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Key milestone for Bapco modernisation project

The Bahrain Petroleum Company (Bapco) has announced that it has reached financial close on its multi-billion-dollar Bapco Modernisation Programme (BMP). The financial package is a key milestone in the BMP’s progress and its successful closure means Bapco can proceed to the next stage of the project, said senior officials at a ceremony held last month ...

Volvo CE launches Europe, MEA uptime centre

Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE), a major international company that develops and ...

Sezad gives go-ahead to upgrade infrastructure

Oman’s Special Economic Zone Authority at Duqm (Sezad) has signed six agreements to ...

Reynaers’ excellence on show at Tylos outlet

Tylos Aluminium, a key authorised fabricator of Reynaers systems in Bahrain, has opened ...

Hill secures Hamad airport expansion deal

Hill International, a global leader in managing construction risk, said it has been ...





Contracts worth $13.3bn awarded in first quarter

Saudi Arabia’s construction industry witnessed a strong uptick during the first quarter on the back of SR48.9 billion ($13.3 billion) worth of awarded contracts mainly in the energy and utility sectors, according to a report by the US-Saudi Arabian Business Council (USSABC). Improved oil prices coupled with a focus by the government to spend heavily ...

Kingdom’s HVAC-R market to hit $7bn

The heating, ventilation, air-conditioning and refrigeration (HVAC-R) sector in Saudi ...

Marubeni team starts work on desal project

Marubeni Corporation, a leading developer and operator of international power projects, ...

Al Salem Johnson Controls shifts factory to KAEC

Al Salem Johnson Controls (York), a leading provider of integrated heating, ventilation ...

Veolia to deploy solutions for water projects

Veolia, a global leader in optimised resource management, said it is working closely with ...





Abengoa group wins $700m desal plant deal

Leading Spanish group Abengoa said its consortium with Chinese EPC contractor Sepco III has received an order to start early works for the construction of the world’s largest reverse osmosis (RO) desalination plant at Taweelah, 45 km north of Abu Dhabi. The go-ahead for the engineering, supply and construction services contract was given by ...

Chinese major eyes $10bn Kizad projects

Chinese manufacturing major East Hope Group said it is working with Khalifa Industrial ...

Expo 2020 thematic districts completed

Expo 2020 Dubai team has announced that the construction of its petal-shaped Thematic ...

Tenders launched for Oman pavilion work

Oman’s Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MoCI) is set to launch an international ...

Aurecon to work on Sharjah library

Leading engineering and infrastructure advisory Aurecon said it has been awarded a ...





Design body uses Index as Mideast showcase

Organisation in Design chose Index exhibition last year as a stepping stone to the Middle East after evaluating a number of options, and the European studio is looking to repeat its success at this year’s event as well when it opens in Dubai in September (17 to 19). It was early 2018 when Organisation in Design – which helps designers ...

Key glass industry expo to kick off in September

Gulf Glass, a leading glass industry event in the Middle East, will be back in Dubai, UAE, ...

Green innovations on show at Saudi Elenex

A range of cutting-edge technologies and innovations in the renewable and non-renewable ...

Diary of events

JUNE 10-12:    Hardware + Tools Middle East, a trade fair for hardware, tools ...





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