Bahrain Petroleum Company (Bapco) has awarded a $4.2bn contract to Tecnicas Reunidas and its joint venture partners Technip and Samsung for the Bapco Modernization Program (BMP).
Italian construction firm Itinera has secured a $620m contract from Al Farwaniya Property Developments for the construction of Reem Mall, a new retail, leisure, dining and entertainment destination, in Abu Dhabi.
Saudi Railway Company (SAR) has opened a fourth station on the Northern Railway network at Hail city.
Azizi Developments, a real estate developer based in Dubai, has begun construction of Azizi Victoria in the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum City – District Seven.
Al Farwaniya Property Developments, the consortium behind Abu Dhabi’s Reem Mall, announced that financing for the $1.2bn project is now complete.
Target Engineering Construction Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Arabtec Holding, has bagged a contract worth AED950m ($258.6m) from Emaar Properties for Phase 2 of Forte, a residential development in Downtown Dubai.
Abu Dhabi-based National Petroleum Constructions Company (NPCC) has bagged a $326m engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract from Saudi Aramco for its offshore platforms and two pipelines at its Al Safaniya oilfields.
The first phase of Parallel Roads Improvement project in the Godolphin vicinity, which includes two phases costing AED1bn ($272m), has been opened.
China-based Cosco Shipping Ports and Abu Dhabi Ports have broken ground for the construction of a new container terminal at Khalifa Port in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
GE has completed construction work on the 1.5GW Badr substation in Cairo, Egypt and work on connecting the facility to the national grid.
Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) and GlassPoint Solar have completed work on the first block of the 1GW Miraah solar plant in Oman.
Majid Al Futtaim, a mall operator, has broken ground on a new AED1.4bn ($381m) lifestyle destination in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
A consortium of IFC and other lenders has granted $653m in debt package for 13 solar projects at the Benban Solar Park near the city of Aswan in Egypt.
Norwegian firm Scatec Solar (SSO) and partners have reached financial close on six solar PV power plants in Egypt.
The governmentof Saudi Arabia has unveiled plans for a $500bn new economic zone known as NEOM in the kingdom’s northwestern region.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), Green Climate Fund (GCF) and the Dutch Development Bank (FMO) have granted $87m in funding for the construction and operation of two solar photovoltaic (PV) power plants in Egypt.
Multiplex Constructions has bagged a mixed-use twin tower construction contract from the UAE-based Address Residences Jumeirah Resort + Spa.
Spanish renewable energy company Acciona Energía has teamed up with Swicorp (Saudi Arabia) to build and own three identical photovoltaic plants in Egypt.
Zublin Construction has won a contract worth AED500m ($136m) from the Department of Culture and Tourism (DCT) of Abu Dhabi to renovate the Cultural Foundation Building at Qasr Al Hosn in UAE.
China State Construction Engineering Corp (CSCEC) has been awarded a contract worth $3bn by the Egyptian government to build a Central Business District (CBD) in Egypt’s new administrative capital.