CAT Group

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    Emile Bustani forms Contracting and Trading Company (C.A.T.) and wins a first contract with the Haifa oil refinery.
    1937
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    C.A.T. registered in Lebanon by partners Emile Bustani, Shukri Shammas and Abdallah Khoury. First contracts carried out for British army.
    1942
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    Roadworks carried out Army base with 101 buildings constructed for the British Army during World War II.
    1943
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    First major oil pipeline contract – for Iraq Petroleum Company – won by C.A.T.
    1947
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    C.A.T. joins forces with Motherwell Bridge Engineering Company of Scotland to form Motherwell Bridge Contracting and Trading Company – Mothercat –and Group enters field of pipeline, tankage and process plant construction with contracts in Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar and Syria.
    1951
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    C.A.T. Group undertakes their first projects in Pakistan.
    1955
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    First 30-inch diameter pipeline laid in Kuwait.
    1955a
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    Presidential Palace, Baghdad completed.
    1955b
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    Construction of facilities to allow first export of oil from Qatar. First 200 foot diameter floating roof crude oil tank erected at Abadan.
    1959
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    Facilities constructed to allow export of oil from Jebel Dhana in the Trucial Coast – now Abu Dhabi.
    1962
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    Emile Bustani dies in Beirut plane crash.
    1963
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    The Group expands its activities into Ghana in West Africa
    1964
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    The Group expands its activities into Guinea in West Africa winning a 55 miles 32”-26” pipeline project
    1964a
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    The C.A.T. Group expands its activities into Nigeria in West Africa winning a pipeline project
    1964b
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    C.A.T. builds first fertilizer complex in Saudi Arabia.
    1967
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    Contract gained to lay first 52-inch diameter pipeline in Kuwait to aid oil export.
    1967a
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    C.A.T. starts working in Somalia on the Hargeisa to Berbera road and later on the Berbera Jetty
    1972
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    Construction of first cement works in the United Arab Emirates undertaken at Ras-al-Khaimeh, followed by six further plants in Gulf area.
    1973
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    Mothercat Marine Division formed to carry out projects in the Gulf area.
    1975
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    Following the 30” Pipeline in Iran won in 1964, C.A.T. won a 125km pipeline of 10”.
    1975a
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    Group wins contract to build Kuwaiti Embassy in Sudan, Four subsidiaries formed: Cycat in Cyprus; Eurocat and Francat in France; Mothercat (Saudi Arabia) W.L.L. registered in Jeddah.
    1978
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    Mothercat undertakes £10 million scheme to provide village water supplies in remote Musandam area of Oman. £5 million sports centre completed in Sharjah.
    1978a
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    Contract won to build 800MW Riyadh power station in Saudi Arabia, involving erection of sixteen 50MW gas turbine generators.
    1979
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    The 536 kilometre long 48-inch diameter East-West crude oil pipeline completed in Saudi Arabia.
    1980
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    Roadworks totalling £31 million carried out in Nigeria for State and Federal Governments.
    1980a
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    Mothercat and SAIPEM carry out construction of City Feeder Lines to Riyadh, with a contract value of $120 million.
    1981
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    In joint venture with SAIPEM SpA and TEKFEN SA, Group is awarded US$ 425 million contract for water transmission facilities in Saudi Arabia, including two pipelines from Shuqaiq desalination plant – to Gizan, 100 miles south on Coast and to Khamis Mushait and Ahad Rafida, 115 miles inland with a rise to 8,000 feet above sea level.
    1982
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    C.A.T. constructs a domestic water supply pipeline of 1200mm Diameter in Jordan
    1982a
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    C.A.T. commissions IBM 4331 KO2 central computer at Group’s new Electronic Data Processing bureau in Paris – with target date for total computerisation of worldwide company activities set for 1985.
    1983
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    Fundamental restructuring of the C.A.T. Group under a new holding company in Luxembourg and instigation of a corporate governance. Restructured and revitalised, the C.A.T. Group is poised for rapid growth
    1994
  • Headquarters
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    C.A.T. Bldg. Al-Arz Str.
    Saifi Quarter P.O.Box 11-1036
    Riad El Solh Beirut 1107 2070
    Beirut, Lebanon
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