Israeli firm's role in winning energy bid catches Yemen off guard
CAIRO — An Israeli subcontractor was said to have joined a winning
energy consortium in Yemen. However the Yemenis are denying that could have happened.
Israel's Starlims was said to have been selected as part of a $1 billion
natural gas project. The company was said to have been contracted by Yemen's
state-owned liquefied natural gas monopoly to supply software for the
establishment of energy laboratories.
"There is no chance the bid was given to an Israeli executor," a
spokesman for the Yemeni prime contractor said.
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"Dozens of companies are
participating in Yemen's natural gas project, but none of them is Israeli."
Starlims, with headquarters in Tel Aviv, was said to have been partnered
with a company from the United Arab Emirates. Starlims, which has not
confirmed the report, was also said to have offices in Hong Kong.