Middle East

The world’s largest industrial gas complex will be built, owned and operated by Air Products and ACWA Holding, as a joint venture (JV), in Saudi Arabia.

Bestobell Marine, part of the President Engineering Group (PEGL), has received a major new order from Wärtsilä Fuel Gas Handling Division (FGH), to supply the Middle East’s first LNG (liquefied natural gas) fuelled harbour tug.

Siemens, with partner and customer Cengiz Enerji Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S., has completed the combined cycle power plant of Cengiz Enerji Samsun in Turkey two months ahead of the agreed deadline.

Gulf Cryo continues to build its presence in the emerging Turkish market after its recent acquisition of Yaliz Gaz, a leading local industrial gas company with a well-established network in the Marmara region.

While all the talk in Europe is about the scaling down of high Global Warming Potential (GWP) hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), the developing world, which includes China and India, has only just begun a phase out of...

World crude steel production reached 1.662 million tonnes (Mt) for the year 2014, up 1.2% compared to 2013, according to the World Steel Association (worldsteel).

Global ammonia capacity will experience considerable growth in the next three years, increasing from 204.2 million metric tons per year (tpy) in 2013 to 249.4 million tpy by 2018, according to a new report from...

Karbonsan Pressure Vessels strengthens its position in the engineered tank and standard tank manufacture business by expanding its facility in Orhangazi, Bursa, in Turkey.

After the shortages of recent years and dynamics that reached a crescendo in 2013, a situation of both stability and over-supply returned to the helium business in 2014.

RasGas Company Limited won the Excellence in Project Integration Award at the 8th International Petroleum Technology Conference (IPTC) which opened in Kuala Lumpur on 10th December.