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SinoHydro Mao'ergai Hydropower Development Company Limited (Sichuan, China), a subsidiary of SinoHydro Corporation (Beijing), has signed a syndicated loan agreement for the Mao'ergai Hydropower Station, SinoHydro announced on December 29. The station, located in Sichuan province's Heishui County, is the largest hydropower project in the Tibetan Region to be built and invested by SinoHydro Mao'ergai. As an important reconstruction project after the magnitude-7.8 earthquake in May, the $1 billion project is scheduled to begin operation in the end of 2011.

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In view of the prevalent unfavorable market conditions, state-owned Qatar Petroleum (Doha, Qatar) has delayed the tendering process of key contracts for its proposed Al Shaheen refinery at the Mesaieed Industrial City in Qatar by about six months. The firm is currently in the process of reviewing the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) rates for the $5 billion refinery project. The refinery, which was originally scheduled to go on stream by the first quarter of 2012, is now slated for commissioning in 2013.