Environmentalists hoping that oil production will peak in 2014 will be disappointed. New supplies will comfortably outstrip fresh demand, preventing prices from rising. Countries leading the way will include Brazil, Iraq, America and ...
Tags: oil production, Energy
FLSmidth has won a contract worth $94.9m with Qatari cement producer Al Khalij Cement to supply a complete cement production line for a plant in Umm Bab, approximately 100km east of Doha. The production line will be a duplicate of the ...
Tags: FLSmidth, Qatar, cement production, Al Khalij Cement
Reportedly, Emirates Steel announced to raise its rebar prices by around AED36/ton for January. At present, the company’s rebar ex-work prices are at AED2, 241/ton, higher than the price of AED2,205/ton in December. Meanwhile, ...
Tags: rebar, metallurgy
Reportedly, Emirates Steel announced to raise its rebar prices by around AED36/ton for January. At present, the company’s rebar ex-work prices are at AED2, 241/ton, higher than the price of AED2,205/ton in December. Meanwhile, ...
Tags: rebar, metallurgy
Further to the signing of a framework agreement in early May, Total is pleased to announce that QPI is now a shareholder of Total E&P Congo, holding 15% of its capital. "The conclusion of this agreement, which is an important milestone, ...
Tags: Total, QPI, Total E&P Congo, Qatar, Congolese petroleum industry
Scientists say they have the first definitive proof that a deadly respiratory virus in the Middle East infects camels in addition to humans. The finding may help researchers find ways to control the spread of the virus. Using gene ...
Tags: respiratory virus, camels, Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus
Qatar Petroleum(QP)and Qatar Petrochemical Company(QAPCO)have revealed the logo of the Al Sejeel Petrochemical Complex,bearing the colors of the Qatari flag,and also announced the award of the project's Front-End Engineering and ...
All of those cell phones, computers, tablets, toys, and toaster ovens really add up. Not only are consumers gathering more and more electrical and electronic equipment, but we are also tossing much of it in the trash. The piles of ...
Glass LLC, the first glass holding company in the Middle East and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dubai Investments PJSC [DI], has announced that its coating lines, comprising subsidiaries Emirates Glass LLC [EGL] and Saudi American Glass ...
Tags: Glass, Construction, Decoration
After a sharp downturn following the 2008 financial crisis, growth in coatings demand in the Gulf region of the Middle East is now surging forward again. This recovery was symbolized in late November by the announcement that Dubai, which ...
Tags: Middle East, construction, coatings market
Chiyoda Corporation (“Chiyoda”) (TSE: 6366; ISIN: JP3528600004), one of Japan’s leading engineering and construction firms, announces that its subsidiary in Qatar, Chiyoda Almana Engineering LLC (“Chiyoda ...
IDC has released its predictions for the IT industry in 2014, and said it believes that Middle East spending will exceed $32 billion in the coming year. It predicts that the region will make a 7.3 percent year-on-year growth, one of the ...
Tags: It Predictions, Computer
Qatar Petroleum (QP) and two Japanese companies, namely Zeon Corporation and Mitsui & Co. Ltd., today signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for the development of an integrated butadiene extraction and elastomer complex in Ras Laffan ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Iran produced 50.25 million tons of cement in the first eight months of the current Iranian year (started March 21). The figure indicates a growth of 2.2 percent compared with the corresponding figure of last year, which was 49.16 ...
Tags: Cement Output, Iran, Construction News
Qatar National Cement Company has signed a Letter of Intent with FL Smidth to build a new cement plant in Qatar. Following reports in the Qatari media, the Danish equipment supplier said in a statement, if and when the contract is ...