01 June 2016

Bahrain’s Prime Minister HRH Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa launched a BD280-million ($738 million) power grid development project last month. The project, aimed at reducing short circuits and ensuring efficient transfer of electricity across the kingdom, will be completed by 2017-end, said a BNA report.

The scope of work includes the building of three 400 kV electricity transmission lines in Hidd, Um Al Hassam and Riffa and linking them. The project is being implemented by Germany’s Siemens. Prysmian Group of Italy, and a company from Japan are supplying the transmission lines. The Korean company Hyundai is supplying the transformers.

• CNH puts a strong Case forward in region
• $2trn projects in pipeline in GCC
• Work starts on $738m power grid
• Koreans help build $4bn Kuwait city
• Turkish firms win $2.4bn Bosphorus Strait project
• Russia lends Egypt $25bn for plant
• Qatar leads the way in smart buildings
• Kuwait to award $1bn city deal
• Acwa group wins Oman IPP deal
• Naseej awards CanalView contract
• Bahrain’s housing project on track
• Smartsource offers diverse green portfolio to region
• Manitowoc partners with Samson on new cranes
• Update
• 830 hotels ‘under contract’

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