Qatar Petroleum International (QPI) has announced that it will invest US$3.61bn to build an oil refinery in Egypt in partnership with Orient Company and the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC)

Drake & Scull International (DSI) has been awarded, in collaboration with SICIM SpA of Italy, a US$358.8mn engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for pipeline installation at the Zubair Oil Field in Iraq

The Iraq General Commission of Free Zones and Basra International Oil and Gas Hub (BIOGH) have formed a joint venture to create a specialised oil and gas free zone at Khor Al-Zubair, Basra

Smit Lamnalco has been awarded a turnkey US$35 million contract by Petrofac to support single point mooring operations for the Iraq Crude Oil Export Expansion Project (ICOEEP)