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  SSH to supervise Dubai Expo residences construction

  3 September 2025

  Dubai-based firm SSH has announced that it is working as the main works supervision consultant for the Sky Residences project in Expo City Dubai.

  The project is located on a plot adjacent to the Expo 2020 Dubai site.

  Main construction works are currently under way and are being carried out by local contractor Abr Al-Mutawassit Contracting Company.

  The development is expected to feature 419 residential units, ranging from one- to three-bedroom apartments.

  In addition to SSH, local firm DP Architects is acting as the design consultant for the project.

  Expo City Dubai launched its residential projects at the Expo 2020 site in March 2023. 

  These include Expo Central, comprising three clusters of buildings known as Mangrove Residences, Sidra Residences and Sky Residences. The villa community is named Expo Valley.

  Dubai announced in June 2022 that the expo site would be transitioned into a mixed-use district known as Expo City Dubai.

  Nearly 80% of the built assets are being retained, including landmarks such as Al-Wasl Plaza, the Garden in the Sky observation deck, the Surreal water feature, the Terra Sustainability Pavilion and the Mobility Pavilion.

  

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  Yasir Iqbal
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  Oman offers four mining concessions to investors

  3 September 2025

  Oman’s Ministry of Energy & Minerals (MEMR) has offered four mining concessions in the sultanate to investors.

  Local and international mining firms have until 31 March next year to submit their applications for the four concession areas, the MEMR announced on its Taqa platform.

  Block 11D is spread across 1,084 square kilometres (sq km) in Al-Buraimi governorate, and is estimated to hold reserves of copper, gold, silver, chromite, basalt and gabbro.

  Block 14B covers 2,673 sq km in Al-Batinah South governorate, and is estimated to hold reserves of copper, gold, silver, chromite, basalt and gabbro.

  Block 22E is spread across 810 sq km in Al-Sharqiyah North governorate, and is estimated to hold reserves of copper, gold, silver, chromite, basalt and gabbro.

  Block 51H is the largest concession on offer, spanning 4,181 sq km in Al-Wusta governorate. The block is estimated to hold reserves of silica, salt and kaolin.

  The offering of the four concession areas comes within weeks of the MEMR awarding exploration rights for three mining concessions in the sultanate to two Omani firms, securing investments worth more than $500m in the process.

  ALSO READ: Oman invites miners to participate in new licensing round

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  Indrajit Sen
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  PetroChina issues tenders for Iraq oil projects

  3 September 2025

  PetroChina, the listed arm of state-owned China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), has issued two oil project tenders in Iraq.

  The first is for the provision of engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning (EPCC) services for an operational hub for Missan Oil Company (MOC) at the Halfaya oil field. The deadline for submitting bids is 5 October.

  MOC is a state-owned oil and gas company located in Iraq’s Maysan governorate.

  The project will develop the Halfaya Oilfield Division Operations Centre, according to the tender documents. This hub is likely to play a key role in the field’s ongoing development.

  The second tender is for study services related to the development of green energy and natural gas utilisation facilities at the Halfaya field. The bid submission deadline for this tender is 30 September.

  In June last year, Iraq inaugurated a project to upgrade gas compression systems at the field.

  China Petroleum Engineering & Construction Corporation (CPECC), a subsidiary of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), was awarded the contract in January 2023 after nearly three years of negotiations.

  Commercial bid submission for the project originally took place in July 2020.

  The contract for the project was signed on 4 March 2023, using the EPCC model.

  Its scope focused on improving the gas compression system at the facilities known as Central Processing Facility (CPF) 1 and CPF 2.

  

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  Wil Crisp
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  Syria signs deal for 100MW solar power plant

  2 September 2025

  Syria’s Public Establishment for Transmission & Distribution of Electricity has signed a contract with Syrian-Turkish Energy Company to build a 100MW solar power plant in Hama Governorate.

  Located in the Kafr Buhum area, the project will be connected to the high-voltage network at 230kV, increasing electricity supply and potentially reducing outage hours.

  According to the authority's general director, Khaled Abu Di, the project will “utilise clean renewable energy technologies through the use of photovoltaic panels”.

  He said that the deal followed several months of proposal evaluations, with the chosen bid selected on the basis of efficiency and economic feasibility.

  Construction and preparation are expected to take 12 months, after which the plant will enter service at full capacity.

  The project is part of wider efforts to rebuild Syria's electricity sector, which has faced years of infrastructure damage and supply shortages.

  In June, MEED reported that Syria's Electricity Ministry had signed a $7bn memorandum of understanding with a Qatar-led consortium for 5GW of gas and solar power capacity.

  The agreement covers the development of four combined-cycle gas turbine power plants with an installed capacity of 4GW, and a 1GW solar power plant.

  The projects will be implemented under build-own-operate and build-operate-transfer models alongside power-purchase agreements.

  Once completed, they are expected to double the country's output.

  

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  Mark Dowdall
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  October deadline for Abu Dhabi underwater museum

  2 September 2025

  

   

  Abu Dhabi has set a deadline of 31 October for contractors to submit their proposals to build an underwater marine museum in the UAE capital.

  The client, the Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi (EAD), issued the tender in November last year. The previous bid submission deadline was 31 August.

  According to the official notice, the project scope includes the construction, production, transportation, installation and handover of the museum elements, based on the pre-specified design.

  The notice also outlines that the scope includes the fabrication and transportation of museum components, along with “site preparation of the seabed”.

  The EAD is seeking a single bidder with experience of similar projects and a team of qualified professionals, including marine, structural and civil engineers; technical diving teams; quantity surveyors; and planning engineers.

  Abu Dhabi Tourism Strategy 2030

  Building the underwater museum supports the Abu Dhabi Tourism Strategy 2030, which was approved in May 2024. Abu Dhabi’s Department of Culture & Tourism is leading the strategy’s execution.

  The strategy seeks to achieve a 7% year-on-year growth by increasing the number of visitors from 24 million in 2023 to 39.3 million by 2030.

  The plan also aims to increase the tourism and travel sector’s contribution to the UAE’s GDP from about AED49bn ($13.34bn) in 2023 to AED90bn ($24.5bn) by 2030.

  In April 2024, the Abu Dhabi Projects & Infrastructure Centre announced that the Abu Dhabi Executive Council had approved the launch of 144 projects in the emirate.

  These were approved with a total expenditure of approximately AED66bn ($18bn) and cover several sectors, including natural resources, tourism, education and human capital, and housing and quality of life.

  Of the total investment, AED59bn ($16.1bn) was allocated to establishing housing and public facilities throughout the emirate, AED4bn ($1.1bn) was allocated for education and human capital projects and about AED1.9bn ($517.4m) was earmarked for the emirate’s natural resources and to enhance infrastructure development. The remaining AED1.1bn ($300m) was allocated to schemes that aim to boost tourism.

  UK data analytics firm GlobalData expects the UAE construction industry to register annual growth of 3.9% in 2025-27, supported by investments in infrastructure, renewable energy, oil and gas, housing, industrial and tourism projects.

  GlobalData expects the commercial construction sector to expand by 5.6% in 2025-28, supported by a recovery in tourism activities and investments in the hospitality sector.

  

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  Yasir Iqbal