Bahrain

Bahrain has raised $3bn in a three-tranche international bond issue which was met with strong market appetite with order books...

GE Energy Financial Services has helped Aluminium Bahrain (Alba) secure two loans totalling $670mn to fund a 1.79GW combined cycle...

Bahrain is pressing ahead with plans to join the GCC’s increasingly dynamic LNG importers club. Having tied up financing, it hopes for early-2019 start-up of its 800mn cfd terminal, just before a key industrial project is set to boost demand.

Bahrain state oil firm Bapco has received four bids for an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract to expand the...

The sustained low oil price has served as a wake-up call to GCC governments that fiscal consolidation is urgently needed. Subsidy cuts are already taking effect but many other reforms will be necessary in the coming years. Will the appetite for reform withstand any oil price gains?

The US’ Occidentals’ successful divestment of non-core MENA assets over the past year is enabling the firm to focus its...

Bahraini aluminum producer Alba has awarded an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract to US conglomerate General Electric and Turkish...

Bahrain’s state firm Bapco has reportedly invited bids for the expansion and upgrading of its Sitra refinery. The project involves...

Bahrain’s new oil minister is faced with the withdrawal of the foreign partners at the country’s only operated oilfield.