VOL. XXXIX

No. 19

5-February-1996

UAE

Japanese Companies Win $295Mn Power Contract

The Dubai Electricity and Water Authority announced on 31 January the award of a Dh1.08bn ($295mn) contract to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Mitsubishi Corp. of Japan for building a 600 megawatt gas turbine power plant in al- 'Awir, some 25 kms. from the city of Dubai. The plant will consist of six gas turbines and a new 400-kilovolt substation, and the work also covers the extension and modification...