A Turkish firm has won the contract for the $88 million (105 billion Iraqi dinar) Grand Kut water project, according to a report from Aswat al-Iraq. Sobeih Lafta, the assistant governor for technical affairs in Wassit, told the news agency that the project is intended to end water scarcity in the city. The project, with […]
The head of the One Stop Shop Department in Basra Investmetnt Commission (BIC), Eng. Jalal Al- Noori, announced that the Turkish company Visalr has submitted an investment project to build private schools in Basra. He said the education sector is a top priority for the BIC, and that Basra has suitable lands allocated for such […]
RW [Rotondo Weirich], through its division in United Arab Emirates, RW Middle East, has built the first modular precast concrete villa, located in Samawah City, Al Muthanna Governorate, Southern Iraq. This 2,500 ft2 villa demonstrates the technology and benefits of fast track precast modular concrete construction versus other methods of residential building in the gulf […]
Former oil ministers from OPEC nations Iraq, Algeria, Libya and Nigeria have established a group to offer advice on energy policy and business strategy. Issam Chalabi (pictured), Shokri Ghanem, Chakib Khelil and Rilwanu Lukman, former oil ministers of Iraq, Libya, Algeria and Nigeria respectively, set up the alliance following a meeting in Vienna in February. […]
According to AKnews, Anbar council has taken a court action against Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister and Energy Minister, Hussein al-Shahristani (pictured), for not agreeing to a proposed investment in what it calls 'metal phosphate cement plants' in the province. The Deputy PM did not approve the project and instead referred it to the Ministry of […]
ExxonMobil has reportedly reached an agreement with Baghdad to be paid in oil for work on the huge West Qurna-1 oilfield. According to the report from Reuters, foreign oil companies involved in Iraq's oil expansion generally prefer to be compensated for capital expenditure and service fees in oil, because cash payments are more complicated to […]
AKnews reports that Iraqi Kurdistan will be able to produce 400,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil by the end of the year, an increase of 128% from current 175,000 bpd. "The successful policies of the KRG has made it possible for the region to start from scratch and is now capable of produce […]
Leading international well flow management company Expro has secured three further contract wins in Iraq. The trio of contract awards adds to the recent contract success with ENI. Expro will undertake analysis of more than 100 PVT studies in a contract award with Gazprom in the Badra field situated close to the Iranian border. Gazprom […]
Qatar Airways has announced further expansion of its rapidly-growing international network with five new passenger routes, more cargo services and capacity increases to a number of destinations served direct from the airline’s Doha hub. Among the new routes are two new destinations in Iraq – the northern city of Erbil and capital Baghdad. Both routes […]
Three sports stadiums are set to be built in Baghdad under plans announced by Kamel Braihi, the director of the engineering and technical department in Iraq's Ministry of Youth and Sports, reports AKnews. He said the three stadiums, to be built to international standards, will be constructed in Sadr City, Rusafa and Tajiyyat. The contract for […]
The Iraqi Oil Ministry announced on Sunday that it sdecided to implement a deal made with Jordan in August to raise the level of oil production to between 10,000 and 15,000 bpd. Falah al-Amiri, the Director General of SOMO, the State Oil Marketing Organization, told AKnews that the Iraqi government decided to form a committee […]
Gulf Keystone has just issued an update on its ongoing exploration and appraisal programme in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, which includes the Shaikan block, a major discovery with independently audited gross oil-in-place volumes of between 8 billion barrels to 13.4 billion barrels calculated on the P90 to P10 basis, with a mean value of […]
