staff are encouraged to come up with ideas and activities related to CCC’s CSR Initiatives including Going
Green and community involvement events. Please send
your ideas, initiatives and achievements to “CSR-CCC”
email address [email protected]
Paperless Day
It was agreed with CCC Area and CM Management to
declare all Sundays a paperless day at the Area offices
and projects.
Jordan
The Hassib Sabbagh
Regional Academy for
Health, Safety and
Environmental Studies
An MoU was signed on
14 October, 2010 between
CCC and the Ministry of
Labour to renovate, develop and up-grade the existing Occupational Health &
Safety Institute at MARKA to be the Hassib Sabbagh Regional Academy
for Health, Safety & Environmental Studies and restructure it to be a Centre
of Excellence based on international standards.
Piping Supervision &
Technology Training Programme
Suhail Sabbagh (left) signs MoU
19 students graduated
from the one year Piping
Supervision and Technology Programme designed and
delivered by CCC and held at the Al Hoson College in Irbid. The ceremony was held on 14 October, 2010 and was
attended by Suhail Sabbagh, the Minister of Labour and representatives
of USAID and Al Balqa’
University.
for the Hassib Sabbagh Regional Academy for Health, Safety and Environment
Pipe Welding and Fabrication Programme - SAHAB
To date CCC has trained
and graduated in co-operation with the Jordanian
Ministry of Labour and the
Vocational Training Corporation 323 pipe welders
and 145 pipe fabricators.
Land Surveyors Training
with EFE/JCEF
To date CCC has trained
and graduated 40 land surveyors in co-operation with
the Education for Employment Foundation.
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Students graduate from the Piping Supervision & Technology Training Programme
...CSR News Report
Greece
Physiotherapy Training Bicycles
CCC has donated two training bicycles to the physiotherapy departments of the Social Welfare Centre for
Senior Citizens at the Municipality of Vyronas, suburb of
Athens. A letter of thanks was received from the president of the centre in which she expressed her appreciation to CCC for their kind gesture.
Greece Race for the Cure
For the second year running, CCC was one of the main
sponsors of the event “Greece Race for the Cure 2010”
that took place in Athens on 26 September, 2010. The
race was organized by “Alma Zois”, the Greek Association for Women with Breast Cancer in cooperation with
the American Association “Susan G. Komen”, and more
than 8,000 women, men and children of all ages took part
in the symbolic race. The purpose of this race is to make
people more aware of this illness and of the methods of
early diagnosis which nowadays can save many lives.
Kazakhstan
Social Activities
Kazakhstan’s CSR Team, as usual, continues to support
local communities. A few of their recent initiatives included a full day visit of playing music and singing with the
elderly; a donation of 50 food parcels for the needy families of Dossor and Makat Villages; a visit to the orphanage school in Dossor Village where they shared with the
orphans their inauguration party of the beginning of new
educational season 2010-11 and donated 300 sets of kitchen cutlery and crockery to the school. On the occasion
of the month of Ramadan and under the slogan of “Stop
Hunger”, the CSR Team donated 10 fresh lambs to the
orphanage association in Atyrau City and also celebrated
Thanks Giving Day with the children.
Tony Awad
Corporate Social Responsibility Officer
Qatar
Letter of Appreciation - Environmental Initiative
Ras Laffan Industrial City (RLC) Environmental Section have expressed to the project director of Ras Laffan
Port Expansion Project their appreciation towards the efforts, cooperation and dedication taken by the company
and its environmental team in maintaining and enhancing
the RLC conservation area. The entire conservation area
has been given an extensive turnover and the letter ended by saying “We recognize and regard your keen efforts
in the environment conservation of Ras Laffan and hope
CCC continues as a role model to others to support the
environmental protection and conservation efforts in the
industrial city”.
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The Palestine Youth Orchestra at the Athens Concert Hall (Megaron Mousikis)
The eclectic programme, conducted by Sian Edwards,
consisted of a classical piece by Haydn, a Gershwin medley from “Porgy and Bess”, three traditional Arab songs
and orchestral works by Arab composers Ahmad AlKhatib, John Bisharat and Issa Boulos. It was generally
agreed that the performance was highly accomplished at
a professional level.
Among the audience were Greek leaders of the main political parties as well as the former Parliament president
Apostolos Kaklamanis who is head of the Greek Parliament’s Greece-Palestine Friendship Committee.
The PYO invited five Greek guest musicians to join
them during this highly successful concert.
It is worth mentioning that The Palestine Youth Orchestra, of the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music,
was created in 2004 and consists of 75 young Palestinians
from the Palestinian territory, other Palestinian areas and
also the ones living in different countries all over.
Magdi El Halawani
Senior Administrator (Services & Relations)
On the occasion of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People (the previous
day), the Palestinian Youth Orchestra performed
a concert at the “Megaron” on Sunday, 28 November, 2010. The event was sponsored both by CCC
and its President Said Khoury, and the Athens
Concert Hall (Megaron Mousikis).
The young Palestinian musicians performed in
front of a packed audience consisting of different
ages and social ranking; a performance that many
a professional musician would have been proud
of.
This event was perhaps even more remarkable when one considers the troubled background
against which it has emerged, within cities such as
Gaza and Ramallah, and of course of Palestinians
in diaspora.
Rawan Elleyan a girl born in Gaza in 1991, Osama Diab (they both won the Palestinian National Music Competition of 2010) and also Oday Al
Khatab were able with their warm and rich voices
to touch the whole audience (even the people unable to understand the words) by performing three
well known Arabic songs.
The Palestinian ambassador to Athens, Samir
Abou Ghazaleh, made the welcoming address. The
Palestinian Authority and its president Mahmoud
Abbas were represented by Dr. Nabil Shaath.
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Environmental Workshop and Painting Competition for CCC Children
Since children are as Piaget (the renowned Swiss
developmental psychologist) described them, “active builders of knowledge – or - little scientists who
construct their own theories of the world,” raising
them on environmental awareness and on greener
ways of living will reconstruct their worldviews, values and beliefs according to these conceptions.
They will appreciate the environment and they
will try to protect it in the future. These perceptions
of the environment will become memories that permeate their minds and shape their thoughts and directions in the future. Moreover, using art to communicate these perceptions visually, helps to build
the self-esteem of children since they take pride in
the works of art they create. Art also helps to develop the problem-solving skills of children since they
are faced with unlimited questions on how to express the environment they live in.
As a result of the above, the CCC’s Corporate Social Responsibility Committee in Athens organized
a brainstorming interactive workshop on the 23 October, 2010 for the children of CCC staff to raise
their awareness and educate them on issues related
to the protection of the environment.
The workshop was organized in collaboration with
Mesogios “Mediterranean” SOS and took place at
the ACS in Athens where concepts on ecology and
the environment were raised, explained and discussed. The number of children participating was
23 and their ages ranged from 4 to 11. Through the
theme of our ‘Beautiful City’, these children’s imagination flowed to think of how to make our cities
greener, friendlier and harmonious with nature.
These children were divided into groups to discuss
issues such as water, recycling, ecological means of
transportation and so on. They collaborated with
team spirit and came up with recommendations
for beautifying our cities. Then they reflected on
what they absorbed and expressed them in painting and collage assemblage. They emphasized the
green and blue colours in their paintings; they included a lot of animals, birds, fish, crocodiles, trees,
the sea, flowers and the sun. They stressed using bicycles and saving water.
The CSR Committee congratulated each child
who participated and awarded him/her with an easel and colours and distributed them in a ceremonial way which made the children quite proud of their
achievement.
In appreciation of the efforts of these children and
as an encouragement to their parents, CCC-CSR in
Athens has assembled these paintings into a calendar which will be a memento of the first activity to
be organized by CCC regarding children and the
environment and it will be distributed to employees
at MOA and the areas.
Salma A. Shawa, PhD
HR-Training and CSR Committee Member
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21/11 - A Day with the Fire Brigade!
Firefighters and stories related to them never fail
to capture children’s fantasy, inspiring feelings of
bravery, courage and boldness. On a sunny November morning the MOA CSR committee offered the
opportunity to the children of CCC MOA employees to enter one of Greece’s most up-to-date fire
stations.
The visit took place a few kilometres east of Athens in the small town of Markopoulo that hosts the
Command of Fire Fighting Services of Eastern Attica, operating in its new quarters since 2004. The
well-equipped fire station is the operational centre
for a vast sector of several hundred square kilometres.
The event was scheduled and organized by the
MOA CSR Committee in close collaboration with
Brigadier and Chief Commander of the station
Anastasios Vlachos and the scientific advice of the
Head of Environmental Training of Primary Education in Eastern Attica, Sophia Perdikari. The visit
to the fire station was prepared and organized having in mind a dual objective that follows the principal commitments of the Corporate Social Responsibility team in Athens: the first and most obvious
aspect of this is to offer to CCC employees and their
families the opportunity to gain useful and on many
occasions necessary knowledge that might not be
obtained through other channels or fields of their
social life. Secondly and by no means of less importance is to help strengthen the bonds between the
expatriate community of CCC with the local population and culture by exchanging knowledge, experience and voluntary work.
Based on the above guidelines, apart from the
guided tour at the station, the visit included lots of
interaction for all participants. A detailed demonstration of the firefighting equipment, the communications/operational centre and the fire engines (a
once-in-a-lifetime ride included!), going down the
famous firemen’s slide (that allows the firefighters
be at the fire station’s gates within 40 seconds from
the time the fire alarm is given!), as well as discussions with the fire brigade and volunteers, equally interesting for children and adults were some of
the activities that took place within two hours. The
highlight of the day was a real-time drill and operation on a burning car professionally performed by
the personnel of the station.
Although the activity was organized and planned
initially for children only, it was the overwhelming
participation and enthusiasm shared by the parents too that made this Sunday morning a day to
remember. More than a hundred attendees equally split between children and adults made this initiative among the most successful ones organized by
the CSR committee in Athens.
Stamatis Koutsouflakis
HR and CSR Committee Member
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First Aid Training in Cairo
Nominated staff were trained by doctors at the
Red Crescent premises to provide temporary support in the event of a medical emergency by evaluating the required assistance needed and applying
the necessary first aid. The training included choking, laceration, wounds, cuts and amputations, minor and chemical burns, broken bones and sprains,
heat stroke and frost bite, heart attacks, accident injuries, and most importantly general awareness on
what should and should not be done in emergency
situations.
During mid-October, the CSR Egypt Committee organized with the help of the Egyptian Red Crescent a first
aid training programme for staff members from various
projects and offices in Egypt.
This learning experience was exciting for those
participating, with much applied training on the famous “Anne Doll”. The initiative was a great success and employees met international requirements
to become certified volunteer first aiders by completing the three-day training programme. This may
indeed protect staff members in the unfortunate
event of a medical emergency and we wish to thank
CCC management for this opportunity.
Serene El Kreidli
CCC Project Coordinator- Barwa New Cairo Project
(BNCP)
CSR Egypt Committee Member
A Gift of Water
partial or total damage to most water intake systems. Indeed, the need for water was, and still is, at
the time of writing these lines, viewed as the most
important commodity of the recovery efforts.
As a result of this urgent need, on Friday, 12
November 2010, CCC made a donation of four
hundred cartons of bottled water, sourced from
Grenada, to Miss Dawn French, Director of the
National Emergency Management Organisation.
The presentation was made at the NEMO’s headquarters by Nelson Louison on behalf of CCC,
who informed the NEMO representatives that “it
was a pleasure for CCC to give back to a country
that has given my company so much.”
On Saturday, 30 October, 2010, Hurricane Tomas impacted Saint Lucia with sustained winds in excess of seventy miles per hour and deposited twenty inches of rain
in 24 hours.
The Director of NEMO on receiving the donation thanked CCC for the donation, and said that,
“Saint Lucia can do with all the help it can get and
most of the water donation will be distributed to
the various homes for the elderly on the Island”.
Lorraine Neptune
Public Relations Officer, St. Lucia
The passage of Hurricane Tomas caused untold widespread damage to Saint Lucia’s infrastructure, agriculture
and livestock. While some communities sustained major damage others were declared and still remain disaster zones.
Saint Lucia was faced with an acute shortage of potable water immediately following Tomas as a result of
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A Complete House in Seven Days!
Consolidated Contractors Group S.A.L. (Offshore)
(CCC) is currently constructing an all weather road from
Mahalapye to Kudumatse (MKuRP) in Central Botswana. The client is the Central District Council and the work
involves the construction of 49km of main road and 3km
of access roads. The contract commenced on 2 November 2009 and is scheduled to be completed by 1 November 2011. Work has progressed well and the road works
are well ahead of programme.
The road traverses three small villages where the presence of a big contractor is a considerable economical factor. We are following a policy of employing local staff and
labour in collaboration with local authorities to ensure
that all villages benefit from our presence. The company also is involved in assisting the the local village governments by, among other things, the maintenance of soccer fields and local roads, especially across the Mahalapye
River.
After some discussions during the monthly site meeting
about the house, the management of MKuRP decided at
short notice that it would make a concerted effort to provide shelter for the woman and the toddlers before the serious rains would set in - and only we could do this. Members of the Mahalapye Sub Council of the Central District
Council were contacted and the next morning a site visit took place. The Sub Council would provide the building blocks for the house from a Poverty Alleviation Programme; CCC would provide all other materials and the
required manpower for the construction of a two and a
half room house with an outside toilet. The house would
be build under a scheme called into existence by the President of Botswana, Lt. Gen. Seretse Khama Ian Khama,
which called for the construction of shelters for the needy.
And CCC promised that it would be ready in 7 days - and
it would be built under the personal supervision of the
project manager.
Grandmother and children. The council had already provided the tent as a temporary shelter
At the end of August however a note was received from
the Mokoswane Village Development Committee to assist with the provision of a house for a very destitute lady,
who had been living virtually under a tree - together with
three tiny grandchildren. CCC immediately delivered
building sand and concrete stone to the proposed site of
the house. Building activities were however not getting off
to a start and by the early October no real work had been
done; however, a plot of land had been allocated.
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All arrangements were made the same day, approved
drawings were received, building inspectors were organised, and a concrete mixer, shuttering and material were
delivered to the site. We pulled both drainage teams with
their carpenters and masons off the work in progress and
the next morning at 7.00 hrs a start was made with the
foundation. During the morning members of the Mahalapye Sub Council arrived for a groundbreaking ceremony which was led by the Senior Assistant Secretary, Mr.
M. Moswete. At nightfall the foundation had been com-
...A Complete House in Seven Days!
pleted. On the second day
the walls went up and doors
and windows were installed.
At the end of day three all
the walls were up and the
rafters for the roof had been
placed. Also the pit and cover slab for the outside toilet
were completed. Day four
saw the plastering of the inside walls of the house, the
building of the outside toilet and the completion of the
roof on the house and the
toilet. We even went off early - because it was Sunday!
With the start of the week
work progressed well. On day
five the painting of the inside
walls started. The plastering
of the outside of the house
and was done and completed as well as the plastering of
the toilet. Day six saw lots of
painting and due to the high
temperatures the paint dried
rapidly. Window panes and
doors were installed and at
nightfall the house was lockable. On day seven the painting was completed and the
complete building site was
cleaned up, a pathway of
gravel was laid around the
house and to the toilet and
there we were: a complete
house in seven days!
Groundbreaking Ceremony on the first day: fourth from right: - the local councillor; third from right - the senior
assistant secretary to Mr. Moswete; far right - Rolf Beunink
In the meantime we handed
the keys to the house to the
76-year-old lady; we provided her with beds and sheets
and the four are safely installed out of the rain and
storms. The Mahalapye Sub
Council was maybe a bit
caught short by the speed of
it all and is currently making
arrangements for the President to come to our site to
take over the house and to
present it to its new owner.
We have long caught up with
the delay to the culverts and
have a now very proud team
on site which brags that “we
can build a house in 7 days!”
End of Day 7: the finished house and yard
Rolf Beunink
Project Manager - Mahalapye to Kudumatse
Road Project
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Sports & Leisure
The Qatalum Reduction Area Foundation Project Team Emerges Triumphant!
We are pleased to inform
you that the QRA cricket
team won the esteemed Medgulf Cricket Cup in a spectacular win over the Medgulf
team at their home ground in
Simaisma, Al Khor.
The tournament was held
by the Medgulf Cricket Club
in which 16 well known teams
in Qatar participated. Thanks
go to the QRA Project Management for their continued
support of our sporting efforts.
Irfan Abbas Syed
IT Support Engineer
The team holding the winning trophy with Bassam Salem, QRA Project Manager
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It’s not hard to believe that the most creative candles I
saw this Christmas were the ones decorated by children.
On 18 December at the Nargile Restaurant, the children of our CCC staff all walked in, one after the other, dabbed their harmless hands in glitter and glue and
wedged stars and butterflies into any bare spots of wax
remaining. Needless to say, the end results were not only
beautiful candles but, more importantly, excitement and
merriment! That was as far as we could see from our candle-making station anyway, until Santa Claus entered
Nargile and the kids all ran and formed a line before him
to collect their Christmas presents. Being the first time
I’ve participated in this event, that’s when I finally got a
clear view of what the CCC Kid’s Christmas Party was all
about. There were two angels by the door, candy and gifts
being distributed, Christmas ornaments and card decorating stations, jewelry making and letters being written
to Santa and a delicious lunch offered to everyone. The
children were all delighted and what had started off as an
event for the children eventually was a lovely occasion for
people of all ages!
Abeer Stefanou
CCC Kids Christmas party 2010 was a great
success! It was a pleasant day for us all, children and parents, to share the Christmas spirit and joy.
What a great idea it was to involve the children in the
festive season through creative activities. Parents enjoyed
sipping some warm tea/coffee with friends, while children
took great pride in demonstrating their creative skills
through various work stations; they were making their
own Christmas cards; writing letters to Santa; making
their very own bracelets using colorful beads; playing in
the jumping castle; painting Christmas tree decorations;
and enjoying a game of mini soccer (baby foot).
Santa Claus and his cute elves and angels were there
too, and this added a more imaginative sparkle to the atmosphere. Finally, my favorite part; food glorious food!
Nargile’s selection definitely pleased my and everyone
else’s taste buds.
We would like to take the opportunity to thank all the
lovely CCC Christmas party coordinators and volunteers;
you have our deepest gratitude for bringing a smile into
the hearts of our children.
Thank you Samir Sabbagh, Maria Vassilopoulou and Vivi Linardoutsou for organizing such lovely events!
Look forward to this year’s CCC family
day.
Maya Babti Bakri.
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This year’s Christmas party was somehow
symbolic.
The MOA staff were welcomed by CCC’s old and wise
alongside the young and future generations.
All this coincided with the President’s announcement
that there will be organizational changes in the New
Year.
The staff were also congratulated for a year that went
better than expected.
Moujally Jabara was then invited to talk about CCC’s
entry into the Pacific region. He highlighted its challenges
and the importance of partnerships and presented the
President with a plaque. The speech was well received.
We wish you all the best in the New Year.
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in Athens by volunteer staff.
All opinions stated herein are the contributors’ own.
Submissions (announcements, stories, artwork, etc.) are
welcome.
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Contents
FROM THE DESK OF..............................Tawfik S. Khoury
MAIL BAG - Nabil Nawaf Shaheen..................................…1
RECENT AWARDS.......................................................……2
QUALITY MANAGEMENT
- The Cost of Quality - Mounir Soufyan….....................…4
FEATURE: Australasia
- Another Flag for the CCC Group - Hassan Seoudi..........7
- Coal Seam Gas to Liquefied Natural Gas
Zahi Ghantous......8
- APLNG Pipeline - Zahi Ghantous.................................9
- CCC in Papua New Guinea - Walid Jabara...................10
- Papua New Guinea: Facts & Figures
Abdallah Akkad................12
- PNG LNG Project - Abdallah Akkad...........................13
- Komo Airfield - Nizar Attieh...........................................14
- Lost Time Free Celebration at Komo - Dimitri Nasr.......16
- Oceania - Mujally Jabara................................................17
AREA NEWS
- Yemen: Aden Hotel - Ahmed Kiblawi...........................18
- Qatar: Qatalum Project - Walid Nahouli.......................19
- UAE: SK/CCC Workshop - Jamal Akl/Amr El-Sersy....20
- Oman: ASCS Employee of the Month
Mohammad Obeid................21
- Greece: Arab-Greek Forum - Hani Elsafadi................22
- Jordan: Engineers’ Association Award
Suhail Halaby..............24
- Egypt: Barwa New Cairo Project- Serene El Kreidli.......25
CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
- CSR News - Tony Awad.................................................26
- Palestine National Youth Orchestra Concert
Magdi El Halawani........28
- Children’s Painting Activities - Salma Shawa...............29
- A Day with the Fire Brigade - Stamatis Koutsouflakis....30
- First Aid Training, Egypt - Serene El Kreidli...................31
- A Gift of Water - Serene El Kreidli................................31
- CCC Pledges a House - Rolf Beunink...........................32
SPORTS & LEISURE
- The Medgulf Cricket Cup, Qatar
Irfan Abbas Syed…........................34
MILESTONES........................................................……35
CHRISTMAS PARTY..................................................……36

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