If you're willing to move on short notice and have technical skills in engineering, procurement or logistics, consider relief work, Siegel suggests.

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Most important, he says, Doosan is providing engineering, procurement and construction services, or EPC, for the Rabigh plants, as well as the key components.

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China Guangdong Nuclear will be the majority owner and operator of the first phase, and will take the lead role on engineering, procurement and construction (EPC).

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Under the deal, Wood Group PSN (WGPSN) will continue to provide engineering, procurement, construction and services to Total's Alwyn, Dunbar, Elgin and Franklin offshore platforms and the St Fergus onshore gas plant.

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So it is not surprising that the stock of Fluor Corp. ( FLR, 47) , which provides engineering, procurement, construction, maintenance and project-management services for refineries and power plants, is down 48% in the last 12 months.

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At Dvoinoye in Russia, development of an exploration decline and construction of surface facilities is on schedule, as are procurement and engineering, Kinross said.

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Engineering work and project procurement is also continuing on schedule.

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My question is, one of the things that I have experienced over the last four years as a small business trying to do business in the federal procurement business, essentially, as a small engineering company, is the challenge of the bundling of contracts, which has made it increasingly difficult for service-disabled businesses -- all small businesses across the nation -- to compete basically within the federal procurement system.

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