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Dubai extends bid deadlines for key drainage projects Administrator31 October 2025
Dubai Municipality has extended the bid submission deadlines for two key drainage projects under the $8bn Tasreef programme to develop, rehabilitate and expand Dubai’s stormwater drainage network.
The first project, listed as TF-05-C1, involves a stormwater drainage system in Jebel Ali and the surrounding areas.
The new deadline is 10 November, a source close to the project told MEED.
The project covers approximately 27 kilometres of stormwater network and will serve major transport routes, including Sheikh Zayed Road and Al-Jamayel Road.
The bid submission date for the tender, was initially 2 October before being extended to 30 October.
The second project, listed under TF-11-C1, is for the development of a stormwater pond, evacuation line and pumping station.
The project includes a comprehensive stormwater drainage system, featuring a tunnel ranging from three to four metres in diameter along Dubai–Al Ain Road and the D54.
The new deadline is 4 November.
The bid submission date for the tender, was initially 25 September.
The schemes are being procured by the municipality’s Sewerage and Recycled Water Projects Department as part of the Tasreef programme.
In October, Dubai Municipality awarded contracts for two other major projects under the initiative.
Local firm DeTech Contracting won the main contract for the construction of a stormwater drainage system on Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Road and Al-Yalayis Road in Dubai.
The municipality alos awarded a contract to Greece/Lebanon-based Archirodon for the construction of the Resilient Future Flow Outfall project.
The $25m project involves the construction of a 4-kilometre subsea pipeline with a 2-metre diameter and a discharge capacity of 9 cubic metres a second.
The Tasreef masterplan that will serve key areas across the emirate, including Nad Al-Hamar, the vicinity of Dubai International airport, Garhoud, Rashidiya, Al-Quoz, Zabeel, Al-Wasl, Jumeirah and Al-Badaa. The initiative aims to expand Dubai’s rainwater drainage capacity by 700% by 2033.
DeTech Consulting previously won the $136m contract to upgrade the West Deira stormwater system.
This project was the first of the five planned Tasreef projects to enter construction, earlier this year.
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Gas demand reshapes priorities Administrator31 October 2025
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Colin Foreman
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Gas has increasingly been regarded as a crucial transition fuel over the past decade as governments race to cut carbon emissions and meet climate pledges – including the Paris Agreement’s aim to keep warming well below 2°C and pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5°C.
Those commitments have driven the demand for liquefied natural gas (LNG) globally and this has reshaped investment priorities across the region, with Qatar, Oman and the UAE eyeing future export growth.QatarEnergy’s North Field expansion is the largest investment. The estimated $40bn programme will push Qatar’s LNG output towards 142 million tonnes a year by the end of this decade, almost doubling its present position and consolidating its role as a market anchor.
Abu Dhabi is also committed to expanding its capacity. Its downstream strategies include a major greenfield LNG terminal at Ruwais, due to enter service in 2028 with two 4.8 million t/y trains adding 9.6 million t/y to the UAE’s export capability.
These programmes are keeping contractors busy. Over the past five years, more than $44bn of LNG-related contracts have been awarded in the region – which is more than eight times the $5.3bn recorded in the previous five year period.
At the same time, there are ample opportunities for contractors as other countries in the region build import infrastructure. Projects are already under way in Kuwait, Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, Algeria and Morocco – and more are expected.
With base load concerns remaining for many countries when it comes to completely switching to renewables, gas is expected to be a fuel of choice for the decades to come. The investments made in production capacity mean the region will play a pivotal role in delivering the world’s energy needs.
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Dubai evaluates Al-Maktoum airport substructure bids Administrator31 October 2025
Dubai Aviation Engineering Projects (DAEP) is evaluating the bids it received from contractors on 15 September for substructure works for the first phase of the expansion of Al-Maktoum International airport.
“The bid evaluation is ongoing and the project is expected to be awarded by the end of this year,” sources close to the project told MEED.
MEED understands that the bidders include:
- Alec (local)
- China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (China)
- China State Construction Engineering Corporation (China)
- China Harbour Engineering Company (China)
- Dutco Construction (local)
- Innovo (local)
- Limak / PowerChina (Turkiye/China)
- Shapoorji Pallonji (India)
- Webuild / Tristar (Italy/local)
According to an official description on DAEP’s website, the expanded airport’s West Terminal will be a seven-level, 800,000-square-metre facility with an annual capacity of 45 million passengers.
It will be the second of three terminals at Al-Maktoum International airport, linked to the airside by a 14-station automated people-mover (APM) system.
In August, MEED exclusively reported that DAEP had received bids from firms to build the APM at Al-Maktoum airport.
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 across the airport.
The airport’s construction is planned to be undertaken in three phases. The airport will cover an area of 70 square kilometres (sq km) south of Dubai and will have five parallel runways, five terminal buildings and 400 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.
Construction progress
Construction on the first phase has already begun. In May, 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 are also ongoing and are being undertaken by Abu Dhabi-based Tristar E&C.
While speaking to the press on the sidelines of the Airport Show in Dubai in May, Khalifa Al-Zaffin, executive chairman of Dubai Aviation City Corporation, said the government of Dubai will award more packages this year, including for the APM and baggage handling systems.
“Several other packages are expected to be tendered this year, including the terminal substructure, 132kV substations and district cooling plants,” Al-Zaffin said.
Construction works on the project’s first phase are expected to be completed by 2032.
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.
The statement added that the project will create housing demand for 1 million people around the airport.
In September last year, 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 consultants on the expansion of Al-Maktoum airport.
Project history
The expansion of Al-Maktoum International, also known as Dubai World Central (DWC), is a long-standing project. It was officially launched in 2014, with a different design from the one approved in April 2024. At that time, it involved building the biggest airport in the world by 2050, with the capacity to handle 255 million passengers a year.
An initial phase, due to be completed in 2030, involved increasing the airport’s capacity to 130 million passengers a year. The development was to cover an area of 56 sq km.
Progress on the project slipped as the region grappled with the impact of lower oil prices and Dubai focused on developing the Expo 2020 site. Tendering for work on the project then stalled with the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in early 2020.
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Financial close reached for Jubail-Buraydah link Administrator31 October 2025
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Saudi Water Partnership Company (SWPC) has announced financial close for the Jubail-Buraydah independent water transmission pipeline (IWTP) project.
Saudi Arabia’s second IWTP project will link Jubail in the kingdom’s Eastern Province and Buraydah in the Qassim region via a 587-kilometre (km) pipeline that can transmit 650,000 cubic metres a day (cm/d) of water.
It will have a potable water storage capacity of 1.63 million cubic metres.
The project will have a total cost of SR8.5bn ($2.2bn).
A developer team comprising local companies Aljomaih Energy & Water, Nesma Company and Buhur for Investment Company was named as the preferred bidder for the contract last year.
The Aljomaih, Nesma and Buhur team had proposed to develop the project for SR3.59468 a cubic metre.
SWPC signed a contract agreement to develop and operate the Jubail-Buraydah IWTP project in May.
The project is being developed under a build-own-operate-transfer model with a 35-year concession period from the project’s commercial operation date.
Local content is expected to reach 45% during the construction phase and 70% during operations.
Commercial operation is scheduled for the first quarter of 2029.
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Libya oil project expected to progress despite Petrofac collapse Administrator31 October 2025
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The tender process for Libya’s 6J North Gialo oil field development project is expected to progress following Petrofac’s announcement that it has gone into administration, according to industry sources.
UK-based Petrofac is one of just two companies that submitted bids for the project. The other is Egypt-based Petrojet.
In September, MEED revealed that the bids had been submitted for the project and were under evaluation.
The client on the project is Libya’s Waha Oil Company and Petrofac completed the front-end engineering and design (feed) for the project in 2020.
Waha is a joint venture of Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC), France’s TotalEnergies and US-based ConocoPhillips.
Commenting on the impact of Petrofac’s insolvency, one industry source said: “This has definitely increased uncertainty for the project.
“It could potentially mean that this contract is retendered, but there is a lot of confidence that this tender will still go ahead in some form.
“Waha Oil and Libya’s NOC have made it clear that this project is a priority and they want it to go ahead.
“Progress is still expected on this tender, but it is possible that there will be more delays before this contract is awarded and signed.”
The 6J North Gialo field development project is part of a series of tenders that are collectively expected to be worth $1bn.
The three projects are:
- NC98
- Gialo 3
- 6J North Gialo
All three projects will develop Libyan reservoirs that have not yet been tapped.
The 6J North Gialo project was the first to be tendered and it is expected to be followed by NC98, with the Gialo 3 project likely to be tendered last.
Together, the projects are expected to double Waha’s production from about 300,000 barrels a day (b/d) of oil to 600,000 b/d. The Waha concession covers 13 million acres.
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Firms prepare project management bids for Dorra gas scheme Administrator31 October 2025
Engineering firms are preparing to submit bids to Al-Khafji Joint Operations (KJO) for a tender covering project management consultancy (PMC) for the multibillion-dollar Dorra gas field facilities development project.
MEED reported in March that KJO was pushing forward with a major project to produce gas from the Dorra offshore field, located in Gulf waters in the Neutral Zone shared by Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.
KJO has divided the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) scope of work on the project to produce gas from the Dorra field into four EPC packages – three offshore and one onshore.
The broad scope of services under the tender involves providing PMC for EPC works for the Dorra gas facilities development project.
KJO issued the tender for PMC services for EPC works on the Dorra gas facilities development project on 29 September. Engineering firms have until 24 November to submit bids for the tender, sources told MEED.
According to sources, the following firms, among others, are understood to be bidding for the PMC tender:
- Fluor (US)
- KBR (US)
- Kent (Saudi Arabia/UAE)
- Tecnicas Reunidas (Spain)
- Wood (UK)
- Worley (Australia)
KJO hosted a job explanation meeting with the bidders for the tender on 15 October, as per sources.
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MEED recently reported that Indian contractor Larsen & Toubro Energy Hydrocarbon (L&TEH) has won the main EPC contract for offshore package 1 of the Dorra gas field facilities project.
The contract awarded by KJO to L&TEH is estimated to be valued between $140m and $150m, sources told MEED.
In August, MEED reported that L&TEH had emerged as the frontrunner to win offshore package 1 of the Dorra gas field facilities project, based on KJO's initial bid evaluation.
Contractors submitted bids for the package by a deadline of 2 June, it was previously reported.
With regards to the other three EPC packages of the Dorra gas field offshore and onshore facilities project, the following contractors are understood to be among those bidding:
- Lamprell (Saudi Arabia/UAE)
- Larsen & Toubro Energy Hydrocarbon (India)
- McDermott (US)
- NMDC Energy (UAE)
- Saipem (Italy)
Contractors are currently working towards a bid submission deadline of 31 October for the project's other three EPC packages – offshore packages 2A and 2B and onshore package 3, according to sources.
The previous bid submission deadlines for the three packages were 30 June, 31 July, 25 August and 15 September.
The EPC scope of work on the packages of the Dorra gas field offshore and onshore facilities project is as follows:
Package 2A – Dorra gas field wellhead topsides, flowlines and umbilicals
- Seven gas wellhead platforms or topsides, with production routed to the central gathering platform
- Corrosion-resistant, alloy-lined intra-field flowlines and umbilicals connecting the gas wellhead platforms to the central gathering platform and the auxiliary platform
Package 2B: Dorra central gathering platform complex, export pipelines and cables
- Central gathering platform
- Auxiliary platform
- Dorra accommodation platform
- Flare platform
- Bridge platform
- Pipelines for gas and condensate transmission to each shareholder
- Produced water pipeline from the central gathering platform to Al-Khafji field and from the planned onshore processing facility next to the Al-Zour refinery in Kuwait to Al-Khafji field
- Recovered monoethylene glycol (MEG) pipeline from Al-Khafji field to the central gathering platform
- Control and power system linking Al-Khafji onshore facilities to offshore units
- Offshore central control room at Dorra accommodation platform
Package 3: Onshore gas processing facilities
- Buildings to be constructed as part of KJO’s Dorra project onshore package include:
- Dorra control building
- Operator building
- Operations, maintenance and engineering building
- Process interface building
- Onshore 115/69kV substation
- Two gas-insulated substations
- Warehouse
- Maintenance building
- Mosque
- Telecommunications tower radio building
- Beach valve substation at the planned onshore processing facility next to the Al-Zour refinery in Kuwait
- Processing facilities for KJO's onshore package:
- Produced water receiving and treatment
- Sour water stripping and treated water system
- Rich MEG storage tank
- MEG regeneration and reclamation
- Recovered hydrocarbons system
- Lean MEG storage and supply
- Fresh MEG storage and supply
- Beach valve stations at Al-Khafji and Al-Zour
- Utilities:
- Instrument and plant air system
- Nitrogen generation system
- Diesel storage and distribution system
- Fuel gas system
- Closed drain and slop tank system
- Hazardous area open drains system
- Industrial water system
- Drinking water system
- Flare gas recovery system and a low-pressure flare system
- Fire water system
- Emergency diesel generator
- Sewage treatment
The Dorra field is estimated to hold 20 trillion cubic metres of gas and 310 million barrels of oil.
Kuwait and Saudi Arabia have been working together to develop the offshore field since it was discovered in 1965. The two sides expect to produce about 1 billion cubic feet a day of gas from the asset and have agreed to split the gas output equally.
A geopolitical tussle over ownership of the asset has hampered progress.
Iran, which calls the field Arash, claims that it partially extends into its territory and that Tehran should be a stakeholder in any development project.
Kuwait and Saudi Arabia maintain that the Dorra field lies entirely in the waters of their shared territory, known as the Neutral Zone or Divided Zone, and that Iran has no legal basis for its claim.
In February 2024, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia reiterated their claim to the Dorra field in a joint statement issued during an official meeting in Riyadh between Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed Bin Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud.
KJO, which is jointly owned by Saudi Aramco subsidiary Aramco Gulf Operations Company and Kuwait Gulf Oil Company, a subsidiary of state-owned Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC), is understood to have issued the tenders for the project in August 2024.
MEED reported in September 2023 that Aramco and KPC had selected France’s Technip Energies to carry out front-end engineering and design (feed) and pre-feed work on the Dorra offshore field development project.
The original feed work for a project to develop the field was performed more than a decade ago. However, due to changes in technology, the engineering design needed to be updated before the project could reach a final investment decision.
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Oman invites consultancy bids for wind and solar IPPs Administrator31 October 2025
Oman state offtaker Nama Power & Water Procurement Company (Nama PWP) has invited bids for financial and commercial consultancy services for the development of renewable energy independent power producer (IPP) projects in Oman.
The tender, referenced under OPWP/2025/039, covers planned solar and wind projects.
The bid submission deadline is 13 November.
According to the company, the selected consultant will advise on structuring, financial modelling, risk assessment and transaction support for the procurement of future renewable IPP projects.
Nama PWP, part of the government-owned Nama Group, has been driving the country’s energy transition through multiple solar and wind IPPs in Dhofar, Ibri, Manah and other regions.
In October, it issued a separate tender for supervisory consultancy services for the Duqm, Sadah and Mahout wind IPPs.
The bid submission deadline is 20 November.
The three IPPs are part of Nama PWP's plans to procure five wind power stations with a combined capacity of 1,171MW.
The planned schemes and their capacities are:
- Dhofar 2: 132MW
- Sadah: 99MW
- Duqm: 270MW
- Mahout: 400MW
- Jaalan Bani Bu Ali: 270MW
MEED understands that the deadline for supervisory consultancy services bids for the Dhofar 2 and Jaalan Ban Bu Ali projects has now closed and these bids are in the evaluation stage.
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Contractor progresses with Qatar LNG decarbonisation project Administrator30 October 2025
Engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) works are progressing on an estimated $2bn to $2.5bn carbon dioxide (CO2) sequestration complex project of QatarEnergy LNG covering its liquefied natural gas (LNG) production operations in Qatar’s Ras Laffan Industrial City (RLIC).
Once commissioned, the planned sequestration facility will be capable of capturing 4.3 million tonnes a year (t/y) of CO2 from QatarEnergy LNG’s production operations in RLIC.
QatarEnergy LNG, a subsidiary of state enterprise QatarEnergy, awarded the main EPC contract for the CO2 sequestration project to South Korean contractor Samsung C&T, sources told MEED.
The letter of award for the EPC contract was issued by QatarEnergy LNG to Samsung C&T on 27 May, according to a source.
The following contractors are among those that are understood to have submitted bids in April for EPC works on the QatarEnergy LNG CO2 sequestration project:
- Chiyoda (Japan) / Consolidated Contractors Company (Greece/Lebanon)
- Larsen & Toubro Energy Hydrocarbon (India)
- Samsung C&T (South Korea)
Based on the initial evaluation of bids, Larsen & Toubro Energy Hydrocarbon is understood to have pulled ahead in the race for the project’s contract, MEED previously reported. However, sources, at the time, added that the situation could change.
QatarEnergy LNG awarded Australia-headquartered consultancy Worley a contract in September 2023 to execute the front-end engineering and design (feed) work on the project and to prepare the EPC scope of work.
CO2 sequestration facility
The planned sequestration facility will capture CO2 from seven LNG trains at the QG North complex and three LNG trains at the QG South complex.
The CO2 captured from the trains is to be dehydrated, compressed and transferred via a new 154-kilometre pipeline, to be injected into wells at the Dukhan oil field development onshore Qatar for a related enhanced oil recovery pilot scheme.
The pilot project is part of QatarEnergy’s long-term strategy for the redevelopment of the Dukhan fields that will contribute to the recovery of additional crude.
The detailed EPC scope of work on the CO2 sequestration project covers the following:
- QG North complex:
- Installation of four new electric-driven compressors
- New power substation for power import from Kahramaa 65MW
- New ITR for DCS/ESD/F&G
- Tie-ins with utility units
- Dehydration package
- Pig launcher
- QG South complex:
- Installation of two new electric-driven compressors
- Integration with South injection system unit 85
- Solvent reformulation for South trains 1/23
- New power substation for power import from Kahramaa 35MW
- New SIH for DCS/ESD/F&G
- Tie-ins with utility units
- Dehydration package
- Chillers package
- Pig launcher
- RLIC corridors
- Common 22-inch export pipeline stretching 18 kilometres
- Power tie-in RLF3 with Kahramaa
- Electric cables
- Fiber optic cable
- Lot W15
- Six injection wells by QatarEnergy LNG subsurface
- Six injection flowlines and metring skid
- Six wellhead control panels
- Power tie-in from Barzan
- Substation
- Pig receiver
- Access road and fencing
The project will directly reduce CO2 emissions because some of the CO2 injected into wells at the Dukhan oil field will remain in the reservoir after injection.
The CO2 sequestration complex in RLIC is expected to start operations by the end of 2027.
North Field LNG expansion
Meanwhile, QatarEnergy LNG continues to press forward with its North Field LNG expansion programme.
The estimated $40bn North Field LNG expansion programme aims to raise Qatar’s total LNG production capacity from 77.5 million t/y to 142 million t/y in three phases.
QatarEnergy is understood to have spent almost $30bn on the two phases of the North Field LNG expansion programme, North Field East and North Field South, which will increase its LNG production capacity from 77.5 million t/y to 126 million t/y by 2028.
EPC works on the two projects are making progress.
QatarEnergy awarded the main EPC contracts in 2021 for the North Field East project, which is projected to increase LNG output to 110 million t/y by this year. The main $13bn EPC package, which covers the engineering, procurement, construction and installation of four LNG trains with capacities of 8 million t/y each, was awarded to a consortium of Japan’s Chiyoda Corporation and France’s Technip Energies in February 2021.
QatarEnergy awarded the main EPC contract for the North Field South LNG project, worth $10bn, in May 2023. The contract covers two large LNG processing trains, each with a capacity of 7.8 million t/y, and was awarded to a consortium of Technip Energies and Lebanon-based Consolidated Contractors Company.
When fully commissioned, the first two phases of the North Field LNG expansion programme will contribute a total supply capacity of 48 million t/y to the global LNG market.
In February 2024, QatarEnergy announced the third phase of its North Field LNG expansion programme. To be called North Field West, the project will further increase QatarEnergy’s LNG production capacity to 142 million t/y when it is commissioned by 2030.
The North Field West project will have an LNG production capacity of 16 million t/y, which is expected to be achieved through two 8 million t/y LNG processing trains, based on the two earlier phases of QatarEnergy’s LNG expansion programme. The new project will draw feedstock for LNG production from the western zone of Qatar’s North Field offshore gas reserve.
The state enterprise recently started a prequalification process for the main tendering exercise for dredging works on the North Field West project.
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New Murabba signs up consultants for project delivery Administrator30 October 2025
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Saudi Arabia’s New Murabba Development Company (NMDC) has signed agreements with three US-based engineering firms to undertake design works on various assets at the New Murabba downtown project in Riyadh.
The client signed an agreement with New York-headquartered firm Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) to lead early design works for the first residential community within the New Murabba development.
The other agreements were signed with Aecom and Jacobs, who have been appointed as the lead design consultants for the Mukaab district.
The latest agreements build on NMDC’s August signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with another US-based firm, Falcons Creative Group, to develop the creative vision and immersive experiences for the Mukaab project at the New Murabba development.
The Mukaab is a Najdi-inspired landmark that is set to become one of the largest buildings in the world, standing 400 metres high, 400 metres wide and 400 metres long.
Internally, it will feature a tower atop a spiral base, with 2 million square metres (sq m) of floor space dedicated to hospitality. The structure will include commercial areas, cultural and tourist attractions, residential and hotel units and recreational facilities.
This latest announcement follows other MoUs that NMDC has signed in recent months. In August, NMDC signed an MoU with Alat, a Public Investment Fund-backed company, to explore the development and integration of technologies supporting the Mukaab project.
This MoU also covers potential future technology needs across the wider New Murabba downtown development.
This followed NMDC’s signing of an MoU with South Korea’s Heerim Architects & Planners in July to explore additional design work for assets within the 14-square-kilometre New Murabba downtown project.
In July, NMDC signed an MoU with another South Korean firm, Naver Cloud Corporation, to explore technological solutions for delivering the New Murabba downtown project.
Also in July, NMDC announced the completion of excavation works for the Mukaab, the centrepiece of the overall development.
Downtown destination
The New Murabba destination will have a total floor area of more than 25 million sq m and will feature more than 104,000 residential units, 9,000 hotel rooms and over 980,000 sq m of retail space.
The scheme will include 1.4 million sq m of office space, 620,000 sq m of leisure facilities and 1.8 million sq m of space dedicated to community facilities.
The project will be developed around the concept of sustainability and will include green spaces and walking and cycling paths to promote active lifestyles and community activities.
The living, working and entertainment facilities will be developed within a 15-minute walking radius. The area will use an internal transport system and will be about a 20-minute drive from the airport.
The downtown area will feature a museum; a technology and design university; an immersive, multipurpose theatre; and more than 80 entertainment and cultural venues.
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Read the November 2025 MEED Business Review Administrator30 October 2025
Download / Subscribe / 14-day trial access The GCC is projected to add at least 80 million tonnes a year (t/y) of liquefied natural gas (LNG) capacity by 2030, placing it firmly among the world’s top three producing regions.
With soaring global demand for the super-chilled fuel, and regional producers committing tens of billions of dollars to significantly ramp up output, MEED’s latest issue focuses on the outlook for the Gulf’s LNG sector as it enters a new, prolific phase. Beyond the Gulf, MEED finds other regional countries also investing in building LNG import infrastructure, driven by a need to increase the share of gas in their energy mixes.
This month’s market focus covers the UAE, where physical and digital infrastructure projects are building a connected economy of the future. The UAE is demonstrating, once again, that strategic investment remains the cornerstone of its national progress.
MEED’s latest issue also includes a report on the Gulf's project finance market, which is continuing to attract strong interest from local and international lenders. Iraq, meanwhile, is revealed as the leader in non-GCC project finance activity.
This issue is bursting with analysis. The team looks at Abu Dhabi’s latest move to position itself at the forefront of the global transition to low-carbon heavy industry; examines the way in which Riyadh-based Digital Cooperation Organisation is using data to define and measure the digital economy; and asks if Saudi Arabia’s housing boom is leaving its citizens behind.
MEED and Saudi Arabia’s National Centre for Privatisation & PPP also showcase the scale and variety of opportunities available in the kingdom’s $190bn pipeline of public‑private partnership projects.
We hope our valued subscribers enjoy the November 2025 issue of MEED Business Review.
Must-read sections in the November 2025 issue of MEED Business Review include:
> AGENDA:
> Gulf LNG sector enters a new prolific phase
> Mena LNG infrastructure spending risesINDUSTRY REPORT:
PROJECT FINANCE
> Region sees evolving project finance demand
> Iraq leads non-GCC project finance activity> PPPs: NCP showcases private sector project opportunities in Saudi Arabia
> GREEN STEEL: Abu Dhabi takes the lead in green steel transition
> DIGITISATION: Riyadh-based organisation drives digital growth
> LEADERSHIP: Saudi Arabia’s housing boom risks leaving citizens behind
> UAE MARKET REPORT:
> COMMENT: Investment shapes UAE growth story
> GOVERNMENT: Public spending ties the UAE closer together
> ECONOMY: UAE growth expansion beats expectations
> BANKING: Stability is the watchword for UAE lenders
> OIL & GAS: Adnoc strives to build long-term upstream potential
> PETROCHEMICALS: Taziz fulfils Abu Dhabi’s chemical ambitions at pace
> POWER: UAE power sector hits record $8.9bn in contracts
> WATER: Tunnel projects set pace for UAE water sector
> CONSTRUCTION: UAE construction faces delivery pressures
> TRANSPORT: $70bn infrastructure schemes underpin UAE economic expansion
> DATABANK: UAE growth exceeds predictions> MEED COMMENTS:
> Neom omitted from Saudi pre-budget statement
> Qiddiya high-speed rail PPP is a bold but risky move
> Wood leadership change holds promise for future
> Power market reshapes contractor landscape> GULF PROJECTS INDEX: Gulf projects market leaders return to fore
> SEPTEMBER 2025 CONTRACTS: Qatar leads awards as regional activity slows
> ECONOMIC DATA: October 2025: Data drives regional projects
> OPINION: Peace mission impossible
> BUSINESS OUTLOOK: Finance, oil and gas, construction, power and water contracts
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