Oman’s real estate sales surged 22.7% y-o-y in 2Q 2026 to OMR 316.9 mn, with one project doing most of the heavy lifting, directly and indirectly. Sultan Haitham City, the national flagship smart-city ...

The gas shortage didn't disappear — domestic production was falling just as electricity demand climbed, while the war was disrupting the region's usual energy routes. What changed was Egypt's ability ...

Gulf oil producers are running elaborate, expensive workarounds to keep crude moving — Aramco is studying new corridors and stashing barrels overseas, while Iraq is discounting steeply to move its own ...

Sabotage cuts Syria’s gas to power plants again, as Damascus builds a fuel transit business for Iraq: Syria’s bet on becoming a transit corridor for Gulf and Iraqi energy depends on securing the east.

Egypt has been spreading the cost across time, currencies, and sectors — and it’s running out of places to put it ...

The Dubai operator and Ogun State signed an MoU to build a USD 7 bn deep-sea port and industrial zone big enough to take ships the congested Lagos corridor can't handle. Qatar's Lesha Bank, meanwhile, ...

US forces are set to exit Iraq today after two decades of war amid ongoing regional tension in the Gulf as security analysts see a strategic benefit to Iran’s allies. Pro-Iranian militia groups stand ...

Securing fuel is one part of keeping an energy system running. Getting it to users is another. Once gas, fuel, or electricity enters the ...

Mazut, diesel, and crude are all in the mix. None of them is a substitute, and the turbines decide that, not the reserves ...

The European Commission approved Germany’s Aequita taking sole control of Sabic Europe, finding no competition concerns under its simplified review, clearing the way for the sale to close. It is the ...

The bill deciding who absorbs more than USD 70 bn in crisis losses is now the only thing standing between Beirut and an IMF program. Finance Minister Yassine Jaber says Lebanon hopes to sign a new ...

The Dubai-based operator and Ogun State signed an MoU to build the Gateway Deep Sea Port alongside Blue Marine, a 10k-hectare industrial zone, with the two pegged at more than USD 7 bn in initial ...