Over the past decade, there has been a rising interest in developing man-made islands in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region overall. This strategy aims to achieve two goals mainly, the first being accommodating the growing population of the region’s nations while the second is promoting and developing the non-petroleum economic sectors; crude oil has been - and probably still is - the backbone of most of the Arabian Peninsula’s countries. And the Kingdom of Bahrain is no exception to that.