Reef Worlds, a Los Angeles-based company, intends to create an underwater theme park for waterfront resorts in Qatar. The theme park would consist of artificial reef sites that would be designed like ancient Lost Cities, reports Zawya. The aim of the project is to boost tourism and bring economic be
DP World Chairman HE Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem met with the Maldivian President His Excellency Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom and Minister of Economic Development His Excellency Mohamed Saeed, in Malé and during the meeting discussed potential areas of cooperation and ways in which economic relations c
Since its formation in 2012, Tentec Training has been going from strength to strength providing training and competence assurance programmes in the assembly and tightening of bolted connections. Not only does the company provides hands-on practical and theory training in the UK leading to an Enginee
BAM International, the operating company of Royal BAM Group active outside of Europe, and its local partner MAG have successfully completed the construction of the new port in Aqaba, Jordan, for Aqaba Development Corporation (ADC), a second port in line with the country’s economic master plan. Toget
The Caspian Technical Training Centre (CTTC) in Sangachal celebrated the 10th anniversary of its successful operation. The centre was opened in May 2004 by BP and its partners in Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli (ACG), Shah Deniz, Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) and South Caucasus Pipeline (SCP) projects. CTTC is a
Oilfield service company ROMAR International has appointed STEP Oiltools as its agent in the Caspian region, in a two year agreement. STEP Oiltools already promotes ROMAR’s range of magnetic separation products in Norway, South East Asia and the Middle East in a highly successful arrangement between
Drydocks World and Dubai Maritime City (DMC), the leading provider of services to the shipping, maritime, oil, gas & energy sector is supporting the “Green Economy for Sustainable Development” initiative launched by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President of UAE and Ruler of Dubai. As
DNV GL is launching a new Recommended Practice (RP) on LNG Bunkering in the Middle East & South Asia. The launch in Doha is in conjunction with Qatar’s announcement that it is going to establish a strategy of supplying LNG as a marine fuel in Qatar and the other countries forming the Gulf Cooperatio
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “Global LNG Regasification Industry Outlook Report (Q2 2014) – Analysis of Trade, Infrastructure, Competition, Investments and New Opportunities to 2020” report to their offering. Global LNG Industry is poised to grow steadily despite fluctuatio
Qatar Petroleum (QP) has announced plans to invest over 40 billion Qatari Riyals in the re-development of the existing Bul Hanine offshore oil field located about 120 kilometers to the east of the Qatari coastline. The project, which is currently at the pre-FEED stage, is one of the largest to be ma
Najjar & Najjar Architects, a design company based in Beirut and Vienna, has developed IRIS pods ‒ eye-like kinematic structures that would be installed along the coast of Beirut, at the very line where the land ends and the Mediterranean Sea begins. The IRIS pods would generate wave energy via buoy
Apache Corporation said that two recent hydrocarbon discoveries illustrate the continuing reserve upside to be found across the company’s 6.8 million gross acres in Egypt’s Western Desert. The Herunefer-1X discovery, located in the Matruh Basin in the eastern portion of Khalda Offset Concession, enc
Energypedia has partnered up with the Abu Dhabi based IRENA Renewable Energy Learning Partnership (IRELP). IRELP, a project of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), is the central hub for renewable energy education. The project was formed to increase awareness of, and broaden access to,
The Shah Deniz consortium announces a major offshore transport and installation contract award for the Stage 2 development of the Shah Deniz field to the BOS Shelf LLC, Saipem Contracting Netherlands B.V. and Star Gulf FZCO consortium. The award of this $1.8 billion contract, part of the Shah Deniz
