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1870 Telegraph line

from London to Calcutta covering

over 11,000 kilometers opens

1901 A technical office is set up in Cairo

1930 Siemens lays air cable for

power transmission

between Cairo and Helwan

1890 Werner von

Siemens retires and transfers

the business to his successors

1960 The Pakistani government awards Siemens Karachi a contract to build a production plant for motors, transformers and switchgears

1971 Siemens builds a sea-water desalination plant in Saudi Arabia

1988 Siemens builds the Suez steam power plant in

Egypt on a turnkey basis

1991 Siemens

receives a major order for the

gas turbine power plant

Jebel Ali “G” in Dubai

2000 Siemens lays the first 132kV transmission lines in Oman, between Madinat Sultan Qaboos and Jahloot

1956 Siemens

inaugurates the construction of

a wide radio network in the

presence of King Saud I

1859 Werner von

Siemens lays the telegraphic

cables of Suez Canal

2010 Siemens Energy Oil and

Gas opens a second headquarter in Abu Dhabi

1976 Siemens receives

orders for high-voltage switchgear

for the Emirate Abu Dhabi and a transformer

substation for the international

airport

2004 In Abu Dhabi Siemens

constructs the Shuweihat combined cycle power plant

on a turnkey basis. At the time of completion it was

the most powerful plant of its kind in the world

2012 Siemens commissions the pipeline control, safety and telecom system for the Strategic Abu Dhabi Crude Oil Pipeline (ADCOP)

2007 Siemens

inaugurates Al Ezzel power

plant, the first IPP in Bahrain. This is the most reliable

power plant providing

electricity to more than 1.2

million habitants in Bahrain

2005 Siemens lands order from the Dubai Airport Expansion to supply low voltage switchgear assemblies. This is the group’s largest contract in the region as well as the largest order for low voltage switchgear assemblies for Siemens globally

2011 Siemens celebrates 110 years in Egypt

1847 Werner von Siemens and Johann Georg Halske start “Telegraphen-Bauanstalt Siemens & Halske“ in Berlin

1866 Werner von Siemens discovers the dynamo-electric principle

1879 Siemens & Halske presents the world’s first electric railway with an external power source

1929 First business contact in Hijaz, today’s Jeddah area

1938 Siemens sends its first export shipment to Saudi Arabia

1972 The Dubai representative office is founded

1968 Siemens constructs Saudi Arabia’s first 110kV high-voltage network in Jeddah

989 The Kuwaiti Ministry of Energy awards a major order for turnkey installation of a load dispatch center

1983 Siemens completes 110kv high-voltage overhead powerline from Mecca to Taif in Saudi Arabia

2002 Siemens acquires the former Westinghouse subsidiary ISCOSA

2006 Siemens completes the

first combined desalinization and

power plant in Pakistan

2008 Siemens builds

IWPP Ras Laffan B power plant in

Qatar. It supplies 11 per

cent of power requirements in

the country

2010 Dubai Electricity and Water Authority wins Dubai Government Excellence Award with Siemens gas turbine efficiency solution “Wet Compression”

2010 Siemens receives a major order from Oman for two turnkey combined cycle power plants, Barka 3 and Sohar 2

1903 Siemens & Halske takes over

“Eletrizitäts-Aktiengesellschaft vorm.

Schukert & Co.“ (in Nuremberg, Germany)

2012 Saudi Electricity

Company awards Siemens

a major order for delivery of

turbines, generators and

service for Qurayyah IPP in

Saudi Arabia. The order

volume is more than 1USD

billion

2012 Siemens commissions first 400kV series reactor station for DEWA, the first time in the Middle East that a series reactor project of this size has been implemented

2009 Siemens strengthens

the power transmission grid of

Dubai with a series of 400kV turnkey

substations

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