Maneuvering through narrow streets in the stifling heat, 24 Sarens employees and 5 police officers successfully delivered an oil rig to the North Rumaila Oil Field in southern Iraq. This super-giant oil field is an important resource: it contains an estimated 17 billion barrels of oil, or 12% of the country’s reserves. Sarens performed the […]
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Calls for Govt to approve Deal for Iraq-Jordan Highway
By Editor on June 4, 2017 in Construction & Engineering In Iraq, Iraq Transportation News, Politics, Security
The Head of the Parliamentary Finance Committee, Mohammed al-Halboussi, has reportedly requested that the Iraqi government expedite the approval of the protection and security contract for the International Highway between Iraq and Jordan and allow the re-opening of the border-crossing between the two countries. Halboussi stated that the project was considered an exceptional one, which […]
Academic says Visiting Iraq caused Problems entering US
By Editor on May 27, 2017 in Iraq Education and Training News, Iraq Transportation News, Politics, Security
By John Lee. A British academic has said that visiting Iraq has caused him to have problems entering the United States. Writing in Times Higher Education, Nick Petford, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Northampton, said: “My forays [into Iraq] have not been without consequence. In March this year I fell foul of Donald Trump’s travel restrictions […]
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How Iraq plans to Secure Key Border Road
By Mustafa Saadoun for Al Monitor. Any views expressed here are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. Iraq is trying to revive the Trebil border crossing between Iraq and Jordan, which was closed in 2014 after the Islamic State (IS) took control of Anbar province. But […]
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So many Iraqi Airports, so few Planes
By Wassim Bassem for Al Monitor. Any opinions expressed here are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. Even if it were true that Sumerians built the first airport at Nasiriyah in 5000 BC, as Iraqi Transport Minister Kazem Finjan claimed in October, they would be shocked […]
ICTSI Ramps Up Business at Umm Qasr
By John Lee. Philippines-based International Container Terminal Services Inc. (ICTSI) has said it has increased its volumes by 12 percent over the past year, mainly due to the continuing volume ramp-up at its terminal at Umm Qasr port. The company inaugurated the first phase of its $130-million greenfield port development at Basra Gateway Terminal (BGT) […]
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Call to Re-open Border Crossing with Jordan
By John Lee. The President of the Iraqi Business Council in Amman has called for the re-opening of Tureibil [Tarbiel, Tirbil, Traibil, Trebil, Turaybeel] border crossing between Jordan and Iraq. According to a report from Petra, Majid Al Saedi said the move would boost the two countries’ economies and enhance trade, which has dropped significantly […]
Shaikan Crude to be Exported by Truck
Gulf Keystone Petroleum (GKP), operator of the Shaikan Field in Iraqi Kurdistan, has said the Kurdistan Regional Government’s Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) is to begin exporting all Shaikan crude production via trucks to Turkey, from the end of February. Subsequently, no Shaikan crude will be injected into the Kirkuk-Ceyhan export pipeline at Fishkhabour, until […]
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Iraq to Acquire “Large Fleet” of Oil Tankers
By John Lee. Reuters quotes Oil Minister Jabar Ali al-Luaibi [Allibi] as saying that Iraq plans to acquire a “large fleet” of oil tankers. Having owned as many as 24 tankers in the 1980s, the state-owned Iraqi Oil Tankers Company‘s fleet was largely destroyed in the Iraq War in 1991. (Source: Reuters) (Picture credit: Tasnim, […]
Mega-sized Cargoes Arrive at Iraq Port
The largest cargoes ever to arrive in Iraq have been unloaded at Basra Multipurpose Terminal (BMT), in the port of Umm Qasr. The four LPG Bullets with unit weights of 665 tons were carried on the MV Happy Star. They measure 65 meters in length and 12 meters in diameter, and will be used at […]
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Iraqi Port Receives Largest Ship to date
Basra Multipurpose Terminal (BMT), in the port of Umm Qasr, has recently welcomed Iraq’s largest vessel do date, the 325 meter-long MSC Rita. The arrival was marked by a visit from the Minister of Transport, Kadhim Finjan, who took the helm and successfully piloted the massive ship safely through the channel. The MSC Rita sails […]
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Renewed Tensions over Kuwait-Iraq Border
By Editor on February 8, 2017 in Iraq Industry & Trade News, Iraq Oil & Gas News, Iraq Transportation News, Security
By Sara al-Qaher for Al Monitor. Any opinions expressed here are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. Controversial canal again sparks dispute in Iraq Iraq is fighting a tide of dissent as its lawmakers accuse the government of handing over the Khor Abdullah border canal to Kuwait […]
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