Archive | 2011

New Tenders From MRC

Midland Refineries Company announces the below tenders: -Tools (Portable Power Driven) -Electrical Plant Spares -Tools -Instrument & Meters -Instrument & Meters -Instruments & Meters -PDC Propylene Dichloride  -Supply Of Material -5 Ton Lorry Truck -Lab Equipment -Transformers -Spare Part For Reactors no R-201, R-202, R-203 -Equipments -Tools (Portable Power Driven) tube expander.   For further […]

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New Spares and Supply Tenders From NGC

NGC announces the following tenders: -Spares For Sponsler Turbine Meter . -Quotation for the Supply Of  Forklift Truck 1 Ton. -Instrument Adjustable Air Regulator With Out Put Gauge . Click on each link to obtain further information. Please note that offers must be in sealed envelopes (technical offer ) with indent number and closing date […]

Iraqi Govt to Boost Spending by 36%

Iraq's cabinet plans a substantial boost in public spending next year in a draft budget proposed on Sunday, government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said in a statement. AFP reports that the $111-billion spending programme for 2012 is a 36 percent increase on the same figure for this year, with 15 percent of next year's budget allocated […]

Iraq “The Next Saudi Arabia”: MAN Trucks

Iraq’s extensive rebuilding requirements could make it “the next Saudi Arabia” for contractors and suppliers, according to an executive at MAN Trucks. Construction Weekly reports that Dave van Graan, vice president of sales at the German heavy vehicle giant, said the gradual pick up in demand for machinery to help develop Iraq has already given […]

No More Charity: Making Iraq's Economy Work

Most of Iraq’s revenue comes from oil. But natural riches may also mean fewer political freedoms and a state that behaves like a charity toward its own people. This must change, an Iraqi economist Nagih al-Obeidi argues in this article from Niqash. The economic and political theory on “rentier states” says that a nation that […]

Tamimi Global to Pay $13m for KBR Kickbacks

Tamimi Global will pay $13 million to settle U.S. criminal and civil allegations that it paid kickbacks to a KBR employee and improper gratuities to a U.S. Army sergeant, according to a report from Bloomberg. The Dhahran-based unit of the Saudi Arabian construction and manufacturing Tamimi Group, gave kickbacks to get Army logistical support subcontracts […]

USAID Awards Grants to Local NGOs

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), together with program partners convened Wednesday, September 14, 2011, in Baghdad to award the first round of grants funded by the US Government through USAID’s Iraq Access to Justice Program. Representatives of Government of Iraq ministries, the U.S. Embassy and other partner organizations attended the meeting, at […]

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Sweden to Open Embassy Office in Erbil

The KRG’s Head of Foreign Relations in Erbil met Sweden’s Ambassador to Iraq, who announced that Sweden will upgrade its diplomatic presence in Kurdistan to an Embassy Office. The Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) Minister Falah Mustafa Bakir received H.E. Carl Magnus Nesser and his delegation. The ambassador said that the Swedish government has decided to […]

Gulf Keystone Raises $200m to Fund Iraq Programme

Gulf Keystone has announced that it has successfully raised $200 million to fund its exploration programme in Iraqi Kurdistan. In line with the Company's forward strategy announced on 14 September 2011 and in order to increase the focus on the aggressive programme of exploration and appraisal of the Shaikan, Sheikh Adi and Ber Bahr blocks […]

Volvo Lands 1,000-Truck Deal in Iraq

Volvo Truck Corporation now re-establishes its presence in Iraq by signing an importer contract with the Iraqi company Zam Zam Spring General Trading. A Letter of intent has also been signed for delivery of 1,000 trucks to the Iraqi Ministry of Transport and its related state companies. The intention is to deliver trucks for operation […]

Gas Fire at Rumaila to Hit Oil Production

Reuters reports that a fire has broken out at a state-run gas compression unit at Iraq's Rumaila oilfield on Tuesday, killing one person and hitting oil production. "We have stopped exporting gas that would have been exported into this compressor and this will have an impact on our production from Rumaila," BP spokesman David Nicholas […]