DUBAI (Reuters) - Kuwaiti authorities said on Tuesday they were battling a new crude oil spill in the Abu Fatira area, a day after containing an initial leak that contaminated southern waters. A statement carried by state news agency KUNA said the new oil leak was a nautical mile long. …
Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries are set to spend around $54 billion in the near future to increase the capacity of their electricity networks by 32,000 MW, a new report has said. The report issued by the Kuwait Financial Centre (Markaz) indicates that the GCC states — namely Oman, Qatar, …
ONGC Videsh Ltd, the overseas arm of state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC), may invest over $1.5 billion in exploring for oil in a block that was awarded to it by the erstwhile Saddam Hussein regime. "We are nearing finality on the contract for Block-8. It is likely to …
President Asif Ali Zardari on Sunday urged the Kuwaiti financial and investment giants to help Pakistan overcome its energy shortages through financing and investments in major energy and infrastructure projects. The president was talking to Director General of Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED) Abdulwahab Ahmad Al-Bader and Chief …
Kuwait firm evinced interest in partnering ONGC in bidding for blocks to be offe- red for exploration of oil and gas. Oil and Natural Gas Corp on Tuesday offered Kuwaiti national oil firm a stake in its `19,500-crore mega petrochemical project in Gujarat, even as the oil-rich Gulf nation expressed …
The Arab world will be one of the regions worst hit by climate change but still lacks any coordinated response to its potentially devastating effects, experts said at a conference this week. With hotter, drier and less predictable climates, the amount of water running into the region's streams and rivers …
The drab and dull climate meetings in Bonn finally saw some sparks of excitement on Thursday when the grouping of small island states sparred with oil producing nations led by Saudi Arabia over the need to have a scientific evaluation done on options for restricting the global rise in temperatures …
Making a point-by-point rebuttal of allegations of financial impropriety against its director general R K Pachauri, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) on Wednesday said the charges published in London
The Kuwait government has agreed to provide US$ 42 million for the Moragahakanda project, Agriculture Development Minister Maithripala Sirisena said. The minister added Saudi Arabia, OPEC and JAICA had also pledged financial assistance to this mega irrigation scheme. He said two main reservoirs would be constructed under this project, and …
Maulik Pathak / Ahmedabad April 02, 2009, 0:06 IST Bids for a $3 bn project to clean oil spill left in Kuwait from the 1991 Gulf War. Having decided to join the race for a $3-billion project to clean a huge oil spill in Kuwait from the 1991 Gulf War, …
The Kuwait government is to finance the Kalu Ganga Development Project which aims to develop and inject into the Mahaweli irrigation systems the untapped water resources of Kalu Ganga. President Mahinda Rajapaksa as Minister of Finance and Planning is to enter into an agreement with the Kuwait Fund for Arab …
Rising oil prices is forcing Gulf states to invest in gas production. Some analysts estimate that the cumulative supply shortfall for the six countries of the Gulf Co-operation Council up to 2015 will reach at least 7,000bn cubic feet. To put the number into perspective, according to BP the UK's …
More than a decade after cessation of hostilities, the Gulf region continues to reel under the ravages of war. Kuwait recently revealed that oil well fires ignited by Iraqi troops in the 1991 war and measures taken to extinguish them had caused greater environmental damage than previously thought. Submitting a …
THE IRRITABLE HEART: THE MEDICAL MYSTERY OF THE GULF WAR Jeff Wheelwright . W W Norton & Company . New York . 2001 . 427 pages Bill is 46 and a military veteran in the United States. In February 1991, during the Persian Gulf War, he was based north of …
at least 1,000 tonnes of fish were recently found dead near the shores of Kuwait. Following the incident, the government has imposed a ban on fishing, though the cause of the deaths is still not known. A committee set up by the government to examine the issue has failed to …
kuwait's leading fish farm has trashed 51 tonnes of dead fish. Probably a poison scare prompted the firm to do so. However, government officials said the poison scare sweeping the emirate was no cause for alarm and the situation was well under control. The 180,000 fish identified as Bolti, were …
Iraq is facing lawsuits claiming billions of dollars in compensation by Kuwait and its allies including the US, for environmental damage caused during the Gulf War. Iraqi troops are alleged to have unloaded millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf waters in January 1991 and set fire to more …
THE WORLD Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has gone on record officially that oilwell fires in Kuwait have had no global effect on the atmosphere. At WMO's recent meeting in Geneva with representatives of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) scientific papers were presented that showed the massive amounts of carbon and other …
$11.8 million project to deploy Honeywell Experion PKS technology to control and monitor water treatment BANGALORE, India, April 9, 2013 – Honeywell ( NYSE:HON ) today announced that it has been selected by Kuwait’s Ministry of Electricity and Water to modernize the water distribution network that supplies more than 280 …
