Yokogawa Electric Corporation and CiDRA Corporate Services have entered into a distributor agreement to sell latter’s SONARtrac® range of flowmeters in the Middle East – Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Egypt, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar, besides the Asian markets

Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Ma’aden) has begun commercial output at the Ad Duwayhi gold mine in western region of the Kingdom

Rwanda-based Tri Metals Mining Limited, subsidiary of Oman’s Mawarid Mining LLC, has signed three large-scale mining agreements with the Rwandan government to undertake mining operations at Bisesero in Karongi District

Oman’s State General Reserve Fund (SGRF), along with other state and private investors, plan to establish a mining venture

Qatar Primary Materials Company (QPMC) has signed four agreements for the supply of 19,980,000 tonnes of high quality aggregates – gabbro and limestone – over the next three years from various sources