Iraq Business News brings you the latest information on developments and opportunities in the construction & engineering industries in Iraq.
Hill International (NYSE:HIL), the global leader in managing construction risk, announced on Monday that it has been awarded a contract by the Iraq Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research to provide design management and construction management services for the new Al Bayaa Teaching Hospital in Baghdad, Iraq. The three-year contract has an estimated value […]
Siemens has announced that it has won a major order from the Iraqi Ministry of Electricity to supply the control and instrumentation system, field equipment, and spare parts for steam turbine generators for Iraq's largest power plant at Al Mussaib [Musayyib]. The upgraded plant will be more reliable, and will have higher output and increased efficiency. […]
Iranian carmaker Saipa is to build a car assembly plant in Iraq. The factory will have capacity to output as many as 120,000 cars per year if operated around the clock. Iran has developed its domestic car industry for five decades and produced 1.6 million vehicles last year, about half of them made by Iran […]
Iraq's Deputy Oil Minister, Ahmed al-Shamma, said the country wants to gradually privatise its oil refineries and to attract investment in new plants. "We would like to see the private sector increase its role ... You shouldn't have the ministry of trade buying and selling commodities; it's out of date .., We are looking to complete […]
French engineering group Alstom signed a 50 million euros contract to rehabilitate a gas-fired power station in Iraq, reports Reuters. Alstom will work on two units of the Khor Al Zubair station in the southern city of Basra, adding 60 MW to the power supply. The first unit will be reconnected later this year and […]
Iraq's deputy oil minister, Ahmed Shamma (pictured), told the Iraq Refinery conference in London on Tuesday that the FEED (front end engineering and design) of Iraq's 140,000 barrel a day Kerbala refinery will have to be changed to reduce the fuel oil output of the proposed plant, reports Dow Jones. The Kerbala plant, one of […]
Azzaman reports that the holy city of Najaf has turned into a hub for foreign investments, mainly in areas of housing and tourism, as numbers of foreign pilgrims to the city surge. The head of Najaf Investment Commission, Wafi al-Bahhash, said an estimated $7 billion had been invested, adding that his commission granted new licences […]
Iraq's Ministry of Construction and Housing is looking at ways to privatise their PMCM (Project and Contract Management) by bringing in an international consulting form to supervise the extensive construction works that are running and planned over the next 24 months. “We want to look at getting a company to contract in Project Management staff […]
The Director General of the Private Transport Section of the Ministry of Transport, Mr. Abdullah Laibi, outlined the opening of the new $14 million passenger terminal adjacent to Karbala airport. Designed to ease congestion between Najaf and Karbala, the new 2,000 car parking facility integrates accommodation, restaurant facilities making access to the airport for pilgrims […]
Bloomberg reports that Jordan’s Aphrodite Trading Company has won a $240 million [285 billion Iraqi dinar] contract to build 2,500 housing units in the city of Tikrit in northern Iraq. Jawhar Hamad, the president of Salahuddin Investment Commission, told the agency that the project will be completed within three years. The province needs 19,800 residential […]
Iraq's Minister for Housing and Construction, Mohammed Sahib al-Darraji, spoke to Gavin Jones for Iraq Business News: The Ministry of Housing and Construction is responsible for building over 2 million houses between now and 2015, as well as several thousand kilometres of highway and several dozen schools, hospitals and various other infrastructure projects; it's a […]
The Iraqi government has awarded contracts worth $199 million to two construction companies to build 2,000 homes in the southern provinces of Thi Qar [Dhi Qar] and Muthanna, reports Bloomberg. Markez Inc., an Iraqi-American company incorporated in Maryland, but with no contact address on its website, secured a $139 million deal to build 1,000 homes […]
