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Akshay Kumar on the lessons he learnt during the pandemic: ‘Covid-19 spared no one’


With regards to turning real-life tales into field workplace money-spinners, no Bollywood star has a greater monitor file than Akshay Kumar.

From 2016’s Airlift, a couple of businessman who helped evacuate Indians stranded throughout the 1990 invasion of Kuwait, to Pad Man, the 2018 comedy in regards to the inspiring story of a person who invented a machine to make low-cost sanitary pads for girls, Kumar is thought for bringing little-known tales into mainstream popular culture.

In flip, he’s reaped main successes alongside the way in which. His 2019 movie Mission Mangal, as an illustration, a couple of group of scientists who put collectively India’s first interplanetary house probe, made greater than 2.9 billion rupees (roughly $39 million) globally. It was additionally one of many highest-grossing movies in India that 12 months.

Kumar, 53, is again to kind along with his newest movie Bell Backside, out now within the UAE, a couple of group of spies tasked with foiling an lively hijacking within the 1980s.

“I completely love espionage thrillers, particularly these based mostly on real-life occasions, and Bell Backside was simply that,” he tells The Nationwide. “It was an unknown story ready to be informed, impressed by true occasions from the 1980s – an period notorious for a number of [plane] hijackings.”

Kumar says he instantly accepted the position when director Ranjit M Tewari (Lucknow Central, 2017) and author Aseem Arora approached him with the script in 2019.

Bell Backside is a unprecedented story from begin to end. How are you going to not wish to make one thing so thrilling?

“The film transports you again to the previous and unwraps some of the extraordinary tales of intelligence, espionage and motion involving [an] agent and the way he formulates India’s first covert operation. It doesn’t get any higher than that,” he says. “Additionally, it’s bought nice music and phenomenal style and swagger.”

The movie’s title is the code identify of its lead character, performed by Kumar, who heads a crew of brokers from RAW, or the Analysis and Evaluation Wing, India’s exterior intelligence company. Actress and former Miss Universe Lara Dutta additionally stars within the movie as former prime minister Indira Gandhi.

One of many first main films to get a cinema launch after India’s lethal second wave of the coronavirus, Kumar says he’s glad the movie has been comparatively on schedule, regardless of lacking its preliminary January 2021 launch date.

Shot extensively in Glasgow and different elements of Scotland, Bell Backside was one of many few movies nonetheless in manufacturing throughout the lockdowns in 2020.

“A couple of month and a half into the pandemic and the lockdown, I used to be stressed because it was the longest I had been away from going through a digicam. I used to be in dialog with Vashu [Bhagnani, producer], who was then within the UK. And whereas talking to him, I urged we shoot the movie overseas in a bio-bubble, and inside seconds he agreed,” Kumar recollects.

“It was actually a distinct expertise for positive. Whereas we’re used to filming with lots of of individuals on a set, we solely had the naked minimal essential to function, we caught to our resort rooms and everybody adopted strict Covid-19 protocols.

“General, I’m completely happy we might lastly movie and I used to be actually grateful to lastly hear ‘lights, digicam, motion’ after such a very long time.”

Deepshikha Deshmukh of Pooja Leisure, producers or Bell Backside, says the motive was “to convey pleasure to the tens of millions of followers who’ve had a tough 12 months and a half with the lockdown, and importantly help the tens of hundreds of cinema trade members together with theatres, exhibitors and distributors”.

“We have been conscious of the dangers we have been taking to movie a manufacturing amid the primary wave of the pandemic and now, very conscious of the danger to launch the movie theatrically throughout the pandemic,” she says.

“Somebody needed to begin and we hope that with Bell Backside we are able to convey hope and optimism for the trade.”

Kumar, whose breakthrough Bollywood movie Khiladi was launched in 1992, is one the highest-paid actors within the nation. He and his spouse, former actress Twinkle Khanna, additionally run a movie manufacturing firm referred to as Hari Om Leisure. The couple, together with lots of their Bollywood colleagues, have been identified for stepping up and lending a hand to these in want throughout India’s lockdown.

Kumar says the pandemic has modified him in some ways and reminded him of his privileges.

“The lockdowns compelled you to take a step again and take inventory of the which means and worth of life and what we actually have to focus our time, consideration and vitality on,” he says. “Covid-19 spared nobody, in no matter form and kind it touched our lives. It has no look after the color of your pores and skin or your social standing or gender.”

A prolific actor identified for his versatility, Kumar has two different movies prepared for launch. Prithviraj, a historic movie about king Prithviraj Chauhan, who dominated north-west India within the 1100s, is about to be launched in November. The movie will even mark the Bollywood debut of Miss World 2017 Manushi Chhillar.

Then there’s Sooryavanshi with director Rohit Shetty, identified for his bombastic movies with larger-than-life characters. The action-comedy, which was imagined to be launched final 12 months, doesn’t have a brand new date but.

“I’m excited for the discharge of each movies: Sooryavanshi is an action-packed tremendous cop saga and Prithviraj is a interval drama. I’ve additionally just lately accomplished the schedules for Bachchan Pandey and Raksha Bandhan as nicely,” he says.

“I’ve simply began a brand new movie, which I’m filming within the UK, and upon its completion I plan to go for a start-to-finish schedule of Ram Setu round mid-October. And as quickly as that’s over, I’ll leap into OMG 2, which is able to once more be a start-to-finish schedule.”

At this stage in his profession, Kumar says there aren’t any roles he gained’t do.

“There are numerous methods a task may very well be carried out. It additionally will depend on the context at giant. So if the position and context works, there’s all the time a purpose to contemplate it,” he says. “The one purpose I gained’t contemplate a task is that if I don’t see myself in it.”

Bell Backside is now displaying within the UAE

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Engine: six-litre W12 twin-turbo

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Engine: six-litre W12 twin-turbo

Transmission: eight-speed twin clutch auto

Energy: 626bhp

Torque: 900Nm

Worth: Dh940,160 (plus VAT)

On sale: Q1 2020

THE SPECS

Engine: six-litre W12 twin-turbo

Transmission: eight-speed twin clutch auto

Energy: 626bhp

Torque: 900Nm

Worth: Dh940,160 (plus VAT)

On sale: Q1 2020

THE SPECS

Engine: six-litre W12 twin-turbo

Transmission: eight-speed twin clutch auto

Energy: 626bhp

Torque: 900Nm

Worth: Dh940,160 (plus VAT)

On sale: Q1 2020

THE SPECS

Engine: six-litre W12 twin-turbo

Transmission: eight-speed twin clutch auto

Energy: 626bhp

Torque: 900Nm

Worth: Dh940,160 (plus VAT)

On sale: Q1 2020

THE SPECS

Engine: six-litre W12 twin-turbo

Transmission: eight-speed twin clutch auto

Energy: 626bhp

Torque: 900Nm

Worth: Dh940,160 (plus VAT)

On sale: Q1 2020

THE SPECS

Engine: six-litre W12 twin-turbo

Transmission: eight-speed twin clutch auto

Energy: 626bhp

Torque: 900Nm

Worth: Dh940,160 (plus VAT)

On sale: Q1 2020

THE SPECS

Engine: six-litre W12 twin-turbo

Transmission: eight-speed twin clutch auto

Energy: 626bhp

Torque: 900Nm

Worth: Dh940,160 (plus VAT)

On sale: Q1 2020

THE SPECS

Engine: six-litre W12 twin-turbo

Transmission: eight-speed twin clutch auto

Energy: 626bhp

Torque: 900Nm

Worth: Dh940,160 (plus VAT)

On sale: Q1 2020

THE SPECS

Engine: six-litre W12 twin-turbo

Transmission: eight-speed twin clutch auto

Energy: 626bhp

Torque: 900Nm

Worth: Dh940,160 (plus VAT)

On sale: Q1 2020

THE SPECS

Engine: six-litre W12 twin-turbo

Transmission: eight-speed twin clutch auto

Energy: 626bhp

Torque: 900Nm

Worth: Dh940,160 (plus VAT)

On sale: Q1 2020

THE SPECS

Engine: six-litre W12 twin-turbo

Transmission: eight-speed twin clutch auto

Energy: 626bhp

Torque: 900Nm

Worth: Dh940,160 (plus VAT)

On sale: Q1 2020

THE SPECS

Engine: six-litre W12 twin-turbo

Transmission: eight-speed twin clutch auto

Energy: 626bhp

Torque: 900Nm

Worth: Dh940,160 (plus VAT)

On sale: Q1 2020

THE SPECS

Engine: six-litre W12 twin-turbo

Transmission: eight-speed twin clutch auto

Energy: 626bhp

Torque: 900Nm

Worth: Dh940,160 (plus VAT)

On sale: Q1 2020

THE SPECS

Engine: six-litre W12 twin-turbo

Transmission: eight-speed twin clutch auto

Energy: 626bhp

Torque: 900Nm

Worth: Dh940,160 (plus VAT)

On sale: Q1 2020

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Dimension: 300 workers

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Founder: Amir Barsoum

Based mostly: Dubai, UAE

Sector: HealthTech / MedTech

Dimension: 300 workers

Funding: $22.6 million (as of September 2018)

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Date began: 2012

Founder: Amir Barsoum

Based mostly: Dubai, UAE

Sector: HealthTech / MedTech

Dimension: 300 workers

Funding: $22.6 million (as of September 2018)

Buyers: Expertise Growth Fund, Silicon Badia, Beco Capital, Vostok New Ventures, Endeavour Catalyst, Crescent Enterprises’ CE-Ventures, Saudi Expertise Ventures and IFC

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Date began: 2012

Founder: Amir Barsoum

Based mostly: Dubai, UAE

Sector: HealthTech / MedTech

Dimension: 300 workers

Funding: $22.6 million (as of September 2018)

Buyers: Expertise Growth Fund, Silicon Badia, Beco Capital, Vostok New Ventures, Endeavour Catalyst, Crescent Enterprises’ CE-Ventures, Saudi Expertise Ventures and IFC

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Date began: 2012

Founder: Amir Barsoum

Based mostly: Dubai, UAE

Sector: HealthTech / MedTech

Dimension: 300 workers

Funding: $22.6 million (as of September 2018)

Buyers: Expertise Growth Fund, Silicon Badia, Beco Capital, Vostok New Ventures, Endeavour Catalyst, Crescent Enterprises’ CE-Ventures, Saudi Expertise Ventures and IFC

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Date began: 2012

Founder: Amir Barsoum

Based mostly: Dubai, UAE

Sector: HealthTech / MedTech

Dimension: 300 workers

Funding: $22.6 million (as of September 2018)

Buyers: Expertise Growth Fund, Silicon Badia, Beco Capital, Vostok New Ventures, Endeavour Catalyst, Crescent Enterprises’ CE-Ventures, Saudi Expertise Ventures and IFC

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Founder: Amir Barsoum

Based mostly: Dubai, UAE

Sector: HealthTech / MedTech

Dimension: 300 workers

Funding: $22.6 million (as of September 2018)

Buyers: Expertise Growth Fund, Silicon Badia, Beco Capital, Vostok New Ventures, Endeavour Catalyst, Crescent Enterprises’ CE-Ventures, Saudi Expertise Ventures and IFC

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Date began: 2012

Founder: Amir Barsoum

Based mostly: Dubai, UAE

Sector: HealthTech / MedTech

Dimension: 300 workers

Funding: $22.6 million (as of September 2018)

Buyers: Expertise Growth Fund, Silicon Badia, Beco Capital, Vostok New Ventures, Endeavour Catalyst, Crescent Enterprises’ CE-Ventures, Saudi Expertise Ventures and IFC

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Founder: Amir Barsoum

Based mostly: Dubai, UAE

Sector: HealthTech / MedTech

Dimension: 300 workers

Funding: $22.6 million (as of September 2018)

Buyers: Expertise Growth Fund, Silicon Badia, Beco Capital, Vostok New Ventures, Endeavour Catalyst, Crescent Enterprises’ CE-Ventures, Saudi Expertise Ventures and IFC

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Founder: Amir Barsoum

Based mostly: Dubai, UAE

Sector: HealthTech / MedTech

Dimension: 300 workers

Funding: $22.6 million (as of September 2018)

Buyers: Expertise Growth Fund, Silicon Badia, Beco Capital, Vostok New Ventures, Endeavour Catalyst, Crescent Enterprises’ CE-Ventures, Saudi Expertise Ventures and IFC

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Founder: Amir Barsoum

Based mostly: Dubai, UAE

Sector: HealthTech / MedTech

Dimension: 300 workers

Funding: $22.6 million (as of September 2018)

Buyers: Expertise Growth Fund, Silicon Badia, Beco Capital, Vostok New Ventures, Endeavour Catalyst, Crescent Enterprises’ CE-Ventures, Saudi Expertise Ventures and IFC

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Founder: Amir Barsoum

Based mostly: Dubai, UAE

Sector: HealthTech / MedTech

Dimension: 300 workers

Funding: $22.6 million (as of September 2018)

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Founder: Amir Barsoum

Based mostly: Dubai, UAE

Sector: HealthTech / MedTech

Dimension: 300 workers

Funding: $22.6 million (as of September 2018)

Buyers: Expertise Growth Fund, Silicon Badia, Beco Capital, Vostok New Ventures, Endeavour Catalyst, Crescent Enterprises’ CE-Ventures, Saudi Expertise Ventures and IFC

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Founder: Amir Barsoum

Based mostly: Dubai, UAE

Sector: HealthTech / MedTech

Dimension: 300 workers

Funding: $22.6 million (as of September 2018)

Buyers: Expertise Growth Fund, Silicon Badia, Beco Capital, Vostok New Ventures, Endeavour Catalyst, Crescent Enterprises’ CE-Ventures, Saudi Expertise Ventures and IFC

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Date began: 2012

Founder: Amir Barsoum

Based mostly: Dubai, UAE

Sector: HealthTech / MedTech

Dimension: 300 workers

Funding: $22.6 million (as of September 2018)

Buyers: Expertise Growth Fund, Silicon Badia, Beco Capital, Vostok New Ventures, Endeavour Catalyst, Crescent Enterprises’ CE-Ventures, Saudi Expertise Ventures and IFC

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Founder: Amir Barsoum

Based mostly: Dubai, UAE

Sector: HealthTech / MedTech

Dimension: 300 workers

Funding: $22.6 million (as of September 2018)

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Ruwais timeline

1971 Abu Dhabi Nationwide Oil Firm established

1980 Ruwais Housing Advanced constructed, positioned 10 kilometres away from industrial vegetation

1982 120,000 bpd capability Ruwais refinery complicated formally inaugurated by the founding father of the UAE Sheikh Zayed

1984 Second part of Ruwais Housing Advanced constructed. At the moment the 7,000-unit complicated homes some 24,000 folks.  

1985 The refinery is expanded with the commissioning of a 27,000 b/d hydro cracker complicated

2009 Plans introduced to construct $1.2 billion fertilizer plant in Ruwais, producing urea

2010 Adnoc awards $10bn contracts for enlargement of Ruwais refinery, to double capability from 415,000 bpd

2014 Ruwais 261-outlet shopping center opens

2014 Manufacturing begins at newly expanded Ruwais refinery, offering jet gasoline and diesel and permitting the UAE to be self-sufficient for petrol provides

2014 Etihad Rail begins transportation of sulphur from Shah and Habshan to Ruwais for export

2017 Aldar Academies to function Adnoc’s colleges together with in Ruwais from September. Eight colleges function in complete inside the housing complicated.

2018 Adnoc proclaims plans to take a position $3.1 billion on upgrading its Ruwais refinery 

2018 NMC Healthcare chosen to handle operations of Ruwais Hospital

2018 Adnoc proclaims new downstream technique at occasion in Abu Dhabi on Could 13

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Ruwais timeline

1971 Abu Dhabi Nationwide Oil Firm established

1980 Ruwais Housing Advanced constructed, positioned 10 kilometres away from industrial vegetation

1982 120,000 bpd capability Ruwais refinery complicated formally inaugurated by the founding father of the UAE Sheikh Zayed

1984 Second part of Ruwais Housing Advanced constructed. At the moment the 7,000-unit complicated homes some 24,000 folks.  

1985 The refinery is expanded with the commissioning of a 27,000 b/d hydro cracker complicated

2009 Plans introduced to construct $1.2 billion fertilizer plant in Ruwais, producing urea

2010 Adnoc awards $10bn contracts for enlargement of Ruwais refinery, to double capability from 415,000 bpd

2014 Ruwais 261-outlet shopping center opens

2014 Manufacturing begins at newly expanded Ruwais refinery, offering jet gasoline and diesel and permitting the UAE to be self-sufficient for petrol provides

2014 Etihad Rail begins transportation of sulphur from Shah and Habshan to Ruwais for export

2017 Aldar Academies to function Adnoc’s colleges together with in Ruwais from September. Eight colleges function in complete inside the housing complicated.

2018 Adnoc proclaims plans to take a position $3.1 billion on upgrading its Ruwais refinery 

2018 NMC Healthcare chosen to handle operations of Ruwais Hospital

2018 Adnoc proclaims new downstream technique at occasion in Abu Dhabi on Could 13

Supply: The Nationwide

Ruwais timeline

1971 Abu Dhabi Nationwide Oil Firm established

1980 Ruwais Housing Advanced constructed, positioned 10 kilometres away from industrial vegetation

1982 120,000 bpd capability Ruwais refinery complicated formally inaugurated by the founding father of the UAE Sheikh Zayed

1984 Second part of Ruwais Housing Advanced constructed. At the moment the 7,000-unit complicated homes some 24,000 folks.  

1985 The refinery is expanded with the commissioning of a 27,000 b/d hydro cracker complicated

2009 Plans introduced to construct $1.2 billion fertilizer plant in Ruwais, producing urea

2010 Adnoc awards $10bn contracts for enlargement of Ruwais refinery, to double capability from 415,000 bpd

2014 Ruwais 261-outlet shopping center opens

2014 Manufacturing begins at newly expanded Ruwais refinery, offering jet gasoline and diesel and permitting the UAE to be self-sufficient for petrol provides

2014 Etihad Rail begins transportation of sulphur from Shah and Habshan to Ruwais for export

2017 Aldar Academies to function Adnoc’s colleges together with in Ruwais from September. Eight colleges function in complete inside the housing complicated.

2018 Adnoc proclaims plans to take a position $3.1 billion on upgrading its Ruwais refinery 

2018 NMC Healthcare chosen to handle operations of Ruwais Hospital

2018 Adnoc proclaims new downstream technique at occasion in Abu Dhabi on Could 13

Supply: The Nationwide

Ruwais timeline

1971 Abu Dhabi Nationwide Oil Firm established

1980 Ruwais Housing Advanced constructed, positioned 10 kilometres away from industrial vegetation

1982 120,000 bpd capability Ruwais refinery complicated formally inaugurated by the founding father of the UAE Sheikh Zayed

1984 Second part of Ruwais Housing Advanced constructed. At the moment the 7,000-unit complicated homes some 24,000 folks.  

1985 The refinery is expanded with the commissioning of a 27,000 b/d hydro cracker complicated

2009 Plans introduced to construct $1.2 billion fertilizer plant in Ruwais, producing urea

2010 Adnoc awards $10bn contracts for enlargement of Ruwais refinery, to double capability from 415,000 bpd

2014 Ruwais 261-outlet shopping center opens

2014 Manufacturing begins at newly expanded Ruwais refinery, offering jet gasoline and diesel and permitting the UAE to be self-sufficient for petrol provides

2014 Etihad Rail begins transportation of sulphur from Shah and Habshan to Ruwais for export

2017 Aldar Academies to function Adnoc’s colleges together with in Ruwais from September. Eight colleges function in complete inside the housing complicated.

2018 Adnoc proclaims plans to take a position $3.1 billion on upgrading its Ruwais refinery 

2018 NMC Healthcare chosen to handle operations of Ruwais Hospital

2018 Adnoc proclaims new downstream technique at occasion in Abu Dhabi on Could 13

Supply: The Nationwide

Ruwais timeline

1971 Abu Dhabi Nationwide Oil Firm established

1980 Ruwais Housing Advanced constructed, positioned 10 kilometres away from industrial vegetation

1982 120,000 bpd capability Ruwais refinery complicated formally inaugurated by the founding father of the UAE Sheikh Zayed

1984 Second part of Ruwais Housing Advanced constructed. At the moment the 7,000-unit complicated homes some 24,000 folks.  

1985 The refinery is expanded with the commissioning of a 27,000 b/d hydro cracker complicated

2009 Plans introduced to construct $1.2 billion fertilizer plant in Ruwais, producing urea

2010 Adnoc awards $10bn contracts for enlargement of Ruwais refinery, to double capability from 415,000 bpd

2014 Ruwais 261-outlet shopping center opens

2014 Manufacturing begins at newly expanded Ruwais refinery, offering jet gasoline and diesel and permitting the UAE to be self-sufficient for petrol provides

2014 Etihad Rail begins transportation of sulphur from Shah and Habshan to Ruwais for export

2017 Aldar Academies to function Adnoc’s colleges together with in Ruwais from September. Eight colleges function in complete inside the housing complicated.

2018 Adnoc proclaims plans to take a position $3.1 billion on upgrading its Ruwais refinery 

2018 NMC Healthcare chosen to handle operations of Ruwais Hospital

2018 Adnoc proclaims new downstream technique at occasion in Abu Dhabi on Could 13

Supply: The Nationwide

Ruwais timeline

1971 Abu Dhabi Nationwide Oil Firm established

1980 Ruwais Housing Advanced constructed, positioned 10 kilometres away from industrial vegetation

1982 120,000 bpd capability Ruwais refinery complicated formally inaugurated by the founding father of the UAE Sheikh Zayed

1984 Second part of Ruwais Housing Advanced constructed. At the moment the 7,000-unit complicated homes some 24,000 folks.  

1985 The refinery is expanded with the commissioning of a 27,000 b/d hydro cracker complicated

2009 Plans introduced to construct $1.2 billion fertilizer plant in Ruwais, producing urea

2010 Adnoc awards $10bn contracts for enlargement of Ruwais refinery, to double capability from 415,000 bpd

2014 Ruwais 261-outlet shopping center opens

2014 Manufacturing begins at newly expanded Ruwais refinery, offering jet gasoline and diesel and permitting the UAE to be self-sufficient for petrol provides

2014 Etihad Rail begins transportation of sulphur from Shah and Habshan to Ruwais for export

2017 Aldar Academies to function Adnoc’s colleges together with in Ruwais from September. Eight colleges function in complete inside the housing complicated.

2018 Adnoc proclaims plans to take a position $3.1 billion on upgrading its Ruwais refinery 

2018 NMC Healthcare chosen to handle operations of Ruwais Hospital

2018 Adnoc proclaims new downstream technique at occasion in Abu Dhabi on Could 13

Supply: The Nationwide

Ruwais timeline

1971 Abu Dhabi Nationwide Oil Firm established

1980 Ruwais Housing Advanced constructed, positioned 10 kilometres away from industrial vegetation

1982 120,000 bpd capability Ruwais refinery complicated formally inaugurated by the founding father of the UAE Sheikh Zayed

1984 Second part of Ruwais Housing Advanced constructed. At the moment the 7,000-unit complicated homes some 24,000 folks.  

1985 The refinery is expanded with the commissioning of a 27,000 b/d hydro cracker complicated

2009 Plans introduced to construct $1.2 billion fertilizer plant in Ruwais, producing urea

2010 Adnoc awards $10bn contracts for enlargement of Ruwais refinery, to double capability from 415,000 bpd

2014 Ruwais 261-outlet shopping center opens

2014 Manufacturing begins at newly expanded Ruwais refinery, offering jet gasoline and diesel and permitting the UAE to be self-sufficient for petrol provides

2014 Etihad Rail begins transportation of sulphur from Shah and Habshan to Ruwais for export

2017 Aldar Academies to function Adnoc’s colleges together with in Ruwais from September. Eight colleges function in complete inside the housing complicated.

2018 Adnoc proclaims plans to take a position $3.1 billion on upgrading its Ruwais refinery 

2018 NMC Healthcare chosen to handle operations of Ruwais Hospital

2018 Adnoc proclaims new downstream technique at occasion in Abu Dhabi on Could 13

Supply: The Nationwide

Ruwais timeline

1971 Abu Dhabi Nationwide Oil Firm established

1980 Ruwais Housing Advanced constructed, positioned 10 kilometres away from industrial vegetation

1982 120,000 bpd capability Ruwais refinery complicated formally inaugurated by the founding father of the UAE Sheikh Zayed

1984 Second part of Ruwais Housing Advanced constructed. At the moment the 7,000-unit complicated homes some 24,000 folks.  

1985 The refinery is expanded with the commissioning of a 27,000 b/d hydro cracker complicated

2009 Plans introduced to construct $1.2 billion fertilizer plant in Ruwais, producing urea

2010 Adnoc awards $10bn contracts for enlargement of Ruwais refinery, to double capability from 415,000 bpd

2014 Ruwais 261-outlet shopping center opens

2014 Manufacturing begins at newly expanded Ruwais refinery, offering jet gasoline and diesel and permitting the UAE to be self-sufficient for petrol provides

2014 Etihad Rail begins transportation of sulphur from Shah and Habshan to Ruwais for export

2017 Aldar Academies to function Adnoc’s colleges together with in Ruwais from September. Eight colleges function in complete inside the housing complicated.

2018 Adnoc proclaims plans to take a position $3.1 billion on upgrading its Ruwais refinery 

2018 NMC Healthcare chosen to handle operations of Ruwais Hospital

2018 Adnoc proclaims new downstream technique at occasion in Abu Dhabi on Could 13

Supply: The Nationwide

Ruwais timeline

1971 Abu Dhabi Nationwide Oil Firm established

1980 Ruwais Housing Advanced constructed, positioned 10 kilometres away from industrial vegetation

1982 120,000 bpd capability Ruwais refinery complicated formally inaugurated by the founding father of the UAE Sheikh Zayed

1984 Second part of Ruwais Housing Advanced constructed. At the moment the 7,000-unit complicated homes some 24,000 folks.  

1985 The refinery is expanded with the commissioning of a 27,000 b/d hydro cracker complicated

2009 Plans introduced to construct $1.2 billion fertilizer plant in Ruwais, producing urea

2010 Adnoc awards $10bn contracts for enlargement of Ruwais refinery, to double capability from 415,000 bpd

2014 Ruwais 261-outlet shopping center opens

2014 Manufacturing begins at newly expanded Ruwais refinery, offering jet gasoline and diesel and permitting the UAE to be self-sufficient for petrol provides

2014 Etihad Rail begins transportation of sulphur from Shah and Habshan to Ruwais for export

2017 Aldar Academies to function Adnoc’s colleges together with in Ruwais from September. Eight colleges function in complete inside the housing complicated.

2018 Adnoc proclaims plans to take a position $3.1 billion on upgrading its Ruwais refinery 

2018 NMC Healthcare chosen to handle operations of Ruwais Hospital

2018 Adnoc proclaims new downstream technique at occasion in Abu Dhabi on Could 13

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Ruwais timeline

1971 Abu Dhabi Nationwide Oil Firm established

1980 Ruwais Housing Advanced constructed, positioned 10 kilometres away from industrial vegetation

1982 120,000 bpd capability Ruwais refinery complicated formally inaugurated by the founding father of the UAE Sheikh Zayed

1984 Second part of Ruwais Housing Advanced constructed. At the moment the 7,000-unit complicated homes some 24,000 folks.  

1985 The refinery is expanded with the commissioning of a 27,000 b/d hydro cracker complicated

2009 Plans introduced to construct $1.2 billion fertilizer plant in Ruwais, producing urea

2010 Adnoc awards $10bn contracts for enlargement of Ruwais refinery, to double capability from 415,000 bpd

2014 Ruwais 261-outlet shopping center opens

2014 Manufacturing begins at newly expanded Ruwais refinery, offering jet gasoline and diesel and permitting the UAE to be self-sufficient for petrol provides

2014 Etihad Rail begins transportation of sulphur from Shah and Habshan to Ruwais for export

2017 Aldar Academies to function Adnoc’s colleges together with in Ruwais from September. Eight colleges function in complete inside the housing complicated.

2018 Adnoc proclaims plans to take a position $3.1 billion on upgrading its Ruwais refinery 

2018 NMC Healthcare chosen to handle operations of Ruwais Hospital

2018 Adnoc proclaims new downstream technique at occasion in Abu Dhabi on Could 13

Supply: The Nationwide

Ruwais timeline

1971 Abu Dhabi Nationwide Oil Firm established

1980 Ruwais Housing Advanced constructed, positioned 10 kilometres away from industrial vegetation

1982 120,000 bpd capability Ruwais refinery complicated formally inaugurated by the founding father of the UAE Sheikh Zayed

1984 Second part of Ruwais Housing Advanced constructed. At the moment the 7,000-unit complicated homes some 24,000 folks.  

1985 The refinery is expanded with the commissioning of a 27,000 b/d hydro cracker complicated

2009 Plans introduced to construct $1.2 billion fertilizer plant in Ruwais, producing urea

2010 Adnoc awards $10bn contracts for enlargement of Ruwais refinery, to double capability from 415,000 bpd

2014 Ruwais 261-outlet shopping center opens

2014 Manufacturing begins at newly expanded Ruwais refinery, offering jet gasoline and diesel and permitting the UAE to be self-sufficient for petrol provides

2014 Etihad Rail begins transportation of sulphur from Shah and Habshan to Ruwais for export

2017 Aldar Academies to function Adnoc’s colleges together with in Ruwais from September. Eight colleges function in complete inside the housing complicated.

2018 Adnoc proclaims plans to take a position $3.1 billion on upgrading its Ruwais refinery 

2018 NMC Healthcare chosen to handle operations of Ruwais Hospital

2018 Adnoc proclaims new downstream technique at occasion in Abu Dhabi on Could 13

Supply: The Nationwide

Ruwais timeline

1971 Abu Dhabi Nationwide Oil Firm established

1980 Ruwais Housing Advanced constructed, positioned 10 kilometres away from industrial vegetation

1982 120,000 bpd capability Ruwais refinery complicated formally inaugurated by the founding father of the UAE Sheikh Zayed

1984 Second part of Ruwais Housing Advanced constructed. At the moment the 7,000-unit complicated homes some 24,000 folks.  

1985 The refinery is expanded with the commissioning of a 27,000 b/d hydro cracker complicated

2009 Plans introduced to construct $1.2 billion fertilizer plant in Ruwais, producing urea

2010 Adnoc awards $10bn contracts for enlargement of Ruwais refinery, to double capability from 415,000 bpd

2014 Ruwais 261-outlet shopping center opens

2014 Manufacturing begins at newly expanded Ruwais refinery, offering jet gasoline and diesel and permitting the UAE to be self-sufficient for petrol provides

2014 Etihad Rail begins transportation of sulphur from Shah and Habshan to Ruwais for export

2017 Aldar Academies to function Adnoc’s colleges together with in Ruwais from September. Eight colleges function in complete inside the housing complicated.

2018 Adnoc proclaims plans to take a position $3.1 billion on upgrading its Ruwais refinery 

2018 NMC Healthcare chosen to handle operations of Ruwais Hospital

2018 Adnoc proclaims new downstream technique at occasion in Abu Dhabi on Could 13

Supply: The Nationwide

Ruwais timeline

1971 Abu Dhabi Nationwide Oil Firm established

1980 Ruwais Housing Advanced constructed, positioned 10 kilometres away from industrial vegetation

1982 120,000 bpd capability Ruwais refinery complicated formally inaugurated by the founding father of the UAE Sheikh Zayed

1984 Second part of Ruwais Housing Advanced constructed. At the moment the 7,000-unit complicated homes some 24,000 folks.  

1985 The refinery is expanded with the commissioning of a 27,000 b/d hydro cracker complicated

2009 Plans introduced to construct $1.2 billion fertilizer plant in Ruwais, producing urea

2010 Adnoc awards $10bn contracts for enlargement of Ruwais refinery, to double capability from 415,000 bpd

2014 Ruwais 261-outlet shopping center opens

2014 Manufacturing begins at newly expanded Ruwais refinery, offering jet gasoline and diesel and permitting the UAE to be self-sufficient for petrol provides

2014 Etihad Rail begins transportation of sulphur from Shah and Habshan to Ruwais for export

2017 Aldar Academies to function Adnoc’s colleges together with in Ruwais from September. Eight colleges function in complete inside the housing complicated.

2018 Adnoc proclaims plans to take a position $3.1 billion on upgrading its Ruwais refinery 

2018 NMC Healthcare chosen to handle operations of Ruwais Hospital

2018 Adnoc proclaims new downstream technique at occasion in Abu Dhabi on Could 13

Supply: The Nationwide

Ruwais timeline

1971 Abu Dhabi Nationwide Oil Firm established

1980 Ruwais Housing Advanced constructed, positioned 10 kilometres away from industrial vegetation

1982 120,000 bpd capability Ruwais refinery complicated formally inaugurated by the founding father of the UAE Sheikh Zayed

1984 Second part of Ruwais Housing Advanced constructed. At the moment the 7,000-unit complicated homes some 24,000 folks.  

1985 The refinery is expanded with the commissioning of a 27,000 b/d hydro cracker complicated

2009 Plans introduced to construct $1.2 billion fertilizer plant in Ruwais, producing urea

2010 Adnoc awards $10bn contracts for enlargement of Ruwais refinery, to double capability from 415,000 bpd

2014 Ruwais 261-outlet shopping center opens

2014 Manufacturing begins at newly expanded Ruwais refinery, offering jet gasoline and diesel and permitting the UAE to be self-sufficient for petrol provides

2014 Etihad Rail begins transportation of sulphur from Shah and Habshan to Ruwais for export

2017 Aldar Academies to function Adnoc’s colleges together with in Ruwais from September. Eight colleges function in complete inside the housing complicated.

2018 Adnoc proclaims plans to take a position $3.1 billion on upgrading its Ruwais refinery 

2018 NMC Healthcare chosen to handle operations of Ruwais Hospital

2018 Adnoc proclaims new downstream technique at occasion in Abu Dhabi on Could 13

Supply: The Nationwide

Ruwais timeline

1971 Abu Dhabi Nationwide Oil Firm established

1980 Ruwais Housing Advanced constructed, positioned 10 kilometres away from industrial vegetation

1982 120,000 bpd capability Ruwais refinery complicated formally inaugurated by the founding father of the UAE Sheikh Zayed

1984 Second part of Ruwais Housing Advanced constructed. At the moment the 7,000-unit complicated homes some 24,000 folks.  

1985 The refinery is expanded with the commissioning of a 27,000 b/d hydro cracker complicated

2009 Plans introduced to construct $1.2 billion fertilizer plant in Ruwais, producing urea

2010 Adnoc awards $10bn contracts for enlargement of Ruwais refinery, to double capability from 415,000 bpd

2014 Ruwais 261-outlet shopping center opens

2014 Manufacturing begins at newly expanded Ruwais refinery, offering jet gasoline and diesel and permitting the UAE to be self-sufficient for petrol provides

2014 Etihad Rail begins transportation of sulphur from Shah and Habshan to Ruwais for export

2017 Aldar Academies to function Adnoc’s colleges together with in Ruwais from September. Eight colleges function in complete inside the housing complicated.

2018 Adnoc proclaims plans to take a position $3.1 billion on upgrading its Ruwais refinery 

2018 NMC Healthcare chosen to handle operations of Ruwais Hospital

2018 Adnoc proclaims new downstream technique at occasion in Abu Dhabi on Could 13

Supply: The Nationwide

Ruwais timeline

1971 Abu Dhabi Nationwide Oil Firm established

1980 Ruwais Housing Advanced constructed, positioned 10 kilometres away from industrial vegetation

1982 120,000 bpd capability Ruwais refinery complicated formally inaugurated by the founding father of the UAE Sheikh Zayed

1984 Second part of Ruwais Housing Advanced constructed. At the moment the 7,000-unit complicated homes some 24,000 folks.  

1985 The refinery is expanded with the commissioning of a 27,000 b/d hydro cracker complicated

2009 Plans introduced to construct $1.2 billion fertilizer plant in Ruwais, producing urea

2010 Adnoc awards $10bn contracts for enlargement of Ruwais refinery, to double capability from 415,000 bpd

2014 Ruwais 261-outlet shopping center opens

2014 Manufacturing begins at newly expanded Ruwais refinery, offering jet gasoline and diesel and permitting the UAE to be self-sufficient for petrol provides

2014 Etihad Rail begins transportation of sulphur from Shah and Habshan to Ruwais for export

2017 Aldar Academies to function Adnoc’s colleges together with in Ruwais from September. Eight colleges function in complete inside the housing complicated.

2018 Adnoc proclaims plans to take a position $3.1 billion on upgrading its Ruwais refinery 

2018 NMC Healthcare chosen to handle operations of Ruwais Hospital

2018 Adnoc proclaims new downstream technique at occasion in Abu Dhabi on Could 13

Supply: The Nationwide



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