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Bahrain News
Bahrain plans to double refining capacity
Sitra refinery wants to take capacity to 600,000 barrels a day of refined products
Bahrain receives two bids for social housing project
Third bidder drops out of running
French company wins Bahrain waste-to-energy project
Cnim seeks debt finance for project
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Gulf Finance House to raise $300m in new equity
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Fichtner bids low for Bahrain renewables advisory contract
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Joint venture to build $200m fibreglass plant in Bahrain
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Bahrain's Investcorp to delist from London stock exchange
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Bahrain contractor to build $200m steel plant
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Gulf Air not threatened by Iran's demand
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Economic slowdown hitting Bahraini banking sector
Bahrain Analysis
GCC food price concerns loom
Control over the cost of comestibles once again rises to the top of the agenda in the Gulf. The key to stabilising the region’s agribusiness could be in foreign land investment
Gulf Water contractors
Six key people overseeing the development of water and wastewater projects in the GCC: Franck Le Baron, N Suresh Kumar, Kyeong Choi, Fady Juez, Gerard Velter and Thierry Pepe
The Gulf: Counting on government spending
Contractors hope that public sector can continue to prop up the region’s projects market
GCC steps up highways investment
Road spending booms as Gulf governments capitalise on lower construction costs
Bahrain Special Reports
Special Report: Power & Water
The top GCC power and water developers are preparing for a surge in business over the next two years
Special Report: Healthcare
Rapid population growth and an increase in chronic diseases in the GCC, together with the roll-out of compulsory insurance, has caused demand for healthcare services to soar in recent years. Governments have responded with an unprecedented wave of hospital and clinic building
Special Report: Construction – As materials costs continue to fall steel still commands a high price
Clients launching projects in the GCC, acutely aware of how desperate contractors are for work, have been quick to exploit the economic slump, pressing for lower costs and shorter delivery times
Special Report: GCC – Euro crisis has lessons for planned GCC currency union
The crisis that has played out across the eurozone in recent months offers a timely lesson for the GCC member states and their proposed single currency
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Special Report: Oil & Gas - South Korean firms dominate MEED's GCC contractors survey
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Special Report: GCC banks
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Special Report: Power and water - Banks turn to utility schemes
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Special Report: Bahrain - Manama widens economic plan
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Special Report: Power & Water - Region struggles to ensure access to scarce water supplies
Bahrain Data
Completions add to summer slowdown
With few new projects being launched, the seasonal lull across the region continues
Gulf Projects: 19 August 2010: Bahrain records biggest growth
Little activity in most markets
Gulf Projects 12 August 2010: Riyadh and Baghdad sustain market
At its peak, at the start of 2009, the value of projects planned or under way in the Gulf topped $3 trillion, according to projects tracker MEED Projects. The GCC accounted for about $2.6bn.
Financial crisis highlights need for Middle East and North Africa to diversify
The economies of the Middle East and North Africa region were better placed than many in the world to weather the global economic downturn but their need to stimulate sustainable growth is no less pressing
Middle East and North Africa states are coping with financial crisis
Masood Ahmed, director of the International Monetary Fund Middle East and Central Asia department, assesses the prospects for the Middle East and North Africa as the region recovers from the downturn
Manama continues to trail blaze in infrastructure, banking and finance
The island kingdom’s lack of oil and gas resources has made it resourceful in other areas and it has made pioneering advances in developing its infrastructure, banking and finance, and a diversified economy
Bahrain Tenders
Bahrain: Gulf Air HQ modifications
Modification work at the new Gulf Air headquarters
Bahrain: Medical equipment
Supply of medical equipment
Bahrain: Vehicle lease
Short term vehicle hire for Bahrain Petroleum Company
Bahrain: Construction of four new houses
The construction of four new houses in Awali for Bahrain Petroleum Company (Bapco)
Bahrain: Provision of windows and doors
Provision of aluminium windows and doors for Bapco housing
Bahrain: Management of youth business centre
Management of youth business plan competition and web-based resource centre
