Search

Germany's Siemens has signed a new in-principle agreement to finance and build a 1,000-MW power plant on Qeshm island. The agreement brings a final contract a step closer, but has [...]

GERMAN power companies have had an excellent year so far in the Middle East, in contrast to the performance of many other industrial exporters. The Mannheim-based ABB Kraftwerke has won [...]

The process of transferring several power stations from Qatar Electricity & Water Corporation (Kahramaa) to the joint stock Qatar Electricity & Water Company (QEWC) is set to gather pace in [...]

Two more contracts have been let on two independent power plants (IPPs) being built by Electricite de France (EdF) in Suez and East Port Said. France's Alstom has won a [...]

MEED Tenders is the most comprehensive weekly listing of business opportunities in Middle East countries. To promote your business opportunity to more than 50,000 business people who read MEED every [...]

An international consortium headed by Germany's Siemens was expected to receive a letter of intent for the turnkey contract to build Jebel Ali G power station on 4 May, following [...]

Taweelah B to be retendered The turnkey contract for Taweelah B, the largest power and water project in Abu Dhabi, is to be retendered in an attempt to cut costs, [...]

Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) has awarded contracts totalling more than SR23bn ($6.1bn) as it seeks to raise its power generation capacity and strengthen its transmission and distribution networks in the [...]

Japan's Sumitomo Corporation is contacting Saudi banks as it seeks to strengthen its bid for the $5.5bn Ras al-Zour independent water and power project (IWPP), which it submitted without the [...]

Dubai Electricity & Water Authority (Dewa) says it will go ahead with plans to build a $3bn hydrogen power plant in partnership with China, after two Dubai-based firms that had [...]

Oman Power & Water Procurement Company (OPWP) is to issue tenders for the advisory contracts on the planned Al-Ghubrah independent water and power project (IWPP) in July. The 600MW plant [...]

China Harbour Engineering Company and South Korea's Hyundai Heavy Industries have submitted bids for the 2,400MW Ras al-Zour captive power plant project in Saudi Arabia. The 54-month contract includes a [...]

Cairo has moved a step closer to starting a nuclear power programme after the Egyptian Electricity Holding Company (EEHC) received seven bids for the consultancy contract for the scheme. The [...]

Abu Dhabi Water & Electricity Authority (Adwea) has reverted to its original plan of competitively tendering the Shuweihat 2 independent water and power project (IWPP), and will issue the request [...]

Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) is pushing ahead with two major power generation contracts to add more than 2,000 megawatts (MW) to the kingdom's total generating capacity. An award is imminent [...]

Commercial bids are due to be submitted by the end of 2007 for the planned 400-MW combined-cycle power plant at Ghannouch near Gabes on the east coast. France's Alstom and [...]

Masdar, the Abu Dhabi alternative energy initiative, is expected to decide on how the private sector will participate in the building of the Gulf's first major solar power plant by [...]

Sharjah Electricity & Water Authority is expected to extend the bid deadline for the emirate's largest power plant at Hamriyah from December to early 2008, after a request from firms. [...]

The project to build a coal-fired 1,320 MW power plant at Cap Ghir, near Agadir, has been scrapped, according to a source close to the project. Discussions are ongoing about [...]

Two groups submitted new technical bids for the contract to build two 1,200 MW combined-cycle power plants at Terga and Koudiet Draouch in early October. Bids were submitted by France's [...]

General Electricity Company of Libya (Gecol) has issued contractors with letters of intent to award contracts on the 1,400 MW extension to the Tripoli West power plant and the construction [...]

Construction of the country's first solar thermodynamics plant is due to start in mid-2008. The plant, which will be on the coast near Tripoli, will consist of a solar and [...]

Major international developers are lining up for the Yanbu independent water and power project, with The Power & Water Utility Company for Jubail and Yanbu (Marafiq) due to issue a [...]

Rising contracting prices are likely to increase the cost of the region's first copper smelter and refinery to in excess of $1,000 million, according to a senior project source. A [...]

Oman Power & Water Procurement Company is evaluating proposals for the retendered technical advisory contract on the Barka 3 independent water and power project (IWPP). It is also soon to [...]

Prequalified companies are preparing proposals for the engineering, procurement and construction contract to build the emirate's largest power plant at Hamriyah. Prequalifiers include the US' GE, France's Alstom, Germany's Siemens [...]

A joint venture of Austria's Aqua Engineering and the local Tecton Engineering has been awarded the AED 446 million ($122 million) engineering, procurement and construction contract for a desalination plant [...]

West Delta Electricity Production Company has selected the local/US Power Generation Engineering & Services Company (Pgesco) as consultant on the extension of the Abu Qir plant. The estimated 7,500 million [...]

The kingdom's fourth independent water and power project (IWPP) at Ras al-Zour on the Gulf coast has attracted 23 bids. In keeping with the timetable on previous IWPPs at Shouaiba [...]

The local Azarab Energy is low bidder at $85 million for the engineering, procurement and construction contract to supply six 25-30-MW gas turbines at the Rey open cycle power plant, [...]

Prequalified companies have until 21 May to submit bids for two engineering, procurement and construction contracts to build a 63-MW power plant and a desalination plant with capacity of 6,000 [...]

After months of protracted decision-making, Tripoli has cleared the way for South Korea's Daewoo Engineering & Construction to build two power plants for the General Electricity Company of Libya (Gecol). [...]

The issue of tender documents for the Cap Ghir independent power project has been postponed while Office National de l'Electricite deals with doubts over the site for the plant. 'There [...]

The Oman Power & Water Procurement Company (PWP) is inviting expressions of interest by 11 June from international consultants for a new independent water and power project. PWP is seeking [...]

The Electricity Ministry has retendered for the third time the engineering, procurement and construction contract to rehabilitate the Hartha power station in the south. The 800-MW plant is located 33 [...]

The threat of widespread blackouts is becoming a reality in the state after power cuts lasting for an hour were reported in Jahra, Farwaniya and Khaitan on 30 April. However, [...]

The UK/Japanese developer group of International Power (IP) and Marubeni Corporation is frontrunner to win the right to act as foreign partner on the Fujairah 2 independent water and power [...]

The General Electricity Company of Libya (Gecol) is preparing to issue tenders for new desalination plants despite major delays to existing power and water projects. The company is expected to [...]

The state-owned Oman Power & Water Procurement Company is due to request proposals for the Salalah independent water and power project by early June. At least 19 companies are prequalified [...]

The power purchase agreement has been signed for the 2,000-MW Mesaieed independent power project, some six months after the key project agreements were initialled. Signed by Qatar General Electricity & [...]

Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) has tendered another power plant project, inviting contractors to submit bids by 2 June for an electricity generating facility at Rabigh on the Red Sea coast. [...]

Australia's WorleyParsons has won the construction supervision contract for Egypt's 150-MW Kureimat hybrid power plant. The New & Renewable Energy Authority awarded the contract to WorleyParsons ahead of Germany's Fichtner [...]

Bids are under evaluation for one of the largest packages on the Qatalum smelter project, after three international groups submitted quotes to build the captive power plant. The bidders are [...]

Three companies have been prequalified to carry out mechanical works on the 650-MW El-Tebbine power plant. They are the Czech Republic's Skoda, Techint of Italy and Spain's Enertec Energia. The [...]

Final clarifications have been submitted to the Ministry of Energy (Electricity & Water) for the contract to build the Shuaiba north power and desalination plant. Two groups led by Japan's [...]

Australia's Worley Parsons and Italy's Technip submitted bids on 18 March for Abu Dhabi's first aluminium smelter to be built at Taweelah. The contract covers engineering, procurement and construction management [...]

Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) has issued the tender for the PP10 power plant, near Riyadh, inviting contractors to submit bids for the contract by the end of April. The contract [...]

Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Maaden) has approached local power developers to gauge their interest in becoming a partner in the captive power plant for its multi-billion-dollar aluminium complex at Ras [...]

Abu Dhabi is to build the Gulf's first major solar power plant as part of its Masdar advanced energy iniative. Masdar, which is being pro-rooted by the government-owned Abu Dhabi [...]

The local Alborz Industrial Development Investment Company (AIDIC) is planning a new Eur 223 million ($288 million) iron ore pelletising project near Bandar Abbas (see Tenders). The new plant, at [...]