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The Strategist (blog)
April 24, 2018
According to the Guardian, the more likely option for Saudi Arabia is to fund an army of private contractors and to recruit soldiers from elsewhere, such as Sudan. Though contentious, this wouldn't be the first time that private contractors are used. US contractors and Russian private military corporations areÃâà...
Construction Week Online
April 24, 2018
Italian contractor Saipem posts loss of $2.4m in Q1 2018. by Oscar Rousseau on Apr 24, 2018 ... However, the Milan-based firm, operational in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Oman, posted a decline in revenue and profit for Q1 2018. READ: Saipem scoops $750m EPC contract for Oman refinery project. Year-on-year quarterlyÃâà...
Saudi Gazette
April 22, 2018
He pointed out that the market accounts for nearly 6 percent of the gross domestic product of Saudi Arabia. It employs some 300,000 people, 35,000 of whom are engineers. The sector represents about 20 percent of the total number of establishments registered in the Kingdom with about 4.5 millionÃâà...
Construction Week Online
April 16, 2018
Saudi Arabia is investing in the development of new project categories such as entertainment avenues and solar parks, but are contractors prepared to build the kingdom's future? In the latest episode of Construction Week In Focus, Neha Bhatia, editor of Construction Week, and Oscar Rousseau, deputyÃâà...
Construction Week Online
April 12, 2018
Saudi Arabia is often touted as one of the Gulf's largest construction markets, and the label is not an exaggeration. For example, the kingdom is second only to the UAE in terms of the number of contract awards expected in the region this year. The UAE is expected to account for a third of all constructionÃâà...
The Hill
April 5, 2018
Salman's visit to the United States is ongoing, and he was reportedly set to meet with defense contractor Lockheed Martin this week after meeting with Boeing last week. Arms sales to Saudi Arabia have been controversial in recent years due to mounting civilian causalities in the Yemen civil war. SaudiÃâà...
Arab News
March 27, 2018
A photo taken on January 31, 2017 shows a view of cars driving past a suspended bridge of one of the lines of the Riyadh metro in the Saudi capital. (AFP). Updated 28 March 2018. AFP. March 28, 2018 03:00. 0. Saudi Arabia to compensate contractors for hike in expat fees. Updated 28 March 2018. AFP. March 28, 2018Ãâà...
DefenseNews.com
March 8, 2018
Raytheon will be the prime contractor for each. The proposed sale to Qatar, ... Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt cut ties with Qatar in June, accusing the tiny but super-rich Gulf state of supporting militant groups and cozying up to Shiite, non-Arab Iran — charges Doha denies. The State DepartmentÃâà...
Task & Purpose
March 8, 2018
... trip to the Middle East in 1991, she was a soldier, deployed to Saudi Arabia for Operation Desert Storm. A native of Georgia, she served in the Army for two decades and completed several more overseas tours before retiring in 2003. Then, like many veterans, she kept deploying as a defense contractor.
BQ Live
March 8, 2018
A family-run Middlesbrough has hosted oil and gas leaders from Saudi Arabia days after being crowned the only Teesside winner in the PD Ports ... They recently exported their first PFP unit to Brazil, winning the ̣̉40,000 order with a fabrication contractor ahead of some of the world's biggest manufacturers.
WorldOil
March 8, 2018
ABERDEEN -- Wood has been selected to develop the world's largest fully integrated crude oil to chemicals (COTC) complex in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, on behalf of Saudi Aramco and SABIC as the first PMC contractor. The company will provide front end engineering design (pre-FEED and FEED)Ãâà...
Energy Business Review
March 6, 2018
The acquisition is expected to position KCAD as one of the world's premier international drilling and engineering contractor. KCA Deutag said that the acquisition strengthens its core Middle Eastern operations in addition to creating a platform to capture growth opportunities in major markets. AdditionallyÃâà...
LobeLog
February 21, 2018
The crown prince's development plan for Saudi Arabia—called Vision 2030—is intended to transform the Saudi economy away from almost total ... Imagine a major US defense contractor who has been working inside the Saudi National Guard (SANG) for the past 35 years suddenly discovering that theÃâà...
OilPrice.com
February 15, 2018
Saudi Arabia and Russia may finalize an agreement on the Arctic LNG 2 project in June this year or earlier, Energy Minister Alexander Novak said at the ... One target was Russia's biggest drilling contractor, Eurasia Drilling, and the other was natural gas independent Novatek, the company behind ArcticÃâà...
Saudi Gazette
December 31, 1999
AL-BAHA — Construction of a hotel financed by Al-Baha University Higher Education Fund has not been completed because the contractor took the money and ran ... Many wonder why the Ministry of Education did not take an action then and why it did not assign another contractor to complete the works.
The Guardian
December 31, 1999
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are bogged down in a brutal war in Yemen, and have little manpower and few military resources to spare. ... Erik Prince, a Trump ally who founded the military contractor Blackwater USA and now advises the UAE, is lobbying to play a role, according to the WallÃâà...
The Hill
December 31, 1999
There is already concrete evidence that human rights are taking a back seat to commercial concerns and a desire to curry favor with questionable allies. Early on, the Trump administration reversed human rights-based suspensions of sales to Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Nigeria that had been imposedÃâà...
