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Dolphin Energy Sponsors Regional Coral Project By World Wide Fund For Nature And Abu Dhabi's Erwda
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Three-Year, $500,000 Program alongside Abu Dhabi and Qatar Environment Bodies
Dolphin Energy Limited today announced a $500,000 sponsorship agreement with the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) and the Abu Dhabi Environmental Research & Wildlife Development Agency (ERWDA) for research and protection of major Coral Habitats in Abu Dhabi and Qatar.
Ahmed Ali Al Sayegh (left), CEO of Dolphin Energy Limited, during the signing ceremony with Dr Georg Schwede, Conservation Director for Europe & Middle East Programme for WWF International.
Ahmed Ali Al Sayegh, CEO of Dolphin Energy, signed the agreement with Dr Georg Schwede, Conservation Director of the Europe/Middle East program for WWF International
This three year WWF/ERWDA project will run from 2004 through 2006, in association with Qatar’s Supreme Council for the Environment and Nature Reserves (SCENR). The results will include a world class study – ‘Conservation of Coral Reef Habitats of the Arabian Gulf’ – and the first comprehensive coral conservation plan for the region.
Dolphin’s sponsorship will help the WWF to investigate the diversity and condition of all representative Abu Dhabi and Qatari corals, to identify and document coral species – and to qualify their abundance and status. It will also assist them in assessing the potential for recovery of degraded coral reef habitats.
Following conclusion of the research, the WWF will publish a Gulf coral atlas and identification guide, plus supporting strategy documents.
After the signing, Mr Al Sayegh said: ”Dolphin is very pleased to be working so closely with ERWDA, SCENR and WWF on this initiative.”
He emphasized: “In bringing Qatari gas by pipeline to the UAE in 2006, the Dolphin Gas Project is not only developing cross-border energy initiatives. Our project is also a catalyst for cross-border scientific, socio-economic and environmental cooperation studies of vital interest to both Qatar and the UAE.”
Majid Al Mansoori, Secretary General of ERWDA, added: “ERWDA is delighted with this sponsorship, and looks forward to working closely with both Dolphin and WWF to achieve quality results of long-term benefit.”
For WWF, Dr Schwede added: “We greatly appreciate Dolphin’s support for this most important environmental study. Practical use can, and will, be made of the results as they are gathered.”
Dolphin Energy Limited
Dolphin Energy Limited was created to develop substantial energy projects throughout the GCC. Its objective is to create long-term economic wealth and new business opportunities for GCC citizens, far into the future. Dolphin Energy’s major strategic initiative, the Dolphin Project, involves the production and processing of natural gas from Qatar’s North Field, and transportation of the dry gas by sub-sea pipeline across joint UAE-Qatari waters to the UAE, beginning in 2006.
Dolphin Energy’s first initiative, the Al Ain to Fujairah Pipeline, came on stream in January 2004.The pipeline supplies the Fujairah Water and Power Plant on the UAE’s East Coast – initially with natural gas from Oman, and subsequently with Dolphin gas from Qatar. In May 2005, Dolphin began to supply natural gas to the UAE Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah. The gas is being delivered via a tie-in near Qidfa between Dolphin’s Al Ain - Fujairah pipeline and the existing Emarat gas pipeline network.
Dolphin Energy is owned 51 percent by Mubadala Development Company, on behalf of the Government of Abu Dhabi – and 24.5 percent each by Total of France and Occidental Petroleum of the USA.
Detailed information about Dolphin Energy can be found on www.dolphinenergy.com
For further information contact:
Mirna Hijazi
Corporate Communications Manager
Tel +971 2 6995500
Fax +971 2 6995578