Home / Bahrain / Energy / Saudi Arabia The 350,000-barrel per day oil link between the two countries is expected to be commissioned by the third quarter of 2016 Saudi Arabia and Bahrain have approved plans to lay a 350,000-barrel per day (bpd) oil pipeline between the two countries, with the link expected to be commissioned by the third quarter of 2016, Bahrain Petroleum Co. (BAPCO) said on Wednesday. The pipeline will replace an ageing 230,000 bpd link and will help Bapco expand Read more [...]

Bahrain'sTelecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) today allocated the necessary spectrum to the current holders of IMTL licences in order to enable them to provide Long Term Evolution (LTE) services.   LTE promises to breathe new life into the kingdom's telecommunications sector, TRA said as its chairman Dr Mohammed Al Amer handed over new frequency licences to the CEOs of Batelco, Zain and Viva at the TRA headquarters.    Dr Al Amer hailed the initiatives of the mobile Read more [...]

Dubai: A Bahrain court on Thursday jailed five people for up to 10 years for attacking a government building with petrol bombs, a judicial source said. Three defendants were sentenced to 10 years in prison, and two others were jailed for three years over the attack on Dar Al Hukumah, the source said. Two others were acquitted. Prosecutors accused the group of -attempting to kill security men by throwing petrol bombs at them,- according to the list of charges. They were also accused of -igniting Read more [...]

Manama: Officials of government radio stations in the Arab Gulf countries support Bahrains initiative to launch -This is the Arabian Gulf- Radio Station in October this year, contributing to common GCC action, a Kuwaiti official said Tuesday, according to the Kuwaiti news agency Kuna. Yusuf Mustafa, Information Ministrys Assistant Undersecretary for Radio Affairs, said the new radio station would contribute to preserving traditions, culture, art and literature of the six countries of the Gulf Cooperation Read more [...]

MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — Bahrain's main Shiite opposition group is defying a ban by the island's Sunni government to have direct contacts with foreign diplomats.Al Wefaq's secretary-general, Sheik Ali Salman, met Norwegian political affairs envoy Hakon Smedsvig on Thursday in the Bahraini capital, Manama.Bahrain's Western-backed monarchy earlier this month banned all diplomatic contacts by political groups unless they receive official permission. The move was sharply criticized by Read more [...]