Author: Paromita Dey

Dubai will save as much as AED 400mn ($109mn) per year on its energy bills once it introduces Dubai Lamp energy efficient light bulbs. That is according to Khalid Mohammed Sharif, Assistant Director General of Dubai Municipality for Environment, Health and Safety Sector who delivered the opening speech at the Dubai Lamp seminar, organized by the Applied Sustainability and Renewable Energy Department at Dubai Municipality. The Dubai Plan 2030 aims to cut non-clean energy by 30 percent, equivalent to 1,000 MW per year and carbon emissions by 16 percent by 2021. Dubai Municipality is currently training contractors and consultants on…

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Petrofac has been awarded a contract worth $1.3bn to build a gas gathering centre for Kuwait Oil Company’s (KOC). The lump-sum engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) project is the first sour gathering centre to be developed in the Burgan oil field and will process crude oil and associated gas recovered from the Arifjan, Marat, Minagish Oolite and Burgan Wara high Hydrogen Sulphide fields. Work will begin shortly and is scheduled to be completed in mid 2020, Petrofac said in a statement. The scope of work includes greenfield activities with tie-in works to existing brownfield infrastructure, and will have the capacity…

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