Shares in Gulf Keystone rose 15% on Tuesday, following a 're-organisation of interests' in Iraqi Kurdistan - rumours also continue to circulate regarding a possible bid for the company from China. Gulf Keystone confirms that certain Production Sharing Contract ("PSC") amendments were approved and executed by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and all the other […]
Shares in WesternZagros Resources were up 4% in early trading, following an update on it's operations in Iraqi Kurdistan. The company reports that it has recovered an additional 1655 metres of drill string at the Kurdamir-1 well, with approximately 800 metres remaining in the well bore. The current operations have proven to take longer than […]
Iraq Business News is always delighted to bring you the latest exciting new developments from Iraq, and it's refreshing to see that the country's building boom is being carefully planned and tastefully designed. Many new architectural projects in Iraq can be credited to Dewan Architects & Engineers, founded by Iraqi-born Mohamed Al Assam in 1984. […]
JOINT BASE BALAD, Iraq - In 2007, a Soldier in Talil came up with a simple idea to foster relations between the United States military and Iraq - provide desperately needed engineering textbooks to a local Iraqi university. Working through connections with his alma mater, Oregon State University, then-Captain Joshua Mater, who was a Civil […]
BPS Drilling has plans to open its operational office in the City of Erbil, located in the Kurdish Region of Iraq. BPS will open an operational office in the capital city of Erbil along with secure storage space to support its drilling operations. The company plans to include a full well test/early production facility as […]
Sterling Energy, the AIM listed independent oil & gas, exploration & production company with interests in the Middle East and Africa, has given an update on its activities at the Sangaw North exploration well, in Iraqi Kurdistan: Operations at the Sangaw North #1 exploration well have been halted following a failure of drilling rig equipment. […]
Associated Press reports that federal securities regulators are settling civil charges against two executives charged with bribing Iraqi officials for contracts to supply an oil processing chemical made by their company. The Securities and Exchange Commission says David Turner and Ousama Naaman will pay $1.35 million. It says they funneled $9.2 million to Iraqi and […]
A delegation from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (USCC) arrived in Basra on Sunday to discuss investment projects and U.S. companies’ involvement with the province, according Max Haivanis, Senior Manager Middle Eastern Affairs. “A visit by USCC representatives to Basra is meant to set the stage for U.S. firms’ entry into business projects in the […]
An additional 13 agricultural silos are to be build in the Kurdistan Region by the end of 2013, lifting the storage capacity up to one million tons, said an official source on Sunday, as reported by AKnews. Before Saddam Hussein’s fall in 2003, there were two silos in the region with a storage capacity of […]
The government of Nepal has lifted the ban on Nepalis working in Iraq. An estimated 30,000 Nepalis working in Iraq were facing the prospect of deportation after the US asked its contractors to send home expatriate workers whose countries impose a travel ban in Iraq. "We took the decision for the sake of Nepalis already […]
The third stage of the development of Maytham al-Tamar Street in central Karbala was started on Thursday, according to the province’s reconstruction & strategic planning committee. “The project’s third stage, which is launched at a total cost of 20.304 billion Iraqi dinars [$17m], is expected to ease the traffic congestion at the entrance of city, […]
The Kurdistan Regional Government has signed a trade contract with the Republic of Belarus, AKnews reported on Sunday. Last week a Belarusian delegation including the representatives of the Belarus trade and foreign ministries arrived in the Region. Speaking to AKnews, Fida’eddin Gardi, a member at Erbil Chamber of Commerce and Trade, told AKnews the contract […]
