Closer to home, the group's newly acquired business KT Pipeline Services was awarded a contract to construct intake and outfall pipelines and associated work for the desalination plant at CITIC Pacific Mining's Sino iron ore project at Cape Preston in the Pilbara.

The contract is expected to be completed early next year.

Monadelphous will also undertake structural and mechanical work for BHP Billiton Iron Ore on the Rapid Growth Project 5 at the iron ore port facilities at Finucane Island, Port Hedland, which is due for completion by December.

In the South West, it has been awarded a contract with the WA Water Corporation to supply, construct and commission a water treatment plant at Picton, near Bunbury.

In the oil and gas space, it was awarded a three-year contract extension with Oil Search for field construction services at its support facilities in the Southern Highlands province, PNG.

The extension follows a previous three-year contract.

The agreement includes additional work to upgrade Oil Search's Kutubu and Gobe facilities in preparation for the delivery of gas to the PNG LNG project.

This work is expected to be completed early next year.

The contracts were spread across the group's three operating divisions of infrastructure, engineering construction and maintenance and industrial services.