$3.2m Allocated to Service Projects in Erbil
3.8 billion Iraqi dinars [$3.2 million] has been allocated to a number of service projects in Erbil, its Governor, Nawzad Hadi, said on Saturday. “A local contracting company embarked on works to pave 22-km-long roads in Arbil al-Jadida area, eastern Erbil, at a cost of 1.3 billion dinars, earmarked from the Provincial Development Budget for […]
Unfinished Business: An American Strategy for Iraq Moving Forward
The Brookings Institution in Washington DC has issued a new report entitled "Unfinished Business: An American Strategy for Iraq Moving Forward". Ignoring the gratuitous use of the term 'moving forward' in the title, it's a thought-provoking read. The executive summary is shown below, and the full report can be downloaded from the Brooking Institution by […]
MOL Shares Up Following Iraqi Kurdistan Report
MOL Hungarian Oil and Gas has informed the markets that, further to its recent notification on 8 November 2010 on the test results, it has submitted the Discovery Report on the Bijell-1 exploration well to the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. As previously announced, 3,743 bbl/d 13° API oil and […]
Cornerstone Laid at Shatt al-Arab Canal Project
Iraq's Minister of Water Resources, Abdul-Latif Jamal Rashid, has laid the corner stone for the 350 billion dinar [$300m] Shatt al-Arab Canal project, aimed at pumping pure water for Basra Province and irrigation water for 250,000 donums of agricultural lands, according to a report from Aswat al-Iraq. Iraq’s Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, had launched a […]
Salahaddin University Gets New German Dept
The head of Germany's academic exchange service this week signed an agreement in Erbil with Salahaddin University to establish a German Language Department at the university. Dr Dorothea Rüland, Secretary General of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), came to Erbil to make the agreement and gave a keynote address at an academic conference attended […]
Turkish and French Companies Most Active in Iraq
An economic adviser in the Iraqi government said on Friday that, of all countries having companies operating in Iraq, Turkey is the best represented, followed by France. Salam al-Quraishi told AKnews that there are now 270 Turkish companies operating throughout Iraq, mostly specialized in construction of residential complexes and providing electrical power. "French companies are […]
Wrestling with the Integrity of a Nation: the Disputed Internal Boundaries in Iraq
The disputed internal boundaries in northern Iraq between the Kurds and the Arabs have been a persistent fault-line in the state's history and have rapidly emerged as a core dispute since the 2003 invasion of Iraq. According to a report from Peter Bartu at Chatham House, the Kurds underwrote, more than any other constituency, the […]
CT Business Travel Runs Its First Trade Mission to Erbil
CT Business Travel, a leading UK business travel agent which recently opened an office in Iraq, has successfully hosted its first trade mission in Erbil. CT Business Travel, an expert in corporate travel is the UK’s largest organiser of trade missions, organising and managing up to 3 trade missions every week of the year in […]
United Nations to Discuss Iraq's Chapter VII
The United Nations Security Council will hold a high-level event on 15 December on the subject of Iraq, which will be chaired by United States Vice President Joe Biden, and attended by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the US permanent representative to the United Nations announced today. The event will be “an important opportunity for the international […]
Heritage Oil Kurdistan Presentation
Heritage Oil Plc (LSE: HOIL), the independent upstream exploration and production company, has announced that it is hosting an investor day on Saturday in Erbil, Kurdistan Region of Iraq ("Kurdistan"). The purpose of the day is to provide attendees with more detail on the Company's operations and strategy in Kurdistan and a presentation will be […]
Preparations Finalised at Halfaya Oilfield
Companies investing in the al-Halfaya oilfield finalized the construction of residence camps and the setting up of drilling equipment to embark on the project on Dec. 15, according to the Missan Oil Company director on Friday. “The consortium of Chinese, Malaysian and French companies investing in al-Halfaya oilfield, 25 km [15 miles] east of al-Amara […]
Iraq And The Security Of Energy Supplies For Europe
By Ahmed Mousa Jiyad. This article was first published by Middle East Economic Survey (MEES), and is reproduced here with permission. It is a summary of Mr Jiyad's presentation to the Politics and Economics of European Energy Security conference organized by the Institute for Energy, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, in Amsterdam on […]