On Monday, July 3, the UAE's ADNOC Gas announced the award of contracts worth a total of $1.34 billion to Petrofac Emirates, the National Petroleum Construction Company consortium and CAT International Company Limited, to expand its natural gas pipeline network.

Under the contract, the new natural gas pipeline will increase the length of the existing network from about 3,200 km to more than 3,500 km, and this increase will allow more natural gas to be transported to the Northern Emirates.