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  • Water Conservation
    Saudi’s NWC says $693m saved by plugging water leaks

    The company said the savings were made possible by the NWC's application of radar technology, audio devices and the use of helium to monitor leakage for the first time in the Middle East.

  • Iran and China
    Iran and China deepen a ‘blue water’ friendship

    Last month, visitors to Bandar Abbas on Iran’s southern coast gathered to witness a never-seen-before event: two Chinese warships pulling into port. It could be just the start of a budding naval alliance stretching from the Pacific to the Persian Gulf. Iranian and Chinese commanders last week announced plans for greater maritime cooperation. While the details are vague, it clearly touches ambitions on both sides: Expanding the reach of their warships into faraway seas and new ports of call. And, at the same time, giving a jab at the United States and its preeminent naval power.

  • Iraq
    4 ex-Blackwater guards guilty in Nusoor Square shooting

    After marathon deliberations, a federal jury found four ex-Blackwater Worldwide contractors guilty Wednesday in a deadly 2007 mass shooting in Baghdad's Nusoor Square.

  • Water Projects
    Saudi’s NWC begins work on $480m water supply project

    National Water Company (NWC), the biggest water supplier in oil-rich Saudi Arabia, has begun the first phase of a SR1.8 billion ($480 million) project to achieve a sustainable water supply in Riyadh.

  • Water
    Saudi utility to spend $80bn by 2025 to raise water production

    State-run Saudi Saline Water Conversion Corp (SWCC) plans to invest SR300 billion ($80 billion) by 2025 to boost energy-intensive desalinated water production to 8.5 million cubic metres a day, the head of the utility said on Wednesday. SWCC, also Saudi Arabia's second largest power producer, now produces 3.6 million cubic metres per day of desalinated water, Abdulrahman Mohammed al-Ibrahim told reporters.

  • WATER
    Riyadh to get more water next year

    Riyadh currently gets 2.2 million cubic meters of water daily thanks to projects supported by Riyadh Gov. Prince Turki bin Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz, the Saudi Press Agency reported Saturday. “Support has been given to the water and electricity sectors through the use of advanced technology and the adoption of international standards,” the prince said in a statement to the Saudi Press Agency.

  • Energy
    Kurdish Oil Gambit Hits Troubled Waters

    Shortly before midnight, an oil tanker set sail from Turkey's Ceyhan port one day in late May with a historic, $100 million cargo. The tanker, United Leadership, ferried the first major consignment of Kurdish crude into the Mediterranean that night, a million-barrel payload with the potential to shift oil markets and transform the geopolitics of the Middle East. The oil, pumped to Turkey through a newly built...

  • Energy
    Deep-Water Knowledge Will Be Key to Saudi Aramco’s Red Sea Play

    The fast tracking of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s (KSA) first major offshore natural gas fields in the Red Sea heralds the start of a massive new energy programme for the Kingdom, which will ultimately create new commercial opportunities for service companies with deep-water experience.