Marubeni to build $1.7bn power plant
Mesaieed: Japanese construction firm Marubeni has won a QR6.5 billion ($1.78 billion) power plant, considered to be the largest such facility in the Middle East.

The 2,000 MW power plant, coming up in Mesaieed Industrial City (MIC), is being developed by Qatar Petroleum, Qatar Electricity and Water Corporation (Kahrama) and Marubani Corp and will be completely operational in 2010.
This is the second major project being undertaken by Marubeni in the country in association with Kahrama. While Marubeni and Kahrama have 40 per cent stakes each, Qatar Petroleum will have a 20 per cent shares in the new plant.
Until now the biggest integrated power plant to be undertaken in Qatar was the 1,025 MW plant being developed by Q-Power in Ras Laffan Industrial City (RLIC). The commissioning of the latest power plant in Mesaieed is expected to give a considerable boost to the industrial sector in the country.
Three major consultants had made their bid for the construction of the power plant.
While the first phase of the new plant would be completed in the second quarter of 2008, the second would be ready by September 2009.

Keppel in $1bn Qatar deal
Doha: Keppel Integrated Engineering Limited (KIE), a subsidiary of Singapore-listed Keppel Corporation, has signed a record QR3.9 billion ($1.1 billion) deal with Qatar’s Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Agriculture for the construction of a waste management facility in the country.
The agreement marks the largest offshore environmental engineering deal ever won by a Singaporean company and the first facility of its kind to be built in the Middle East.
Qatar’s Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Agriculture said under the two contracts Keppel would design and build the facility and operate it for 20 years.
The facility is expected to become operational in 2009 and will have an initial capacity of handling more than 1,550 tonnes of waste a day.

Amico lands The Gate first phase
Doha: Salam Bunyan Company has signed up the contracting firm Amico to undertake the first phase of The Gate project coming up in Qatar.
The commercial and entertainment complex, to be built on a 21,000 sq m area, will come up in the heart of Doha’s new business hub in the West Bay.
The QR60 million first phase of the QR560 million, project will involve the construction of infrastructure facilities and is slated for completion by May next year.
The project will feature a 28,000 sq m wide underground car-park, shopping centres, a gymnasium and health centre, restaurants, offices space and a floor dedicated to social services and business activities.