Archive | 2011

New Automatic In-Line Lube Oil Blending Unit

Midland Refineries Co announces for purchasing of a new automatic in-line oil blending unit of 40 M3/HR Capacity. Technical and commercial offers to be submitted separately by DHL and all the offers that send by email will be refused. Closing Date is 4/7/2011 till 1 o'clock in the afternoon. Please click here to find all the tender's […]

Zain Iraq Planning Stock Market Launch

Zain's Iraq subsidiary is preparing for an initial public offering (IPO) on the Iraq Stock Exchange that will raise an estimated $80 million [96 billion Iraqi dinars] for a 20% stake, the Kuwait Arabic daily al-Qabas reports. As a condition of its operating licence, the company is required to list its shares on the Iraqi […]

New 4-Star Hotel for Sulaymaniya

Faruk Group Holding, a group of companies with a diversified range of interests including telecommunications, cement manufacturing, hotels, medical services, properties, construction and IT, recently announced the upcoming launch of the first international boutique hotel, Copthorne Hotel, Baranan in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq. The Copthorne Hotel Baranan is a four-star hotel located in the tourist district of […]

Iraqi Parliament Approves Japanese Loan

The Iraqi Parliament ratified two memoranda and two letters containing the Japanese loan to finance a number of electrical and water projects on Sunday. The loan is reportedly valued at 87.84 billion Japanese Yen [$1.1 billion, 1.3 trillion Iraqi dinars]. A statement, issued by the parliamentary media center, said that the loan is "to rebuild […]

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Iraq Invites Tenders for 9 New Shopping Malls

Iraq's State Company for Shopping Centers / Ministry of Trade has invited national, Arab and foreign companies specialized in the design, construction and management of modern shopping malls to indicate their interest in investing in the estate lands mentioned in the table shown below: No. The Location and Type of the estates Details & Description […]

Shell 'Ready to Start' $12.5bn Gas Capture Project

Shell and Mitsubishi are preparing to begin a delayed $12.5 billion natural-gas project in Iraq, according to a report from Bloomberg. Vice president and country chairman Hans Nijkamp said in an interview published on the website of Energy Exchange, organizer of an Iraqi energy conference to be held in Istanbul in September: “Shell and Mitsubishi […]

'Stolen' Iraqi Funds Could Exceed $18 Billion

Osama al-Nujaifi, the Iraqi parliament speaker, has told Al Jazeera that the amount of Iraqi money unaccounted for by the US is $18.7bn - three times more than the $6.6bn we reported last week. Al-Nujaifi is scheduled to visit the US soon and discuss the missing Iraqi billions. He said that he received a report […]

New Wells at Shell's Majnoon Field

In July, Shell will start installing 15 production wells and pipelines in the Majnoon oilfield in southern Iraq, Vice president and country chairman Hans Nijkamp told the website of Energy Exchange. It will also upgrade two degassing stations and build “a new central processing facility to include two new 50,000 bbl/d capacity early production systems”. […]

Iraqi Inflation Up Again in May

Iraq's core annual inflation rose to 6.3 percent in May from 6.1 percent in April, a senior official at the Central Bank of Iraq told Reuters on Sunday. The agency reports that the figure is driven by the cost of imported goods and services, especially healthcare. Inflation had previously risen from 5.5% in February to […]

Iraq Stock Exchange Ties Up with DirectFN

The Iraq Stock Exchange has announced that it has launched the dissemination of real time and delayed Iraq Stock Exchange (ISX) market data in conjunction with DirectFN, popularly known as Mubasher in the Middle East. The launch is part of the ISX plan to allow local and foreign investors to view real-time stock prices for […]

Emirates to Commence Services to Baghdad

Emirates will commence passenger flights to Baghdad from the 13th November 2011, marking the airlines’ second destination in Iraq. Operating four times per week Baghdad will be Emirates’ fifth international destination to launch in 2011 with Basra and Geneva already operational and Copenhagen and St Petersburg to follow on 1st August and 1st November respectively. […]

Kuwait Beverage Firm to Target Iraqi Market

Kuwait's Arabian Beverage Company (ABC), which distributes water, juice and dairy products in the Gulf region, plans to boost production and also aims to penetrate the Iraqi market this year, according to Reuters. The company, owned by Kuwaiti conglomerate Bukhamseen Holding [Bukhamsin], founders of Kuwait International Bank and Abu Dhabi listed First Gulf Bank, wants […]