1) Oil, Gas and Petrochemicals

Project management on the scheme to upgrade Saudi Aramco's Rabigh refinery, Saudi Arabia

Contractors: Foster Wheeler (US)

Value: $190 million

MEED 7:2:97

Package two on the Maersk Oil offshore development programme, Qatar

Contractor: National Petroleum Construction Company (Abu Dhabi)

Value: $140 million

MEED 14:2:97

Build a bezene and cyclohexane complex in the Jubail industrial area, Saudi Arabia

Contractor: Chiyoda Corporation (Japan)

Value: $650 million

MEED 14:2:97

Supply and construction of flow lines as part of the Murzuq field development, Libya

Contractor: Joannou & Paraskevaides (Overseas - Athens based)

Value: $75 million

MEED 14:3:97

Debottleneck Saudi Aramco's gas processing plant at Berri , Saudi Arabia

Contractor: JGC Corporation (Japan)

Value: $111 million

MEED 4:4:97

EPC for the Obeiyed gas field, Egypt

Contractor: Brown & Root (US)

Value: $169 million

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Ethylene plant in Alexandria, Egypt

Contractor: Toyo Engineering Corporation (Japan)

Value: $229 million

MEED 2:5:97

Construction of a new ethylene unit in Jubail, Saudi Arabia

Contractor: KTI and Technip Saudi (Netherlands-based)

Value: $149 million

MEED 20.6.97

EPC on the Western Desert gas fields for the Khalda Petroleum Company in Egypt

Contractor: Samsung Engineering Corporation (South Korea)

Value: $207 million

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Construction of a gas compression platform for the Oil & Gas Development Corporation in Pakistan

Contractors: Hyundai Engineering Company and Hyundai Corporation (both South Korea)

Value: $45 million

MEED 27:6:97

Build gathering centre (GC) 25 in the Rawdatain oil field for Kuwait Oil Company (KOC)

Contractor: Daelim Industrial Company (South Korea)

Value: $128 million)

MEED 4:7:97

Install new water injection facilities at the Rawdatain field for Kuwait Oil Company (KOC)

Contractor: Snaprogetti (Italy)

Value: $96.08 million

MEED 4:7:97

EPC for olefin complex in Saudi Arabia

Contractors: ABB Lummus Global (US) for ethylene cracker; Toyo Corporation (Japan) for the ethylene glycol plant; Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (Japan) for the polymers production facilities

Value: $2,500

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Expansion of Ruwais refinery, construction of condensate processing trains, and production facilities and export pipeline package on the Asab gas development, UAE

Contractor: Snamprogetti (Italy)

Value: $900 million

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Development of offshore Balal oil field, Iran

Contractor: Bow Valley Energy

Value: $200 million

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2) Power and Water

Build the interconnection of the west coast power distribution network's five 132/33 kV substations, UAE

Contractor: Emirates Link Group (local)

Value: $70 million

MEED 24:1:97

Construction of the new power and desalination plant at Hidd, Bahrain

Contractors: consortium of ABB Asea Brown Boveri (Zurich-based) and Fisia Italimpianti (Italy)

Value: $485 million

MEED 7:2:97

Build 600-MW Al-Zara power station, north of Homs, Syria

Contractor: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI - Japan)

Value: $395 million

MEED 21:2:97

Construct a water pipeline to link Shuaiba desalination plant with Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Contractor: Saipem and Snamprogetti (both Italy)

Value: $223.5 million

MEED 18:4:97

Supply and install transmission lines for the Syrian section of a grid link with Jordan

Contractor: KEC International (India)

Value: $46 million

MEED 18:4:97

Build 400-kV Qusais north substation in the UAE

Contractor: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (Japan)

Value: $80 million

MEED 25:4:97

Build a 215-MW oil-fired thermal power plant in Egypt

Contractor: Delma Power (US) and Electricite de France

Value: Not stated

MEED 9:5:97

Construction of a new power station at Saih Rawl, Oman

Contractor: Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation (US)

Value: $52 million

MEED 16:5:97

EPC for the first phase of the planned power station at Keti Bandar, Pakistan

Contractors: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (Japan) and Black and Veatch International (US)

Value: $1,000 million

MEED 13.6.97

Build the new 380/230-kV Al-Fadhi substation to serve the Jubail industrial area, Saudi Arabia

Contractor: ABB Asea Brown Boveri (Zurich-based)

Value: $149 million

MEED 20.6.97

Transmission lines linking Ghazlan with Al-Fadhli and Ghunan in Saudi Arabia

Contractor: KEC International (India) and Al-Sharif Trading & Contracting Establishment (local)

Value: $149 million

MEED 20.6.97

Construction of five wastewater treatment plants and two sea outfalls in the Izmit Bay, Turkey

Contractor: EMIT (Italy) and Alsim Alarko (local)

Value: $41 million

MEED 11:7:97

Construction of Rades power station in Tunisia

Contractor: Community Energy Associates (US)

Value: not stated

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3) Infrastructure/Buildings

First stage of the Bursa metro, Turkey

Contractor: Siemens (Germany)

Value: $311 million

MEED 14:2:97

Rebuild and expand the Lebanese University

Contractor: Ed Zueblin (Germany)

Value: $198 million

MEED 21:2:97

Dredging and landfill works for the Salalah port project, Oman

Contractor: Boskalis Westminster (Oman)

Value: $38.7 million

MEED 28:2:97

Construct multistorey car park at Beirut International Airport

Contractor: Mohamed Abdulmohsin Kharafi & Sons (Kuwait)

Value: $24 million

MEED 14:3:97

Build the Al-Faisaliyah complex in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Contractor: Saudi Binladin Group (local)

Value: $253 million

MEED 28:3:97

Build national museum and develop the surrounding area in the Qasr al- Murabba area of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Contractor: Saudi Oger

Value: $139 million

MEED 18:4:97

Additional work on phase two of the great manmade river project, Libya

Contractor: Dong Ah Construction Company (South Korea)

Value: $120 million

MEED 25:4:97

Onshore construction work at the new port to be built at Raysut, Oman

Contractor: Wimpey (UK) and Archirodon Construction (Overseas - Geneva registered)

Value: $93 million

MEED 30:5:97

Build the first phase of a large real estate development northeast of Cairo

Contractor: Saudi Binladin Group

Value: $82.5 million

MEED 6.6.97

Construction of a six-lane motorway from Islamabad to Peshawar, Pakistan

Contractor: Bayinder (Turkey)

Value: $500 million

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Construction of buildings and other facilities for Umm al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia

Contractor: Saudi Binladin Group (local)

Value: $51 million for nine contracts.

MEED 1:8:97

Expansion of wastewater network in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Contractor: Ali al-Qarni al-Rizqi Establishment for Contracting (local)

Value: $36 million

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Construction work on the Aden port redevelopment (first phase) in Yemen

Contractor: Hyundai Engineering & Construction Company

Value: $150

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4) Industrial Construction

Build a new cement plant in Zliten, Libya

Contractor: Ehdas Sanat Company (Iran)

Value: $150 million

MEED 10:1:97

Build two fertiliser plants in Jubail industrial city, Saudi Arabia

Contractor: Tecnimont (Italy)

Value: $300 million

MEED 10:1:97

Build a fertiliser plant at Sur, Oman

Contractors: Snamprogetti (Italy), Technip (France), Consolidated Contractors International Company (Athens based)

Value: $830 million

MEED 7:3:97

Build a sugar refinery in Nubariya, Egypt

Contractor: Technimont (Italy)

Value: $170 million

MEED 21:3:97

Build grassroots cement plant at Ras al-Khaimah, UAE

Contractor: Technip (France)

Value: $130 million

MEED 21:3:97

Build a cotton yarn spinning mill at Jebla, Syria

Contractor: China Textile Industries

Value: $182.5 million

MEED 9:5:97

Construction on the scheme to build two fertiliser plants in the Jubail industrial city, Saudi Arabia

Contractor: Consolidated Contractors International Company (Athens based)

Value: $70 million

MEED 30:5:97

Modernise and expand the Sarcheshmeh copper mining complex, Iran

Contractor: Svelda Industri (Sweden)

Value: $90 million

MEED 11:7:97