UAE Review

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Major energy push

Oil production in the UAE will reach four million barrels per day by 2015, and natural gas production will increase to 6.5 billion cubic feet per day by 2008, according...

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Dalma invests $80m on rigs

Capitalising on the rapidly increasing demand for drilling services in the Mena (Middle East North Africa) region, Dalma Energy, an Aabar subsidiary which currently...

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$84.5m contract

UAE-based fabricator Lamprell has landed $84.5 million in new contracts for jack-up upgrades and floating production, storage and offloading modules from three three...

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Adnoc mulls refinery

Adnoc is planning to build a refinery in Abu Dhabi with capacity of at least 300,000 barrels per day, the company’s chief executive said...

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$500m investment

Abu Dhabi National Tanker Co (Adnatco) said it plans to invest up to $500 million to double its fleet of crude and products tankers to 22 by 2010...

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Dolphin date set

The multi-billion dollar Dolphin Energy Limited project scheduled to start gas supplies to the nation’s industry has now entered into the commissioning/pre-commissioning...

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Office opened in Al Khobar

Dana Gas, the Middle East’s first regional private-sector natural gas company, has officially inaugurated its new office in the Saudi Arabian city of Al Khobar. ...

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Vectra offers soluton

Vectra is a leading supplier of safety management, risk, engineering and other specialist consultancy and support services to both the public and private sector worldwide...

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An eye to the future

UAE firm Dana Gas said it has agreed to acquire Canada’s Centurion Energy International for C$1.15 billion ($1.02 billion) to expand into the upstream gas sector...

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Linde awarded deal

Borouge, the leading provider of innovative plastic solutions, has awarded the contract to build its new ethylene cracker to Linde Engineering...

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Office set in Bahrain

Furmanite International, the technical services company geared to maximising asset uptime, is announcing the opening in January of an office in Bahrain, to be followed by...

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Construction starts

Dubai Maritime City, the world’s largest and the most comprehensive maritime complex in the world, has announced that it has begun construction of industrial workshops...

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$3.5m facility opened

High Arctic Energy Services, an international leader in specialised underbalanced oilfield drilling (UBD) and production services, has opened a $3.5 million facility in...

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High quality solutions

With nearly three decades of engineering, fabrication and project management experience, alliances with the world’s leading process equipment technology developers and...

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Taqa to spend $1bn

Abu Dhabi National Energy Co (Taqa) said it would invest up to $1 billion in a joint venture to build power plants in India, where electricity demand outstrips supply by...

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Setting standards

GeoLab is a dedicated and innovative marine contractor providing survey and positioning and construction support services to the international marine market...

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Fosroc to triple sales

Fosroc, a premier supplier of materials and coating solutions to the construction industry, announced its aims to triple sales into the construction and oil and gas...

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Pakistan LNG terminal eyed

A consortium including Dana Gas has signed an agreement to develop a LNG terminal in Pakistan at an estimated cost of $200 million, the UAE company said...

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Ropes more flexible

DSM Dyneema is spearheading the latest innovations in mooring and tugging lines with the use of ultra strong Dyneema fibre...