Company Insights Saudi Aramco Oil & Gas Saudi Aramco News Oil & Gas Italy’s Saipem awarded Aramco contracts worth $500m Saipem, an Italian oil services company, has been awarded contracts for two offshore projects worth $500 million from Saudi Aramco as part of its existing long-term agreement with the Saudi oil giant. The first project’s work scope involves engineering, procurement, construction and installation of a crude trunkline for the Abu Safa field. The second project involves […] July 16, 2024 Energy Adnoc Gas awards $550m Northern Emirates pipeline contract Adnoc Gas has awarded a $550 million engineering procurement and construction contract for the next phase of Estidama, its natural gas pipeline network project. It has also transferred the ownership of Estidama, worth $2.4 billion, to its parent company, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company. The contract, awarded to NMDC Energy of Abu Dhabi and Galfar […] July 15, 2024 Analysis Business of Sport Saudi football spending tipped to tumble as economy falters Saudi Arabia’s domestic football ambitions may have to take a back seat this year as the kingdom focuses on funding its $1.25 trillion giga-projects programme, according to analysts. Last summer Saudi Pro League clubs spent close to $1 billion signing the likes of Neymar, Ruben Neves and N’Golo Kante. This year’s transfer window is expected […] July 14, 2024 Opinion Renewable Energy Despite EVs, the ICE Age will last longer than expected Transition to electric transport will be slow and evolutionary July 11, 2024 Oil & Gas Aramco returns to debt markets after shares sale Saudi Aramco returned to the debt market on Wednesday, offering bonds maturing in 10, 30 and 40 years and aiming to raise at least $6 billion. The company is looking to capitalise on investors’ interest in its secondary share offering by raising more cash to finance its debt and a huge investment programme. Final terms […] July 10, 2024 Artificial Intelligence Google to fund AI research at Saudi university Kaust Google is providing research grants into artificial intelligence at Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Kaust). The $100,000 grants will boost recognised Kaust researchers doing work in multilingual and multimodal machine learning, and the development of large language models. The academic staff will be associated with its new Centre of Excellence on Generative […] July 9, 2024 Health Heat-health warning system planned for Abu Dhabi Abu Dhabi is to develop an official heat-stress index and a national heat-health warning system as rising temperatures threaten public health and businesses. The Abu Dhabi Public Health Centre has issued a tender for an index tailored to the UAE’s unique climate conditions, occupational settings, and the physiological differences among its diverse population. The UAE […] July 9, 2024 Finance Aramco to issue new bonds after $11bn share sale Saudi Aramco has appointed regional and global bankers for a new bond sale just a month after raising more than $11 billion from a secondary share offering. The oil giant, listed on the Saudi stock exchange, will issue senior unsecured US dollar-denominated bonds. The fund will aid in its general corporate purposes or any other […] July 9, 2024 Oil & Gas Energy giants to take 40% of Adnoc LNG plant Energy giants from France, the UK and Japan are expected to take stakes in the Ruwais liquefied natural gas project, run by Abu Dhabi National Oil Company. TotalEnergies, Shell, BP and Mitsui are expected to each take 10 percent of the project, which received a final investment decision last June. The Al Ruwais plant will […] July 8, 2024 Giga-projects Saudi university working to improve ‘green concrete’ Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Kaust) is developing direct carbon capture for buildings with the “green concrete” construction company Partanna. The Bahamas-based startup has already begun supplying a number of Saudi giga-projects with its concrete that absorbs carbon dioxide. These include housing company Roshn, tourist resort operator Red Sea Global and […] July 5, 2024 Posts navigation Previous 1 … 21 22 23 … 55 Next
Oil & Gas Italy’s Saipem awarded Aramco contracts worth $500m Saipem, an Italian oil services company, has been awarded contracts for two offshore projects worth $500 million from Saudi Aramco as part of its existing long-term agreement with the Saudi oil giant. The first project’s work scope involves engineering, procurement, construction and installation of a crude trunkline for the Abu Safa field. The second project involves […] July 16, 2024
Energy Adnoc Gas awards $550m Northern Emirates pipeline contract Adnoc Gas has awarded a $550 million engineering procurement and construction contract for the next phase of Estidama, its natural gas pipeline network project. It has also transferred the ownership of Estidama, worth $2.4 billion, to its parent company, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company. The contract, awarded to NMDC Energy of Abu Dhabi and Galfar […] July 15, 2024
Analysis Business of Sport Saudi football spending tipped to tumble as economy falters Saudi Arabia’s domestic football ambitions may have to take a back seat this year as the kingdom focuses on funding its $1.25 trillion giga-projects programme, according to analysts. Last summer Saudi Pro League clubs spent close to $1 billion signing the likes of Neymar, Ruben Neves and N’Golo Kante. This year’s transfer window is expected […] July 14, 2024
Opinion Renewable Energy Despite EVs, the ICE Age will last longer than expected Transition to electric transport will be slow and evolutionary July 11, 2024
Oil & Gas Aramco returns to debt markets after shares sale Saudi Aramco returned to the debt market on Wednesday, offering bonds maturing in 10, 30 and 40 years and aiming to raise at least $6 billion. The company is looking to capitalise on investors’ interest in its secondary share offering by raising more cash to finance its debt and a huge investment programme. Final terms […] July 10, 2024
Artificial Intelligence Google to fund AI research at Saudi university Kaust Google is providing research grants into artificial intelligence at Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Kaust). The $100,000 grants will boost recognised Kaust researchers doing work in multilingual and multimodal machine learning, and the development of large language models. The academic staff will be associated with its new Centre of Excellence on Generative […] July 9, 2024
Health Heat-health warning system planned for Abu Dhabi Abu Dhabi is to develop an official heat-stress index and a national heat-health warning system as rising temperatures threaten public health and businesses. The Abu Dhabi Public Health Centre has issued a tender for an index tailored to the UAE’s unique climate conditions, occupational settings, and the physiological differences among its diverse population. The UAE […] July 9, 2024
Finance Aramco to issue new bonds after $11bn share sale Saudi Aramco has appointed regional and global bankers for a new bond sale just a month after raising more than $11 billion from a secondary share offering. The oil giant, listed on the Saudi stock exchange, will issue senior unsecured US dollar-denominated bonds. The fund will aid in its general corporate purposes or any other […] July 9, 2024
Oil & Gas Energy giants to take 40% of Adnoc LNG plant Energy giants from France, the UK and Japan are expected to take stakes in the Ruwais liquefied natural gas project, run by Abu Dhabi National Oil Company. TotalEnergies, Shell, BP and Mitsui are expected to each take 10 percent of the project, which received a final investment decision last June. The Al Ruwais plant will […] July 8, 2024
Giga-projects Saudi university working to improve ‘green concrete’ Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Kaust) is developing direct carbon capture for buildings with the “green concrete” construction company Partanna. The Bahamas-based startup has already begun supplying a number of Saudi giga-projects with its concrete that absorbs carbon dioxide. These include housing company Roshn, tourist resort operator Red Sea Global and […] July 5, 2024
