VOL. XLIII

No. 48

27-November-2000

QATAR

Frances Alstom Power Wins $152Mn Ras Abu Fontas B Power/Water Expansion Project

Qatar Electricity and Water Company (QEWC) announced on 18 November that it had awarded a $152mn contract to Frances Alstom Power to expand output at Ras Abu Fontas B electricity/desalination plant. Qatars Energy Minister 'Abd Allah al-'Attiyah said the French firm would install and commission three generating plants, to go on stream by the summer of 2002, to increase...