| Country | Project | Contractor | Client | Estimated value ($m) | Date |
| Egypt | Exploration, development and production rights for the Abu Qir concession in the Mediterranean Sea near Alexandria | Edison International | Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation | 1,400 | 3/12/2008
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| Egypt | Build a 2.2 million square metre social housing city on the Cairo-Suez Road | Emaar Misr | Abu Dhabi Municipality 100 | 100 | 18/12/2008 |
| Iraq | Design, equipment supply and training of personnel to build a drinking water plant, capacity 200 million gallons a day, in Al-Rusafa area of Baghdad | Degremont | Baghdad Water Authority | 201 | 16/12/2008 |
| Iraq | Supply gas turbines capable of supplying 7,000MW of electricity | GE | Iraq Electricity Ministry | 3,000 | 18/12/2008 |
| Iraq | Oversee the development of Umm Qasr deep sea port | Cornell Group | Iraq Transport Ministry | na | 22/12/2008 |
| Iraq | Supply of 16 gas turbines with a capacity of 3,150MW to five power plants | Siemens | Iraq Electricity Ministry | 2,100 | 22/12/2008 |
| Kuwait | General maintenance and construction of a range of external and border roads in southern Kuwait | Burhan International Construction Company | Kuwait Public Works Ministry | 11 | 15/12/2008 |
| Kuwait | Operation and maintenance of power and water plants | Kharafi International | Kuwait Electricity & Water Ministry | 41 | 22/12/2008 |
| Kuwait | Supply and installation of high tension overhead lines | Thuwainy Trading | Kuwait Electricity & Water Ministry | 250.61 | 22/12/2008 |
| Kuwait | Construction of the Sulaibya Z and Fantas Z substations | ABB | Kuwait Electricity & Water Ministry | 289.65 | 22/12/2008 |
| Kuwait | Construction of five 132/11kV transformers at the Saad al-Abdullah substation | Siemens | Kuwait Electricity & Water Ministry | na | 22/12/2008 |
| Kuwait | Phase 12 of the renovation of Kuwait’s drainage networks - Hadiya and Riqqa areas | Boodai Construction Company | Kuwait Public Works Ministry | 25.35 | 22/12/2008 |
| Kuwait | Provision of conceptual design and construction supervision for upgrade of Nawaseeb Road (Route 40) | Parsons Brinckerhoff | Kuwait Public Works Ministry | na | 22/12/2008 |
| Kuwait | Construction of a six-inch seamless carbon steel pipeline from the wellhead to a gathering point in KOC’s North Field | Combined Group Company | Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) | 32 | 23/12/2008 |
| Oman | Supply, install and commission gas turbines in Oman | Bharat Heavy Electricals (Bhel) | Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) | 400 | 4/12/2008 |
| Saudi Arabia | Construction of phase 3 of the Jeddah desalination plant | Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction consortium with Doosan Hydro Technology and Wetico
| Saline Water Conversion Corporation | 293.1 | 1/12/2008
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| Saudi Arabia | 2MW solar power plant to be built at KAUST | Conergy Asia-Pacific | King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST) | 15 | 11/12/2008 |
| Saudi Arabia | Engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of two towers at Headquarters Business Park, Jeddah | Saudi Freyssinet | Aldar al-Khasa | 200 | 16/12/2008 |
| Saudi Arabia | Detailed masterplan for first phase of Sudair Industrial City | Modon | Jurong International | na | 22/12/2008 |
| Saudi Arabia | Building temporary construction facilities at Jubail refinery over a 6 square kilometre area - infrastructure and facilities for a camp for 30,000 workers and offices for 3,000 staff | Contracting & Construction Enterprises (CCE) | Saudi Aramco/ Total | na | 30/12/2008 |
| Saudi Arabia | Dammam’s second industrial city: Build 21,000-square-metre area to produce plastic goods | Saudi German Plastics Manufacturing Company | Modon | 47 | 31/12/2008 |
| Saudi Arabia | Dammam’s second industrial city: Build 26,000-square-metre site to produce automotive spare parts | Al-Mutlaq Service & Manufacturing Company | Modon | 21.36 | 31/12/2008 |
| Saudi Arabia | Dammam’s second industrial city: Build 34,000-square-metre site to produce rotary motors | Teikyo Middle East Electricity Company Factory | Modon | 16.02 | 31/12/2008 |
| Saudi Arabia | Dammam’s second industrial city: Build 43,000 square metre area, to be used for the production of laboratory materials | Vital Chemicals Factory | Modon | 14.42 | 31/12/2008 |
| Saudi Arabia | Dammam’s second industrial city: Build 75,000 square metre area to produce pipe lining | Company Factory for Pipe Projects | Modon | 12.53 | 31/12/2008 |
| UAE | Contract involves roadworks, street lighting, stormwater drainage, sewerage, irrigation channels, and fire-fighting facilities for the Tiger Woods golf development in Dubailand | Al-Nasr Contracting Company | Tatweer | 159 | 3/12/2008
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| UAE | Build Concourse 3 at Dubai International Airport | Murray & Roberts, Takenaka and Al-Habtoor Engineering | Dubai Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) | 1,330 | 8/12/2008
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| UAE | Supply technology and equipment for anode rodding plant and hot bath removal at Taweelah aluminium smelter | ECL/ Kempe | Emal | 100 | 14/12/2008 |
| UAE | Design and build contract for the Cleveland Clinic on Abu Dhabi’s Sowwah Island - 300-bed hospital and 324-room clinic | Arabtec Construction/ Aktor | Mubadala Development Company | 1,900 | 16/12/2008 |
| UAE | Build 30-storey residential building and health club at Wadi Tower at City of Arabia, Dubailand | Simplex Infrastructures | Ilyas & Mustafa Galadari Group | 47 | 18/12/2008 |
| UAE | Supply engines to power eight of Etihad’s Airbus A330 aircraft | Rolls-Royce | Etihad | 575 | 23/12/2008 |
| UAE | EPC contract for a 600,000 gallon-a-day (g/d) reverse osmosis desalination plant and a 80,000 g/d demineralisation plant on Abu Dhabi’s Das Island | Metito | Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company (Adma Opco) | 21 | 29/12/2008 |
| UAE | Build Village Centre development on Palm Jumeirah - four-storey retail centre with two, 42-storey residential towers. It will have 120,000 square metres of retail space and 150,000 sq m of residential space | Samsung Corporation | Nakheel | 1,100 | 31/12/2008 |
| | | | TOTAL | 13,702 | |
