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Long diversion, from Jubail and back. Actually I thought the company doing the re-commissioning was Liange-Wimpey in Liquidation?


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How could you forget Alireza? frown

For those who are aware of that episode, was it not a brave thing to do? Personally, I admired them greatly!


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remind me, Alireza? commissioning or re-commissioning

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The contractor, Laing Wimpey Alireza (a Saudi-British joint venture) who, despairing of ever being paid after repeated delays, spirited its employees out of the country. Or, if you like, did a "corporate runner"!

In staggered groups, staff went to different parts of the country and then departed on "vacations" using exit/re-entry visas. Such stealth was deemed necessary to avoid the taking of "commercial hostages". And it succeeded, as the company retrieved all its workers without a single one being held. smile

There was also a story about a special aircraft being chartered to pick up people at the (then) airport at Dhahran (although I have never established the truth of that one ... perhaps Tony knows)!


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That was during the original commissioning, Laing Wimpey in Liquidation went in at a later date to recommission the equipment and restart the project under pressure I must add.


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Yes, LWA in Liquidation does have a certain ring to it, does it not?

Under pressure? After being paid, you mean? smile

LWA built the hospital on a turnkey basis. Not only the medical equipment, and the commissioning thereof. By the time of the famous adventure referred to, the hospital as a whole was already completed, more or less. Again, Tony knows.


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Had anyone come across my old friend "Blue" the biomed or Mr Buck Rose?

They Used to work in jordan on through IAL (hayes London) before 1987 project then Jubail, the KKNGH in Jeddah?

Please send a search party to find where they are now?


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Yes, I met Buck Rose at the (aforementioned) Al-Fanateer Hospital in ... oh, I guess it would have been 1988. And (as you say) I believe he went from there to Kilo 21 (was it?) of the Old Makkah Road! But I've not heard of him since.

And the mysterious "Blue" ... I came across such a fellow in the King Hussein Medical Center in Amman back in 1985. And that would have been with IAL. Not heard of since (but, as I have already mentioned, I have tended to move in different circles from the mainstream, as it were).

By the way, that (Amman) is the where and the when of myself and Tony (Dowman) first getting acquainted. Wheels within wheels? smile


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Who never went to King Hussein Medical Center is another question, when LWA in liquidation went back to the hospital it was to re-commission the medical equipment.

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Indeed. We could start a whole new thread devoted solely to that! smile

And your point about LWA is ... ?


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