NIG is the largest leading industrial company in Kuwait outside the oil sec- tor and the 3rd top industrial company in the Gulf, with interests in just about every field.The conglomerate has investments in real estate; private equity; general civil and electromechanical contracting; building materials, cement, limestone, prefabricated buildings, steel and ceramic products; downstream petrochemical industries; port facilities, waste material handling; petrochemical shipping and logistics and environmental indus- tries; Islamic banking and investment services; financial, administrative and technical consulting services, power and electrical equipment; open hole logging; and privatization projects all across the GCC and, increasingly, around the globe.