Over 14,000 homes to be delivered over 15 years First neighbourhood of 611 homes on sale at Cityscape Abu Dhabi – maisonette prices start from AED290,000 and townhouses from AED899,900 Featuring HARVEST – supporting healthy and sustainable living Strategically located in Abu Dhabi, close to Dubai Expo 2020, capitalizing on UAE’s dynamic growth areas Aldar Properties PJSC (“Aldar”), announces the launch of a new AED10 billion masterplan that will incorporate and greatly enhance one of its already established destinations – Alghadeer, which sits close to the border of Abu Dhabi and Dubai within its Seih Al Sdeirah landbank. Alghadeer masterplan consists of 14,408 units, including villas, townhouses, and maisonettes. Total residential GFA is set to exceed 1.3 million sqm and will be complemented by office space, retail space, hospitality, education and community amenities. Commenting, Talal Al Dhiyebi, Chief Executive Officer, Aldar Properties said: “The launch of Alghadeer is clear statement of Aldar’s ambition. From its strategic location to its sustainable living initiatives, Alghadeer signals the creation of a new way of living for UAE residents, now and in the future. We are confident of the demand for a community which offers a distinct lifestyle – peaceful residential neighbourhoods, within close proximity to the bustling cities of Abu Dhabi and Dubai.  “This launch further underlines how Aldar is expanding its successful destination-led strategy to additional areas of Abu Dhabi, capitalizing on the UAE’s flourishing population as well as our reputation as Abu Dhabi’s leading developer. The scale and 15-year timeframe of the development underlines Aldar’s confidence in the Abu Dhabi residential market.” Alghadeer is designed to benefit from the significant growth being experienced in the north of Abu Dhabi and the south of Dubai. This area of the UAE includes major job creating projects such as Dubai Expo 2020, KIZAD, Dubai World Central incorporating Dubai South, the Al Maktoum Airport, as well as Dubai Industrial and Wholesale Cities, which will further boost the demand for high quality living spaces on the border of the two Emirates. With easy access to the UAE’s arterial highways, Alghadeer will become home to those seeking both connectivity, and an escape from city life. At the heart of Alghadeer is HARVEST, a multi-use agricultural led space featuring allotments, as well as THE HUB – a F&B outlet, THE STUDIO – an educational area for training and workshops, THE SHED – a dedicated area for purchasing farming tools and supplies, and THE MARKET – a retail area for freshly grown produce, and THE FIELD – where people can rent plots and grow their own produce. Appealing to those who prefer wide-open spaces and unique recreational amenities, the destination will also feature lakes, running and cycle tracks, gym, camping and BBQ sites and a network of walkable gardens and parks lit entirely by solar powered lights.   The new Alghadeer masterplan also includes schools, a hotel, public garden areas, community swimming pools, multi-use sports areas, and community centres. FIRST HOMES TO GO ON SALE AT CITYSCAPE ABU DHABI – 17^TH APRIL Aldar will initially launch the first neighbourhood of 611 homes for sale during Cityscape Abu Dhabi taking place in the UAE Capital from 17-19 April. Customers will have the opportunity to purchase maisonettes, townhouses and villas. This neighbourhood is located to the north west of the masterplan, and near Alghadeer’s central amenities such as HARVEST. Prices within this first release will start from AED290,000 for maisonettes, with townhouses starting at AED899,900. Construction of this first neighbourhood is scheduled to commence in 2018 and be completed during 2021. A PROVEN TRACK RECORD IN THIS DESTINATION The new Alghadeer masterplan incorporates Aldar’s existing community of the same name which boasts over 2,000 homes and is a thriving destination for many families. Alghadeer’s key success factor is its proximity to major growth areas within the emirates of Abu Dhabi and Dubai which enables residents of Alghadeer to have greater choice over where they work, shop, travel, and educate their children. Alghadeer’s masterplan, development model and floorplans will be available to view at Cityscape Abu Dhabi, which runs from 17 – 19 April, 2018.

Dr. Fatih Birol, the Executive Director of the International Energy Agency, accompanied by a delegation of senior IEA officials, visited the headquarters of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in Vienna today, and met with its Secretary General, H.E. Mohammad Sanusi Barkindo.

Dr. Birol and Mr. Barkindo underscored the growing working relationship between both organizations and their commitment to continued dialogue and cooperation. They also exchanged views on recent oil market developments. Dr. Birol’s visit was a timely one, given this new impetus towards greater cooperation. Mr. Barkindo, along  with an OPEC delegation, had visited the IEA’s headquarters in September 2016, a month after he had assumed office. Today’s meeting highlighted the sustained dialogue between energy producers and consumers that is necessary to enhance stability, security and transparency in energy markets. Dr. Birol and his team shared their views on current and future energy markets, as well as on cooperation with other international organizations. Dr. Birol began his career at OPEC before joining the IEA more than two decades ago. He has since emphasized that a healthy dialogue between the IEA and OPEC is critical to help guarantee energy security in an environmentally sound and economically sustainable way. “Whether it is under the ‘umbrella’ of the International Energy Forum (IEF), or through coordinated joint research activities, closer ‘collaboration’ and ‘complementarity’ between our two organizations have become the watchwords of the day,” H.E. Mohammad Barkindo said. “I am pleased to visit the OPEC Secretary General and the OPEC Secretariat,” Dr. Birol said. “This meeting represents yet another fruitful opportunity to exchange views, discuss recent trends in the market and further deepen the important ties between our organizations.” OPEC’s Secretary General has been a strong advocate of advancing dialogue and cooperation among producers and consumers.

Today, Facebook is launching the Data Abuse Bounty to reward people who report any misuse of data by app developers. We committed to launching this program a few weeks ago as part of our efforts to more quickly uncover potential abuse of people’s information. The Data Abuse Bounty, inspired by the existing bug bounty program that we use to uncover and address security issues, will help us identify violations of our policies.   This program will reward people with first-hand knowledge and proof of cases where a Facebook platform app collects and transfers people’s data to another party to be sold, stolen or used for scams or political influence. Just like the bug bounty program, we will reward based on the impact of each report. While there is no maximum, high impact bug reports have garnered as much as $40,000 for people who bring them to our attention. We’ll review all legitimate reports and respond as quickly as possible when we identify a credible threat to people’s information. If we confirm data abuse, we will shut down the offending app and take legal action against the company selling or buying the data, if necessary. We’ll pay the person who reported the issue, and we’ll also alert those we believe to be affected. This program is the first of its kind so it will change as we learn and get your feedback. For more information, please visit: facebook.com/data-abuse

Last week, Mark Zuckerberg testified in front of the US Congress. He answered more than 500 questions and promised that we would get back on the 40 or so questions he couldn’t answer at the time. We’re following up with Congress on these directly but we also wanted to take the opportunity to explain more about the information we get from other websites and apps, how we use the data they send to us, and the controls you have. I lead a team focused on privacy and data use, including GDPR compliance and the tools people can use to control and download their information. When does Facebook get data about people from other websites and apps? Many websites and apps use Facebook services to make their content and ads more engaging and relevant. These services include:

• Social plugins, such as our Like and Share buttons, which make other sites more social and help you share content on Facebook;
• Facebook Login, which lets you use your Facebook account to log into another website or app;
• Facebook Analytics, which helps websites and apps better understand how people use their services; and
• Facebook ads and measurement tools, which enable websites and apps to show ads from Facebook advertisers, to run their own ads on Facebook or elsewhere, and to understand the effectiveness of their ads.

When you visit a site or app that uses our services, we receive information even if you’re logged out or don’t have a Facebook account. This is because other apps and sites don’t know who is using Facebook. Many companies offer these types of services and, like Facebook, they also get information from the apps and sites that use them. Twitter, Pinterest and LinkedIn all have similar Like and Share buttons to help people share things on their services. Google has a popular analytics service. And Amazon, Google and Twitter all offer login features. These companies — and many others — also offer advertising services. In fact, most websites and apps send the same information to multiple companies each time you visit them. What kind of data does Facebook get from these websites and apps?  Apps and websites that use our services, such as the Like button or Facebook Analytics, send us information to make their content and ads better. To understand more about how this happens, it helps to know how most websites and apps work. I’ll use websites as an example, but this generally applies to apps, too. When you visit a website, your browser (for example Chrome, Safari or Firefox) sends a request to the site’s server. The browser shares your IP address so the website knows where on the internet to send the site content. The website also gets information about the browser and operating system (for example Android or Windows) you’re using because not all browsers and devices support the same features. It also gets cookies, which are identifiers that websites use to know if you’ve visited before. This can help with things like saving items in your shopping cart. A website typically sends two things back to your browser: first, content from that site; and second, instructions for the browser to send your request to the other companies providing content or services on the site. So when a website uses one of our services, your browser sends the same kinds of information to Facebook as the website receives. We also get information about which website or app you’re using, which is necessary to know when to provide our tools. This happens for any other service the site is using. For example, when you see a YouTube video on a site that’s not YouTube, it tells your browser to request the video from YouTube. YouTube then sends it to you. How does Facebook use the data it receives from other websites and apps?  Our privacy policy explains in detail what we do with the information we receive — and we just updated the policy to make it easier to read. There are three main ways in which Facebook uses the information we get from other websites and apps: providing our services to these sites or apps; improving safety and security on Facebook; and enhancing our own products and services. I’ll share a little more about each of these, but first I want to be clear: We don’t sell people’s data. Period. Providing Our Services

• Social plugins and Facebook Login. We use your IP address, browser/operating system information, and the address of the website or app you’re using to make these features work. For example, knowing your IP address allows us to send the Like button to your browser and helps us show it in your language. Cookies and device identifiers help us determine whether you’re logged in, which makes it easier to share content or use Facebook to log into another app.
• Facebook Analytics. Facebook Analytics gives websites and apps data about how they are used. IP addresses help us list the countries where people are using an app. Browser and operating system information enable us to give developers information about the platforms people use to access their app. Cookies and other identifiers help us count the number of unique visitors. Cookies also help us recognize which visitors are Facebook users so we can provide aggregated demographic information, like age and gender, about the people using the app.
• Ads. Facebook Audience Network enables other websites and apps to show ads from Facebook advertisers. When we get a request to show an Audience Network ad, we need to know where to send it and the browser and operating system a person is using. Cookies and device identifiers help us determine whether the person uses Facebook. If they don’t, we can show an ad encouraging them to sign up for Facebook. If they do, we’ll show them ads from the same advertisers that are targeting them on Facebook. We can also use the fact that they visited a site or app to show them an ad from that business – or a similar one – back on Facebook. (Updated April 16, 2018 at 5:30PM to clarify that people with Facebook accounts will see Audience Network ads from the same advertisers targeting them on Facebook.)
• Ad Measurement. An advertiser can choose to add the Facebook Pixel, some computer code, to their site. This allows us to give advertisers stats about how many people are responding to their ads — even if they saw the ad on a different device — without us sharing anyone’s personal information.

Keeping Your Information Secure We also use the information we receive from websites and apps to help protect the security of Facebook. For example, receiving data about the sites a particular browser has visited can help us identify bad actors. If someone tries to log into your account using an IP address from a different country, we might ask some questions to verify it’s you. Or if a browser has visited hundreds of sites in the last five minutes, that’s a sign the device might be a bot. We’ll ask them to prove they’re a real person by completing additional security checks. Improving Our Products and Services The information we receive also helps us improve the content and ads we show on Facebook. So if you visit a lot of sports sites that use our services, you might see sports-related stories higher up in your News Feed. If you’ve looked at travel sites, we can show you ads for hotels and rental cars. What controls do I have?  As Mark said last week, we believe everyone deserves good privacy controls. We require websites and apps who use our tools to tell you they’re collecting and sharing your information with us, and to get your permission to do so. We give you a number of controls over the way this data is used to provide more relevant content and ads:

• News Feed preferences lets you choose which content you see first and hide content you don’t want to see in your feed. You can also view your News Feed chronologicallyinstead of ranked by what Facebook predicts you might be most interested in.
• Ad preferences shows you the advertisers whose ads you might be seeing because you visited their sites or apps. You can remove any of these advertisers to stop seeing their ads.
  • In addition, you can opt out of these types of ads entirely — so you never see ads on Facebook based on information we have received from other websites and apps.
  • Finally, if you don’t want us to use your Facebook interests to show you ads on other websites and apps, there’s a control for that too.

Whether it’s information from apps and websites, or information you share with other people on Facebook, we want to put you in control — and be transparent about what information Facebook has and how it is used. We’ll keep working to make that easier.

Mubadala Petroleum announces that it has signed the Production Sharing Contract (PSC) for Andaman I, as awarded by the Government of Indonesia in the 2017 Indonesian Licence Round. Mubadala Petroleum is the operator of the Andaman I PSC and a partner in the Andaman II PSC, operated by Premier Oil, which was also signed last week. The Andaman I and II PSCs are adjacent and located in the underexplored but proven North Sumatra basin offshore Aceh, a region that Mubadala Petroleum has been involved in since 2011 through joint study agreements.  The PSCs have the potential to unlock a new material gas play for domestic consumption in North Sumatra and indeed long term export to regional markets. The work commitment for the Andaman I exploration block is to conduct sub surface studies and to acquire 3D seismic, in the first 3 year term. Dr Bakheet Al Katheeri, Mubadala Petroleum’s Chief Executive Officer, commented:” The operated Andaman I PSC and our interest in the Andaman II PSC, mark the further extension of our Indonesia portfolio with a new high impact growth hub. These new exploration blocks support our growth strategy of finding and, if successful, developing gas for Indonesia’s growing market while it has the potential to deliver significant organic growth opportunities for our existing Indonesian business in the longer term.”

Deyaar Development PJSC (“Deyaar”), one of Dubai’s leading property developers and real estate service providers, has started the handover process for the two residential towers in its iconic Mont Rose project which marks Deyaar’s first handover of 2018. Located in Dubai Science Park, the Mont Rose is a contemporary residential and hotel-apartment project. It comprises three towers: Mont Rose residential towers A and B, and one hotel-apartment tower, the Millennium Deyaar Mont Rose Apartments, which will be managed by Millennium & Copthorne, one of the fastest-growing hotel groups in the region. The hotel tower will begin operation in September 2018. Saeed Al Qatami, CEO of Deyaar said: “Delivering a project to our owners at the beginning of the year sets the tone for what we aim to accomplish in 2018. Mont Rose is one of our iconic projects, which is situated to take advantage of Dubai’s up-and-coming areas – including the Expo 2020 site. Deyaar is committed to delivering quality projects that meet our exacting standards, in terms of build, location, and return on investment.” Owners were invited to an orientation event to go through the handover process and the necessary procedures and to inspect their units before receiving their keys. Through this event, Deyaar aims to facilitate the delivery of units to new owners and familiarise them with their new units. Deyaar also expects to deliver The Atria in Q2 2018. Currently near completion, The Atria is located in Business Bay and comprises a four-star hotel apartment tower and a residential tower. The project has 347 serviced apartments managed by the Millennium & Copthorne Group, and 219 residential units. Residents will have access to facilities such as a luxury spa, fine dining restaurant, gymnasium, and an infinity pool that overlooks the iconic Burj Khalifa. Listed on the Dubai Financial Market and majority-owned by Dubai Islamic Bank (DIB), Deyaar is one of Dubai’s leading developers, with real estate ventures spanning key growth corridors and prime locations within the emirate. Over the years, Deyaar has delivered an extensive portfolio of commercial and residential properties, all offering the highest levels of service and quality.