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Kuwait awards $4.3bn contract for terminal
Kuwait’s government said it had awarded a contract to build a new terminal at the country’s international airport...
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Bahrain airport deal by year-end
A contract for the $815-million expansion of Bahrain International Airport is expected to be awarded by December for completion by the first quarter of 2019, it has...
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$10bn infrastructure projects get go-ahead
Kuwait has approved the construction of a series of power plants, desalination facilities and other infrastructure projects...
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Oman mulls sites for new airport
Oman has named four potential sites for the establishment of a new domestic airport in Musandam Governorate in the north of the sultanate, a report said...
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Qatar growth ‘to continue regardless of World Cup’
Qatar’s construction sector growth will continue regardless of the status of the World Cup as much of the infrastructure...
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GCC rail ‘to be ready by 2018'
The GCC rail network project is set to be completed and operating by 2018, at a cost of more than $15.4 billion, according to a report...
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Lusail Port expansion boosts capacity
Expansion work at Lusail Port in Qatar is complete, increasing the capacity of the port to three million tonnes per year, a big...
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Go-ahead for key Bahrain roads
Bahrain’s Prime Minister His Royal Highness Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa has ordered the construction of a fourth causeway linking capital Manama and...
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Exponential rise in district cooling
The Middle East region recorded the addition of a further 75.5 million sq ft to district cooling systems in 2014, according to...
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Work restarts on Villamar
Construction has restarted on the half-built Villamar mixed-use project in the Bahrain Financial Harbour in Manama, following the signing of restructuring agreements by...
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Work to start on Al Bayt stadium in Al Khor
The main contractor for the Al Bayt stadium in Al Khor in northern Qatar for the semi-finals of the 2022 Fifa World Cup will...
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Qatar to decide on World Cup stadia
Qatar hopes to decide how many stadiums it will use in hosting the 2022 World Cup by the end of this year, a spokesman for the...
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Seven groups vie for two Oman desal deals
A total of seven global technology groups have submitted their bids to develop two major independent water projects (IWPs...
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453 new hotels in pipeline
The Middle East is witnessing a massive development in the hospitality sector with a total of 453 hotel projects planned in the next five years...
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Saipem wins $1.6bn refinery deal
Kuwait has awarded a new KD475.32-million ($1.57 billion) contract for work on its planned Al Zour oil refinery to a consortium led by Italy’s Saipem, state news...
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Bids invited for Salalah Port expansion
Global engineering consulting firms are preparing bids to design the planned Phase Three expansion of Oman’s Salalah Port...
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Oman STP tender draws global bids
Oman’s proposed new sewage treatment plant (STP) project, estimated to cost about $100 million, has attracted tenders from three global firms, a report said, adding...
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Samsung in $2.46bn power plant deal
Samsung C&T Corp, South Korea’s Number One builder, has won a 2.87-trillion won ($2.46 billion) contract to build a...
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DSI secures $59m Kuwait project
Drake & Scull International (DSI) said its engineering subsidiary Drake & Scull Engineering Kuwait has secured an MEP (mechanical, engineering and plumbing...
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Liwa complex deals soon
Bidding is now under way for four engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) packages of Oman Refineries and Petroleum Industries Company’s (Orpic) Liwa...