Bahrain steps up Somalia aidBahrain’s Royal Charity Organisation has signed an agreement to deliver the first relief aid consignment to famine-stricken Somalia, aiming to help cure 1,000 Somalis suffering from cataract. Secretary-general Dr Mustafa Al Sayyed signed a More… |
Kuwait Oil awards Petrofac $430m contractKuwait Oil Company said on Wednesday it had awarded Petrofac a KD123.3 million ($430.8 million) contract to inject mixed effluent and seawater into 69 wells in northern Kuwait. The project in Sabriyah and Rawdatain oil fields is part of ef More… |
Iraq firm to drill 180 wells in 2010The state-run Iraq Drilling Company plans to drill 180 oil wells in 2010, and will be able to drill more than 250 new wells every year from 2011 onwards, the head of the company said. Thirty of the new wells planned for 2010 will be in nor More… |
Bahrain oil industry to enter golden eraThe Bahrain oil industry is on the threshold of a golden era, Oil and Gas Affairs Minister and National Oil and Gas Authority chairman Dr Abdulhussain Mirza said yesterday. He told delegates at the opening of Eighth Middle East Geoscience More… |








