Aberdeen City Council to Encourage Energy Investment in Iraq
Aberdeen City Council has announced a new initiative to encourage North-east companies to explore business opportunities in Iraq. Upper Quartile, an Edinburgh-based economic development consultancy, will manage the programme, which will target the oil and gas sector, academic institutions and other contractors. Seminars will be held over the coming months to inform firms of the […]
Asiacell steps up Service with HP Solution
Mobile telecom operator Asiacell has streamlined its business processes to improve services to its 8 million subscribers across Iraq with a business service management solution from HP. HP Business Service Management software gives Asiacell’s IT team full visibility of the company’s IT infrastructure, applications and services as a single integrated platform that can be tracked, […]
KRG Welcomes Delegation from Veneto Region of Italy
The Kurdistan Regional Government’s Head of Foreign Relations Minister Falah Mustafa Bakir today welcomed to Erbil his counterpart from the Veneto Region of Italy. Minister Bakir and the KRG’s Representative to Italy Ms Rezan Kadir together met Dr Diego Vecchiato, the Director of the Department of International Relations of the Veneto Regional Government. On his […]
Iraq Scraps Wheat Tender, Plans to Buy Rice
Bloomberg reports that Iraq has cancelled a tender for 50,000 metric tons of wheat. and is now inviting bids to buy 30,000 tons of rice from South America. Amer Abdel Aziz, spokesman for the country’s Grain Board, did not give a reason for the cancellation of the wheat tender when he spoke by phone to […]
Iraq Stock Market Report
Rabee Securities Iraq Stock Exchange (ISX) market report (week ending: 15th September 2011). Please click here to download a table of listed companies and their associated ticker codes. The RSISX index ended the week at ID1,641 / $1,820, -1.1% (weekly change). The number of weekly traded shares was 2.9bn and the weekly trading volume was […]
The Oil-Law Showdown
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. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. […]
Supply of Welding Tractor and Filling Pumps
SCOP announces a new tender for supplying a welder tractor (twin arc) 400 A QT.(10) for second strategic pipeline . The country of origin for the materials should be American and the manufacturing year should not be less than 2011. Please click on this link for further information. As well SCOP announces the issuance of […]
Iraq Tagged: ' Middle Income Fragile Country'
By T. Keyzom Ngodup, co-founder and Executive Director at Ideas sYnergy www.ideas-sYnergy.net, an Iraq based private sector development consulting company. IRAQ INSIGHTS, published by Ideas sYnergy aims to consolidate and build intellectual capital on private sector development, empowering stakeholders to address issues of access and structural reforms on a diverse range of topics impacting inclusive […]
IBN Interviews Dr Ali al-Dabbagh - Part 2
Minister Ali al-Dabbagh, Iraqi Government Spokesman, was interviewed by Padraig O'Hannelly for Iraq Business News at last week's Iraq Mining 2011 conference in London. The first part of the interview can be found here. In this second part of the interview, Dr al-Dabbagh discusses the Hydrocarbon Law, the valuation of the Iraqi dinar, foreign investment […]
Iraq 'Very Close' to Buying F-16s
Iraq is reported to be "very close" to signing a letter of intent to buy up to 36 Lockheed Martin F-16 jets, according to Bloomberg. Major General Russ Handy, a senior U.S. Air Force general in Iraq, told reporters at the Pentagon that Iraq would buy a first installment of 18 aircraft, with a potential […]
Iraq: Untapped Opportunities
The Middle East Association, supported by the National Investment Commission of Iraq, UK Trade & Investment and Allurentis, is pleased to announce the 2011 Iraq Trade and Investment Conference, “Iraq: Untapped Opportunities”. This conference will take place at London’s Dorchester Hotel on 22nd November. The Deputy Prime Minister for Energy, Dr. Hussain al-Shahristani, will be […]
WesternZagros Announces Resources at Sarqala
WesternZagros Resources has announced that Sproule International Limited ("Sproule") has completed an independent audit of the Company's resource assessment for the Jeribe/Upper Dhiban reservoir interval of the Sarqala-1 well. Sarqala-1 is located in the Company's Garmian Block in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and was drilled on the crest of the Sarqala structure. Consequently, the […]