The Clough Group is an Australian Engineering and Construction company based in

Perth Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth is ...

, Western Australia. It has projects in engineering, construction, operations and maintenance services, principally in the oil and gas industry. Formerly listed on the

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, it is a subsidiary of Murray & Roberts.

History

Clough was established in

in 1919, as builders Clough and Son.Historical timeline
at Clough official website. Retrieved 16 March 2011. Clough underwent significant growth and diversification from the 1950s through 1970s. In 1964, BAM Clough was established as a 50:50 joint venture with Royal BAM Group to deliver major jetty and near shore marine projects in Australia and Papua New Guinea. Expansion was fuelled by civil engineering and infrastructure contracts from Western Australia's

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iron ore boom. Clough undertook its first oil-and-gas project on

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in 1965. During the 1970s and 1980s, Clough pursued activities in the Middle East, Indonesia and Africa. Branch offices were established in

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and

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.Company locations
at Clough official website. Retrieved 16 March 2011. Acquisition of the Petrosea Group of Companies in 1984 (divested in 2009) was a basis for expansion in the South East Asian region. The company was listed on the

(ASX) in 1998, with the Clough family ceasing to be shareholders in 2007.Harold Clough steps down
Press release at Clough official website, 29 October 2007. Retrieved 16 March 2011. Around 1991, Clough Engineering took over

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, and traded as Noyes-Clough until 2002, when that branch of the company was purchased by Project Solutions Australia. In the 1990s, Clough AMEC was established as a 50:50 joint venture with

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to deliver brownfield asset support to the Australasian oil and gas sector. In October 2008, Clough sponsored construction of a First Year Centre for engineering students at the

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,Clough to fund first year centre at UWA
Press release at Clough official website. 29 October 2008. Retrieved 16 March 2011. which opened in 2010, supporting students "with a space to have as their base, to meet, work in groups, and also work on projects rom industry. It was recorded that former chairman and managing director Harold Clough had been a long-term benefactor of the university. Having been a shareholder since 2004, in November 2013 Murray & Roberts took full ownership with the company delisted from the ASX. In February 2019, Clough acquired Saulsbury's Gulf Coast downstream and chemical business unit in

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. In 2022 Clough suffered financial distress and was at risk of financial collapse. After a proposed takeover by

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collapsed, Murray & Roberts placed it in

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Notable projects

Narrows Bridge (Perth) The Narrows Bridge is a freeway and railway crossing of the Swan River (Western Australia), Swan River in Perth, Western Australia. Made up of two road bridges and a railway bridge constructed at a part of the river known as ''the Narrows'', ...

(1957) * Barrow Island Oilfield Development (1965) * Stirling Bridge (1974) *

Mount Henry Bridge The Mount Henry Bridge carries the Kwinana Freeway and Mandurah railway line over the Canning River in Perth, approximately south of the Perth central business district. At long, it is the longest road bridge in Western Australia. It spans th ...

(1982) *

Graham Farmer Freeway Graham Farmer Freeway is a inner-city freeway in Perth, Western Australia. It links Rivervale and Burswood with West Perth and Leederville, providing an east-west bypass of Perth's central business district. The freeway, in conjunction wi ...

(2000) in a joint venture with

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(2004) in a joint venture with Seymour Whyte * Snowy 2.0,

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civil and electro-mechanical works in a joint venture with

References

{{Reflist Companies formerly listed on the Australian Securities Exchange Construction and civil engineering companies of Australia Construction and civil engineering companies established in 1919 Companies based in Perth, Western Australia Australian companies established in 1919