Project | Contractor | Client | Estimated value ($m) | Date |
Bahrain |
Build a lube base oil refinery at Sitra | Samsung Engineering (South Korea) | Joint venture of Bahrain Petroleum Company (Bapco) and Neste Oil (Finland) | 314 | 19/8/2008 |
Build, own and operate the $2bn Addur independent water and power project (IWPP) in Bahrain | Suez Energy International (Belgium) and Gulf Investment Corporation | Finance Ministry | na | 28/8/2008 |
Provide designs for all civil, structural, mechanical and electrical engineering for a BD70m ($190m) mixed-use tower in the Al-Seef district of Bahrain | Mott MacDonald (UK) | Ithmaar Development Company | na | 28/8/2008 |
Egypt |
Design, engineering and procurement contract to build a fifth gas processing train at Khalda Petroleum Company's natural gas plant at Salam in the Western desert | Petrofac (UK) | Khalda Petroleum Company | na | 4/8/2008 |
Jordan |
Selected to act as legal adviser to the lenders on Jordan’s Al-Qatrana independent power project (IPP) | Chadbourne & Parke | Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (MEMR) | na | 7/8/2008 |
Kuwait |
Modify and improve the power distribution system at the gathering centre, which has an oil processing capacity of 120,000 barrels a day | O&G General Engineering & Contracting | Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) | 20.4 | 28/8/2008 |
Qatar |
Build a pumping station which will feed the Doha North wastewater treatment plant. The contract also covers the construction of pipelines which will deliver treated sewage effluent to the capital for irrigation | Marubeni Corporation (Japan) | Public Works Authority (Ashghal) | 363 | 11/8/2008 |
Provide front-end engineering and design (FEED) services for the offshore component of Qatar Petroleum’s giant Barzan gas field development | J Ray McDermott | Qatar Petroleum and ExxonMobil Corporation (US) | na | 14/8/2008 |
Build the School of Foreign Services, at Education City in Qatar | Midmac Contracting (local) | Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development | 165 | 21/8/2008 |
3D-seismic survey of QP's ageing Dukhan oil and gas field. | CGS Veritas (French) | Qatar Petroleum (QP) | 140 | 21/8/2008 |
Develop the conceptual design for a national railway system in Qatar | Deutsche Bahn (Germany) | Qatari Diar Real Estate Investment Company | na | 28/8/2008 |
Build residential buildings at the Viva Bahriyah district on the Pearl-Qatar | Arabian Construction Company (Lebanon) | United Development Company (UDC) | 155 | 31/8/2008 |
Saudi Arabia |
Provide its Spheripol licence technology to the new polypropylene plant planned by the Yanbu-based Arabian Industrial Fibres Company (Ibn Rushd) | LyondellBasell (Rotterdam) | Ibn Rushd a subsidiary of Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (Sabic) | na | 6/8/2008 |
Onshore gas processing package on the 900,000-b/d Manifa increment | GS Engineering & Construction | Saudi Aramco | 500 | 14/8/2008 |
UAE |
Engineering, procurement and construction contract for the Hamriya power plant | GE (US) and SNC Lavalin (Canada) | Sharjah Electricity & Water Authority (Sewa) | na | 1/8/2008 |
Design and construct 1,437 villas in Dubailand | Arabtec Construction | Emaar-Bawadi joint venture | 436 | 4/8/2008 |
Construction of apartment buildings and villas for the SkyGardens project on Reem island in Abu Dhabi | Taahud General Contracting Company (local) | Plus Properties (local)
| 409 | 5/8/2008 |
Under the 16-year contract, Alstom will provide spare parts and maintenance services for the plant’s five Alstom gas turbines | Alstom (France) | Fujairah Asia Power Company (Fapco) | na | 6/8/2008 |
Design, fabricate, construct and commission a sewerage treatment plant for a labour camp in the Mafraq area of Abu Dhabi | Concorde-Corodex Group | Abu Dhabi Sewerage Services Company (ADSSC) | na | 7/8/2008 |
Construction of 18 office buildings of between four and 13 floors, on top of a common single-floor podium at the Meydan development at Nad al-Sheba in Dubai. The total built-up area is about 350,000 square metres | Mammut Building Systems | Meydan LLC | 408 | 10/8/2008 |
Design bridges on its Palm Deira development in Dubai. The contract involves preparing the architectural concept for all the 44 long-span bridges that will connect the 26 islands that make up Palm Deira. | Hyder Consulting (UK) and LWK Architects | Nakheel | na | 13/8/2008 |
Construction of two 280-metre tall, 45-floor towers for the G-Emporium project at City of Arabia in Dubailand | Simplex Infrastructures (India) | GIO Developments | na | 14/8/2008 |
Mechanical, electrical and plumbing contract for the Trump International Hotel and tower project in Dubai | BK Gulf (local/UK) | Joint venture of Nakheel and the US' Trump Organisation | 114 | 14/8/2008 |
Build the Pacific development on Al-Marjan island, Ras al-Khaimah | Construction Technology Contracting (CTC) | Joint venture of Select Group (local) and Select Property (UK) | 272 | 21/8/2008 |
Build a residential tower at Dubai Marina | Dubai Contracting Company (DCC) | na | 72 | 25/8/2008 |
Build zones three and six at the Dubai Lagoon project at Dubai Investments Park | Belhasa Engineering & Contracting | Schon Properties | 463 | 26/8/2008 |
Design and build an aquatic sports centre in Dubai | Saudi Binladin Group | Dubai Municipality | 300 | 26/8/2008 |
Provide its proprietary technology for the world’s largest residue fluid catalytic cracking unit at the grassroots expansion of the Ruwais refinery | Shaw Group (US) | Abu Dhabi Oil Refining Company (Takreer) | na | 31/8/2008 |
Total | 3,497 | |