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  Libya oil project on track for 2027 completion

  24 August 2026

  

   

  The project to develop a workers’ camp at Libya’s Erawin oil field is on track for completion next year, according to industry sources.

  The project, estimated to be worth about $50m, is being executed by the Libyan oil services company Al-Saraya Al-Hamara, headquartered in the city of Sebha.

  The Libyan company was awarded the contract in February 2025.

  The scope of the project includes:

  • Construction of an accommodation camp
  • Construction of the camp maintenance warehouse
  • Construction of the camp office
  • Construction of a fire brigade shelter
  • Construction of a kitchen and mess hall
  • Construction of a mosque
  • Construction of a laundry room
  • Construction of a clinic
  • Construction of parking facilities
  • Installation of a fire and gas system
  • Installation of a power generator
  • Construction of associated facilities

  The client on the project is Zallaf Libya Oil & Gas Exploration & Production Company.

  Zallaf Libya Oil & Gas Exploration & Production Company was established in Libya in 2013 and is wholly owned by Libya’s state-owned National Oil Corporation.

  The Erawin field development project is located about 800 kilometres south of Tripoli and 100km southwest of the El-Sharara field.

  Libya shipped its first cargo of crude from the Erawin oil field in November 2023.

  The shipment departed from Libya’s Zawiyah port and consisted of 600,000 barrels of crude.

  Australia-based Worley Parsons was appointed as the front-end engineering and design (feed) contractor for the early production facility project in 2019.

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  Tunisia extends bid deadline for gas pipeline project

  24 August 2026

  State-owned Tunisian Company of Electricity & Gas (Steg) has extended the bid deadline for a project to develop gas pipelines in the North African country.

  Earlier this year, the project was tendered with a bid deadline of 15 July. The new deadline is 30 September 2026.

  The scope of the project includes conducting studies, procuring equipment and materials, and performing construction work.

  Steg has received financing from the Islamic Development Bank to fund the project.

  The tender has been split into two packages.

  The first pipeline runs from the Tunisian town of Mourouj, in the suburbs of Tunis, to the town of Zriba.

  Along this route, the pipeline will be split into two sections.

  The first extends from Mourouj to the town of Fouchana, which lies to the south of the capital.

  Under existing plans, the pipeline will have a diameter of 20 inches and extend for 3.8 kilometres.

  The second section will extend for 43km to Zriba and have a diameter of 24 inches.

  The contract for package one has a 450-day completion period.

  The project’s second package focuses on a gas pipeline extending from Zriba to the town of M’saken.

  This pipeline will extend for 78km and have a diameter of 24 inches.

  The contract for this package also specifies a 450-day completion period.

  The procedure for the tender of both packages is an international call for tenders under the Islamic Development Bank guidelines for design, supply and installation.

  The Middle East and North Africa (Mena) region is currently seeing a surge in oil and gas pipeline projects as countries attempt to diversify routes through which hydrocarbons can be transported.

  The increased concerns about overreliance on a small number of transportation routes are a result of the regional conflict that started when the US and Israel attacked Iran on 28 February.

  The conflict severely disrupted oil and gas flows through the Strait of Hormuz, highlighting the importance of having a diverse range of import and export routes.

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  Adnoc plans new offshore-to-onshore oil transport pipeline

  20 August 2026

  

   

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  Abu Dhabi National Oil Company is moving ahead with an ambitious plan to build an oil pipeline network that will transport oil from its main offshore oil processing islands in the Gulf to its onshore crude export terminal in Jebel Dhanna, Abu Dhabi.

  The planned pipeline network will source crude from Zirku Island and Das Island, where Adnoc gathers and treats oil produced at Abu Dhabi’s offshore fields, among other processing hubs, and transport those volumes across 300 kilometres inland to the Jebel Dhanna terminal.

  According to sources, the proposed pipelines will eventually connect to the West-East crude pipeline network currently being built from Abu Dhabi’s Jebel Dhanna to the emirate of Fujairah, and is expected to be commissioned in 2027.

  The Abu Dhabi energy giant has awarded a contract for concept studies and front-end engineering and design (feed) to Abu Dhabi-based NT Energies, a joint venture of Abu Dhabi-based contractor NMDC Energy and France’s Technip Energies, sources told MEED.

  NT Energies is expected to carry out the concept studies and feed on a “fast-track basis”, with the work anticipated to take seven months, sources said.

  A kick-off meeting between the client and the appointed consultant took place on 6 July, sources added.

  Additionally, Adnoc has appointed Australia-headquartered Worley to provide project management consultancy (PMC) services, sources further said.

  West-East oil pipeline

  In May, Adnoc said it was accelerating work on the West-East crude transport pipeline project from Jebel Dhanna to Fujairah, upon directions from its board.

  The West-East pipeline project involves constructing a cross-country pipeline to transport crude from Adnoc’s export terminal at Jebel Dhanna to the Fujairah terminal, covering a distance of about 520km.

  The pipeline will double Adnoc’s crude export capacity through Fujairah on the Indian Ocean coast and enable shipments to bypass the geopolitically volatile Strait of Hormuz.

  Crude will be sourced from Adnoc’s offshore processing centres at Das, Zakum and Umm Lulu islands before being stored at new storage facilities to be built at the Jebel Dhanna terminal.

  The pipeline will be segmented into three sections:

  • Jebel Dhanna to Habshan main pumping station (MPS) – 115km
  • Habshan MPS to Sweihan depot – 254km
  • Sweihan depot to Fujairah terminal – 153km

  Adnoc awarded Egyptian contractor Engineering for Petroleum & Process Industries (Enppi) an engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCm) contract for the project in February 2024.

  Adnoc’s total spend on EPCm works could be as high as $3bn, MEED previously reported.

  Sources have told MEED that Adnoc has, in turn, appointed state-owned China Petroleum Pipeline (CPP) and locally based Bin Asheer to carry out construction works on the three segments of the West-East pipeline network.

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  Saudi Arabia builds for the global stage; Rising uncertainty creates fresh set of challenges in the Maghreb; Gulf banks remain robust in the face of geopolitical tensions.

  Distributed to senior decision-makers in the region and around the world, the August 2026 edition of MEED Business Review includes:

  > AGENDA: Expo 2030 Riyadh construction gathers pace > WORLD CUP: What the 2026 World Cup means for Saudi Arabia 2034 > MARKET FOCUS: Maghreb fortunes diverge > INDUSTRY REPORT: GCC banks prove resilient amid turmoil > LEADERSHIP: Private capital and the GCC infrastructure inflection > PORTS: Geopolitical risk shapes $513bn of global ports projects > INTERVIEW: Developers look beyond standalone solar

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  Contractors confirm Al-Maktoum airport people-mover award

  20 August 2026

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  A team of Japan’s Mitsubishi Corporation and Indian contractor Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has confirmed that it has won a design-and-build contract for the automated people-mover (APM) system for phase one of Al-Maktoum International airport in Dubai.

  In a statement released earlier today, L&T classified the contract as large, a term the company uses to denote an order value of $261m-$523m.

  MEED exclusively reported in July that Dubai Aviation Engineering Projects (DAEP) had selected a contractor to deliver the APM system as part of the first phase of the $35bn expansion of the airport.

  The APM system will serve as a critical facility for operations at Al-Maktoum International. The system will run under the apron of the entire airfield and the airport’s terminals. It will consist of several tracks, taking passengers from the terminals to the concourses.

  Four underground stations will be built as part of the first phase. The overall plan includes 14 stations at the airport.

  The firms submitted the bids for the project in July last year, as MEED exclusively reported.

  The contract is the latest in a series of awards signed by DAEP recently. It has awarded contracts valued at about AED13bn ($3.5bn), with construction works currently under way on several airport packages.

  These include enabling works, the second runway and the initial structural foundations for passenger terminals and gates.

  Upcoming awards

  In June, DAEP said that it will award contracts worth over AED55bn ($15bn) by the end of this year for construction works at Al-Maktoum International airport.

  The projects slated for contract awards include the substructure works for the western passenger terminal, the fourth aircraft concourse building and the baggage handling system, in addition to the superstructure works for the western passenger terminal and the first, second and third aircraft concourses.

  The packages also encompass long-span structural frameworks for buildings covering about 1.5 million square metres (sq m), infrastructure works for the southern airfield area and power generation and district cooling plants supporting the construction programme.

  The award of the facade and roofing packages is also planned for this year.

  Construction progress

  In May last year, MEED exclusively reported that DAEP had awarded a AED1bn ($272m) deal to UAE firm Binladin Contracting Group to construct the second runway at the airport.

  The enabling works on the terminal were awarded to Abu Dhabi-based Tristar E&C.

  Construction on the project’s first phase is expected to be completed by 2032.

  Construction of substructure works began in November last year, when DAEP formally selected a contractor to deliver the package.

  The government approved the updated designs and timelines for its largest construction project in April 2024.

  In a statement, the authorities said the plan is for all operations from Dubai International airport to be transferred to Al-Maktoum International within 10 years.

  According to an official description on DAEP’s website, the expanded airport’s West Terminal will be a seven-level, 800,000 sq m facility with an annual capacity of 45 million passengers.

  It will be the second of three terminals at the airport.

  In September 2024, MEED exclusively reported that a team comprising Austria’s Coop Himmelb(l)au and Lebanon’s Dar Al-Handasah had been confirmed as the lead masterplanning and design consultant on the expansion of Al-Maktoum.

  The airport’s construction is planned to be undertaken in three phases. It will cover an area of 70 square kilometres south of Dubai and will have five parallel runways and 430 aircraft gates.

  It will be five times the size of the existing Dubai International airport and will have the world’s largest passenger-handling capacity of 260 million passengers a year. For cargo, it will have the capacity to handle 12 million tonnes a year.

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  Saudi Arabia builds for the global stage; Rising uncertainty creates fresh set of challenges in the Maghreb; Gulf banks remain robust in the face of geopolitical tensions.

  Distributed to senior decision-makers in the region and around the world, the August 2026 edition of MEED Business Review includes:

  > AGENDA: Expo 2030 Riyadh construction gathers pace > WORLD CUP: What the 2026 World Cup means for Saudi Arabia 2034 > MARKET FOCUS: Maghreb fortunes diverge > INDUSTRY REPORT: GCC banks prove resilient amid turmoil > LEADERSHIP: Private capital and the GCC infrastructure inflection > PORTS: Geopolitical risk shapes $513bn of global ports projects > INTERVIEW: Developers look beyond standalone solar

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  Saudi Arabia awards estimated $1bn phosphate rail deal

  20 August 2026

  

   

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  Saudi Arabian Railways (SAR) has awarded an estimated SR4bn-plus ($1.1bn) contract to add another track to the first section of the existing phosphate transport railway network in the kingdom’s Eastern Province.

  The contract was awarded to local firm Alomaier Trading & Contracting Company.

  The scope includes track doubling, alignment modifications, utility bridges, culvert widening and hydrological structures, as well as the conversion of the AZ1 siding into a mainline track.

  The scope also covers support for signalling and telecommunications systems.

  The existing railway line runs from the Waad Al-Shamal mines to Ras Al-Khair. The new project will cover about 100 kilometres (km), connecting the AZ1/Nariyah Yard to Ras Al-Khair.

  Switzerland-based engineering firm ARX is the project consultant.

  The project is the first of four packages for the phosphate railway line that SAR is expected to award imminently.

  In 2023, MEED reported that SAR was planning two projects to increase its freight capacity, including an estimated SR4.2bn ($1.1bn) project to install a second track on the North Train freight line and construct three new freight yards.

  Formerly known as the North-South Railway, the North Train is a 1,550km-long freight line running from the phosphate and bauxite mines in the far north of the kingdom to the Al-Baithah junction. There, it diverges into a line southward to Riyadh and a second line running east to downstream fertiliser production and alumina refining facilities at Ras Al-Khair on the Gulf coast.

  Adding a second track and the freight yards will significantly increase cargo-carrying capacity on the network and facilitate growth in industrial production. Project implementation is expected to take four years.

  State-owned SAR is also considering increasing the localisation of railway-focused materials and equipment, including the construction of a cement sleeper manufacturing facility.

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  Saudi Arabia builds for the global stage; Rising uncertainty creates fresh set of challenges in the Maghreb; Gulf banks remain robust in the face of geopolitical tensions.

  Distributed to senior decision-makers in the region and around the world, the August 2026 edition of MEED Business Review includes:

  > AGENDA: Expo 2030 Riyadh construction gathers pace > WORLD CUP: What the 2026 World Cup means for Saudi Arabia 2034 > MARKET FOCUS: Maghreb fortunes diverge > INDUSTRY REPORT: GCC banks prove resilient amid turmoil > LEADERSHIP: Private capital and the GCC infrastructure inflection > PORTS: Geopolitical risk shapes $513bn of global ports projects > INTERVIEW: Developers look beyond standalone solar

  To see previous issues of MEED Business Review, please click here

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  Yasir Iqbal