Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) has awarded the Shaw Group a new contract to implement a fleetwide services programme for all of the state utility?s oil and gas-fired power plants in Saudi Arabia
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Nuclear research reactor to be built in Jordan

JAEC is in the process of licensing the reactor that will be operational by 2016. (Image source: arabiangazette.com)
The Korean Atomic Energy Research Institute will collaborate with Daewoo on the construction of a 5MW nuclear research reactor in Ramtha, Jordan
TAQA to receive US$1.4 billion for Morocco power plant expansion
Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (TAQA) has signed a US$1.4 billion financing deal to expand its coal-fired power plant in Morocco
SEC awards new substations contracts to ABB
ABB has won orders worth more than US$30 million to design, supply, install and commission two substations for Saudi Electricity Company (SEC)
Jordan completes deal for oil shale-fired power plant
Jordan?s ministry of energy and mineral resources has reached an agreement with Estonian-Malaysian consortium Enefit to develop a 460 MW oil shale-fired power plant in the country