ABU DHABI / wam Abu Dhabi is a leading international partner in addressing climate change, with ‘Noor Abu Dhabi’ as a pillar of the emirate’s sustainability plans to preserve the global ecosystem, said Awaidha Al Marar, Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Department of Energy. Al Marar added that Abu Dhabi’s commitment to implementing the Paris Agreement 2015 and its dedication ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The value of investments of Emirati banks in Saudi Arabia and Egypt increased to AED90.4 billion ($24.6 billion) at the end of the first quarter of 2019, accounting for 15.5 percent of the banks’ total assets invested abroad, worth around AED582 billion in March 2018. According to statistics from the UAE Central Bank, the value of ...

DUBAI / WAM Emirates airline has announced the first arrivals of its double daily A380 services to Muscat. Flights EK 862 and EK 864 were each welcomed with water cannon salutes upon arrival, ushering in the new services to Oman’s capital, Muscat. EK862 departs Dubai at 08:25, arriving in Muscat at 09:40. The return flight, EK 863, departs Muscat at ...

DUBAI / WAM Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry has announced that it has joined more than 450 other chambers of commerce from around the world in signing the Chambers Climate Coalition, a groundbreaking global initiative that aims to take bold and collective climate action. The Coalition, unveiled during the 11th World Chambers Congress in Rio de Janeiro, commits chambers ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The UAE Cabinet, chaired by HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, has approved the sectors and economic activities eligible for up to 100 percent foreign ownership in the UAE. The decision aims to support the growth environment and to reaffirm UAE’s position on ...

Dubai / Emirates Business The non-oil private sector economy in UAE accelerated in the second quarter of the year, according to Emirates NBD Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) survey for June. The headline seasonally adjusted index — a composite indicator designed to give an accurate overview of operating conditions in the non-oil private sector economy — posted 57.7 in June, down ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Al Dhafra Petroleum, a joint venture between the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc), the Korea National Oil Company (KNOC) and GS Energy, and one of Adnoc’s youngest operating companies, announced it has begun producing crude oil from Abu Dhabi’s Haliba field and discovered potential resources in three new fields in its concession area. According to ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The UAE is advancing its stature in the area of global competitiveness in the telecommunications sector, by taking the lead in adopting 5G technology. Etisalat is the first telecommunications operator in the Middle East and North Africa to launch a 5G network investing in the future of connectivity via its infrastructure network, driving innovation and digital ...

Bloomberg Venezuela’s state-owned oil company is taking an unusual step to try and increase production: shut fields. From this month, Petroleos de Venezuela SA will prioritise 13 fields in the Faja, a 55,000 square-kilometer (21,235 square-mile) strip north of the Orinoco River containing heavy crude oil that former president Hugo Chavez turned into the nation’s oil flagship project, according to ...

Bloomberg South Africa is working on a policy to govern the development of oil and gas resources after calls by potential investors to shield the industry from a long-running debate over laws that apply to mining exploration. The finalising of oil legislation has become more urgent since Total SA announced the first significant deep-water oil find off the coast of ...