Tesoro Corp., a Hispanic-owned general contractor in Virginia Beach, has won two Navy task orders worth a total $44.4 million for local Navy construction projects. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Mid-Atlantic, in Norfolk made both awards.

One is a $23.1 million contract to design and construct an administrative facility at Norfolk Naval Station's Naval Warfare Development Command. Five companies bid on the job.

The other is a $21.3 million award that includes construction of new piers and an operations building for the Navy's deperming station at Lamberts Point on the Elizabeth River. The facility, built in the 1940s, consists of two 1,140-foot-long parallel piers. The hulls of new and refitted Navy and Coast Guard ships receive an electric charge at the piers that reduces their magnetic signature and their vulnerability to mines. Two bids were submitted for the work.