Aswat al-Iraq reports that citizens from Baghdad have called on public representatives to take salary cuts, as Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has done, to show their good will towards the poor. This comes as parliament prepares the federal budget draft law of 2011. As unrest sweeps the Middle East, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said […]
A U.S. Marine captain who last year pleaded guilty to skimming nearly $1.7 million from government contracts in Iraq was sentenced to six years in federal prison on Monday. Eric Schmidt, aged 40, of the First Marine Division, pleaded guilty in May to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and filing a false tax return with […]
Dubai-based Al Khaleej Sugar Co. is in talks to sell white, or refined, sugar to Iraq, said General Manager Cyrus Raja. “They are in dialogue with parties for buying sugar, including Al Khaleej,” Raja told Bloomberg. According to Sucden Financial, Iraq is in the process of buying 150,000 metric tons of white sugar from private […]
Iraq bought 300,000 metric tons of wheat from Australia and the U.S. last week, Reuters reports, citing traders in the Middle East. Iraq purchased 250,000 tons of the grain grown in Australia and 50,000 tons of U.S. wheat, according to the report. The government issued another tender for 100,000 tons yesterday. Traders expected Iraq to […]
Basra’s port of Umm Qasr received a shipment of more than 40,000 tons of rice on Sunday. According to the head of public relations at Iraq's ports department, Anmar al-Safi, the shipment was for the Ministry of Trade. “The ship Captain Hady from the Bahamas anchored at a quay in Umm Qasr with 40,045 tons […]
Iraq’s Ministry of Oil has issued a tender for the supply of a wide range of spares and chemicals for the North Gas Company in Kirkuk. Please click on the following links to download the tender documents. The items, in the order of closing date for receipt of bids: 16th February (3pm): spares for demineralization […]
The Ministry of Oil’s Training and Development Directorate has re-issued a tender for the supply and installation of a DocuWare document archiving system. Please click here to download the tender document. The revised closing date for receipt of bids is 12:00 noon on 13th March.
The Ministry of Oil's State Company for Oil Projects has issued a tender for a "supply and design control system (PLC)" for the Samawa depot. Please click here to download the tender document. The closing date for receipt of bids is 12:00 noon on 24th February.
The Ministry of Oil’s State Company for Oil Projects has issued a tender for the design, supply, and installation of a water intake and treatment system at its Aumara depot. Please click here to download the tender document. The closing date for receipt of bids is 12:00 noon on 23rd March.
According to a report from Reuters, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was misquoted as saying the central government in Baghdad would honour Kurdish production sharing oil contracts, The agency quotes Deputy Prime Minister with responsibility for Energy, Hussain al-Shahristani, as saying: "All the contracts we (the central government) have signed were service contracts and we […]
Oil production in Missan [Maysan] will reach 170,000 barrels per day by the end of 2011, compared to 2010’s production of 100,000 bpd, according to a director of the Missan Oil Company on Sunday. “The 70,000 barrels increase will come from the development of the Halfaya oil field and the drilling of new wells,” Ali […]
The following article was published by Reidar Visser, an historian of Iraq educated at the University of Oxford and currently based at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. It is reproduced here with the author’s permission. The opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. […]
