Iraq Business News brings you the latest information on developments and opportunities in the construction & engineering industries in Iraq.
A Scottish manufacturer of prefabricated buildings has embarked on a major push into the Middle East as it targets construction projects in countries such as Libya and Iraq. Powerwall, which runs a ten-acre production site in Wishaw and employs about 80 staff, is also locked in talks with potential partners in a string of markets, […]
Turkey and Iraq have agreed to open two new border crossings to boost trade and accommodate increasing traffic between the two neighbors, according to a report from Today’s Zaman. The issue was discussed during a two-day visit by Iraqi Foreign Affairs Minister Hoshyar Zebari to Ankara on Wednesday. The formal agreement for the opening of […]
The Director General of the South Oil Company said on Wednesday that they plan to build a fifth floating oil pier when the four currently under construction are completed. Aswat al-Iraq reports that the four piers are expected to be finished by late-2013 or early-2014. The first of these piers will start exporting oil at […]
The U.S. State Department plans to deploy 16,000 civilian employees in Iraq, the Washington Post reports. And while the U.S. military is supposed to be out of Iraq by the end of the year, the two governments are trying to negotiate an agreement for a small training force to remain. But those forces will be […]
Iraq has the fourth largest oil reserves in the world exporting approximately 96% for the country’s economy, in 2010 100’s of contracts were signed to develop Iraq’s oil and gas infrastructure and increase oil production. Over the last year contract holders have implemented intense geological surveying, drilling, well rehabilitation, security tightening and planning to develop […]
The following article was published on Saturday 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. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq […]
The planning commission of the provincial council of Baghdad announced the construction of an industrial city of approximately 2,000 donums (500 hectares) in the Nahrawan area, south of the Iraqi capital. According to AKnews, the project will be built by the Iraqi company Majd al-Ard, and will cost around $250 million USD (293.3 billion IQD). […]
Tenders are invited for Build Local Road of GRD Jutyar Village Which is 2,175km Long. The deadline bidding date is October 17, 2011.
Tenders are invited for Demolition and Rebuilding Of Thi-El Noorein Primary School-12 Classes/ Mahmoudiya Kakh Education Directorate/2. Please note that the deadline date will be October 23, 2011.
Tenders are invited for Constrution of a school 18 Classes Jisr Diyala (Rasafa Education Directore/2). The Bidding deadline will be October 23,2011.
Iraq's three mobile operators are unlikely to conduct initial public offerings until the middle of next year and will not be penalised for missing an August 2011 deadline, the country's regulator said on Thursday, according to a report from Reuters. Under the terms of the 15-year, $1.25-billion, operating licences they secured in 2007, Korek, Zain […]
Iraq has awarded a $523 million [612 billion Iraqi dinar] contract to expand oil export facilities in the south of the country to Leighton Offshore, a subsidiary of Australian firm Leighton International, according to AFP. Leighton is the Australian unit of Germany construction group Hochtief. The project must be completed within 16 months and will […]
