Mineral processing firm Sedgman has won $100 million in contracts to operate coal handling and preparation plants in NSW and Queensland.
Sedgman parent company CIMIC Group said on November 6 a pair of contracts had been won – one with Mach Energy, and another with QCoal.
The Mach Energy contract, worth $75 million over three years, is to operate and maintain facilities at Mach’s Mount Pleasant site at Muswellbrook.
For the $25 million, one-year QCoal contract, Sedgman will deliver maintenance and operations at QCoal’s Byerwen site at Glenden.
CIMIC said the contracts maintained Sedgman’s strong track record of reliably operating CHPPs.
“Sedgman’s strong working relationship with QCoal has developed over many years,” Sedman managing director Grant Fraser said.
“We have been closely involved throughout the Byerwen project from the engineering, procurement and construction of the stockpile, train load-out and CHPP. We are pleased to be completing the cycle by operating the plant.”
Fraser said at Mount Pleasant Sedgman would be drawing the long partnership between Mach Energy and fellow CIMIC Group member Thiess, “to deliver a seamless service that will maximise the value from that site”.
The Mount Pleasant contract will begin towards the end of 2018. The Byerwen CHPP is currently being commissioned.