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Sharjah Electricity and Water Authority (SEWA) is evaluating details of an independent power project (IPP) for Hamriyah power station to be developed under a Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) contract. Sharjah’s utility authority started a bid process towards the end of 2015, for a project to expand and convert Hamriyah power plant from an open-cycle plant to a combined-cycle facility. According to Middle ...

Bee’ah, the UAE’s leading environmental management company, and Masdar, Abu Dhabi’s renewable energy company, have formed Emirates Waste to Energy Company (EWEC), a joint venture that will develop waste-to-energy plants across the Middle East. The two companies signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in January to jointly develop the Middle East’s first waste-to-energy plant in Sharjah. First announced in 2014, ...

Masdar, Abu Dhabi’s renewable energy company, is to build a new 300,000 tonne waste-to-energy plant in partnership with Bee’ah, Sharjah’s integrated environmental and waste management company. The news follows the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Masdar and Bee’ah in 2016 to collaborate in the development of new energy projects. Owned by the government of Abu Dhabi, Masdar ...

Lamprell, a leading provider of fabrication, engineering and contracting services to the energy industry based in Sharjah and listed on the London Stock Exchange (symbol: LAM), has won a landmark US$ 225 million (AED 826.5m) contract from UK wind energy developer ScottishPower Renewables. Under the contract, Lamprell will fabricate up to 60 steel foundation jackets for the energy provider’s flagship East ...

Sharjah National Oil Corporation (SNOC) has announced the launch of a new 500 square kilometre (195 sq. mile) 3D seismic onshore survey to identify potential deep reservoirs of oil and gas. Expected to be completed by the end of 2016, the survey will focus on an area located 40 kilometers southeast of Sharjah city, from Al Soyouh in the north ...

Sharjah-based energy company Dana Gas PJSC (DANA:ADX) started production from Sharjah’s Zora gas field in January, according to an investor presentation from the company. The Zora gas field forms part of the Sharjah Western Offshore Concession and is located in waters off Sharjah and Ajman. The field, which was originally discovered in 1979, has an initial production capacity of about ...

Sharjah-based energy company Dana Gas PJSC (DANA:ADX)  has secured US$100 million (AED 367m) financing for the Zora gas field development project, via its wholly-owned Dana Gas Explorations FZE. The Zora gas field is expected to come on stream during the first half of 2015 with a production capacity of 40 million standard cubic feet per day (mmscfd). The Dana Gas Group is ...

Sharjah-based energy company Dana Gas PJSC (DANA:ADX) has announced a 70% rise in net profits for the second quarter of 2014 totaling US$ 46 million (AED 169 m), citing an increase in production across its projects and higher realised hydrocarbon prices. The company, which is the Middle East’s largest regional private sector natural gas company, reported an increase in average overall production ...

Bee’ah, Sharjah’s award-winning fully integrated environment and waste management company, has awarded a GBP300 million (AED1.8 billion) contract to UK firm Chinook Sciences to build the world’s largest advanced thermal energy-from-waste facility. “There are many technologies and many companies which have used incineration for years,” said Bee’ah’s CEO Khaled Al Huraimel. “Sharjah wants to be a leader in the environmental ...