Dubai, UAE, July 15, 2006: Dodsal, an engineering, procurement & construction multinational and an infrastructure developer with its corporate headquarters in Dubai, UAE has been awarded approx. AED 650 Million (Six hundred fifty Million) or approx. US$178 Million contract by Nakheel to execute complete Infrastructure works for Contract 2  at the Jumeriah Village South III - Circle Project. The project includes approx. 50 km. of Asphalt Road works, providing for District Cooling Network, Power & Telecommunication Network including broad band, Water Distribution, Sewage & Sewerage, Fire and Irrigation works. The contract duration for this project is 18 months.  The project site is located between Emirates Road, Al Barsha Road and Al Khail Road.

Dubai based Limitless LLC are employed as Development Manager on behalf of Nakheel. Canadian firm EllisDon are engaged as Project Managers for the development, with British firm Mouchel Parkman employed as the Consulting Engineers.

In addition Dodsal is also executing Nakheel's US$ 100 Million, Mesoamerican project comprising of 27 numbers multi-storied residential buildings, with a total built-up area of 1.94 Million sq.ft.

This project brings Dodsal's current order book in excess of US$ 2 billion.  Some of the other projects being executed are: QP - Ras Laffan Common Cooling Seawater System Phase II (US$ 1 Billion), Takreer - Inter Refinery Pipeline Project (US$ 400 Million), Nakheel - Mesoamerican Project (US$ 100 Million), Rasgas - LNG project for JV of Chiyoda / Technip for construction work on the 7.8 MMTPA super LNG trains (US$ 200 Million).

Dodsal group, over the last 55 years, has transformed into a diversified trans global corporation with range of activities in the Energy, Infrastructure and Transportation sector where it undertakes projects mentioned in the above sectors either on EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) or large scale construction basis. The Dodsal group, is structured in four business lines namely Engineering, Procurement & Construction (EPC), Exploration & Development, Trading and Quick Service Restaurants.

The Energy sector of the company covers all types of onshore oil and gas facilities being gas gathering, separation, injection plants, LNG plants, GTL plants, refineries, petrochemical complexes, fertilizers, cross country pipelines, nuclear, gas and coal based power plants, metallurgical plants etc. 

The Infrastructure & Transportation sector of Dodsal covers highways and bridges, residential complexes, hotels and resorts.

Dodsal is also aggressively pursuing to finance, build and operate Infrastructure Projects for power plants, airports, Oil & Gas Pipeline and City Gas Distribution Projects in North Africa, Middle East and India.

The Group recently has entered into exploration and development of oil and gas fields and has already secured concessions for the same in Africa and pursing similar opportunities in the Middle East.

For all the above business, Dodsal has committed highest standard of quality and safety at the work place with a sense of corporate social responsibility. Dodsal is accredited with all certifications of ISO viz. ISO 9001:2000, ISO 14001:2004 and OHSAS 18001:1999.

By 2010 Dodsal expects revenues from its Engineering and Construction business to touch approx. US$ 3.5 billion.  Revenues from Infrastructure, Trading and Quick Service Restaurants are expected to be approx. US$ 1.5 billion, taking the group's total revenues to US$ 5 billion by 2010.  This excludes revenues from oil exploration and drilling business.

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