ABU DHABI / WAM The 2017 non-oil gross domestic product grew 2.9 percent, while the oil real GDP growth was up 1.5 percent, with the country’s real GDP hitting 1.5 percent, according to a UAE Central Bank report that forecast the UAE GDP growth to amount up to 2.5 percent in 2018 and 2.8 percent in 2019. Government spending over ...

LONDON / WAM UAE-based Petrofac, a leading service provider to the oil and gas production and processing industry, on Wednesday announced that it has been awarded a contract by Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited, HPCL, for its Sulphur Recovery Unit (SRU) Block Package for the Visakh Refinery Modernisation Project at Visakhapatnam in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The lump-sum EPC ...

LONDON / Reuters Compliance with a global deal to cut oil supply hit a new high in February, a joint OPEC and non-OPEC committee estimated, suggesting a rise in the price of crude has not weakened commitment. Producers in the pact achieved 138 percent of pledged output reductions last month, OPEC said in a statement, a record since the deal ...