BP Awards $500mn Oil Services Contracts in Iraq
BP and partner CNPC have awarded $500 million drilling contracts to raise production from the Rumaila oil field.
Iraq Election Victory Has Potential to Turn to Ashes
The slender margin generated by Iyad Allawi, the slightly more secularist candidate , over the incumbent Prime Minister Maliki, has all the indications of turning to ashes.
U.S.'s Leedco Wins Iraq Airport Contract
Leedco Engineers Inc, the privately held Californian engineering consultancy, has won a $50 million contract for construction of an international airport in Iraq, Reuters reported on Tuesday. The airport is to be built in Salahuddine Province in northern Iraq as an alternative to Baghdad International Airport, said Jewher Hamad al-Fahel, the head of the province's […]
Italian Companies in Strategic Study of Water Resources
According to Eye media company, the Ministry of Water Resources announced that they will began negotiations with Italian companies on a strategic study of water and land in Iraq. According to a statement issued by the Ministry of Water Resources, the ministry announced that it was preparing a strategic study for long-term water resources. This […]
Indian Company Seeks to Invest in Wassit
An Indian company has expressed its desire to invest in Wassit, the president of the Wassit Investment Commission said on Monday. “A delegation from an Indian company expressed its interest in implementing investment projects in the housing and agriculture sectors,” Dr. Sattar Jaber told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. “The company presented a request to allocate […]
Baghdad Construction Projects
This month (March 2010), investment permits have been awarded to several projects in Baghdad including companies working in the fields of housing, tourism and hotels. “Eight investment permits have been given to a number of companies. Housing projects were given a priority,” the Investment Commission in Baghdad said in a statement received by Aswat al-Iraq […]
Combat Desertification Day
An official source in the Iraqi government on Monday, announced the Sixth of July of each year as National Day to Combat Desertification. A statement from the National Center, received by Eye Media, says the Cabinet decided to make the sixth of July, the National Day to Combat Desertification. It provides for the establishment of […]
Ban on Importing Vegetables from April 1
A ban on importing vegetables will be imposed throughout Iraq starting from April 1, 2010. “The ban is part of Iraqi Agriculture Ministry’s policy to support local production,” the Ministry said in a release on Monday received by Aswat al-Iraq news agency. It said that the ban would help Iraqi farmers get a financial returnt […]
Call for Nuclear Body to Include Iran, Iraq
Arab and international experts at a meeting in Manama on Sunday proposed the establishment of a regional atomic energy body to include Iran and Iraq alongside the Arab monarchies of the Gulf. The meeting on nuclear technologies, in a final statement, said the new body could be fashioned along the lines of the International Atomic […]
Basra Jail needs water
Basra Governor, Sheltagh Abboud al-Mayah, discussed on Monday with a delegation from the U.S. Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT). “The meeting tackled ways of providing the Basra central jail with water until completion of the al-Bahadriya project,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. “The governor suggested fixing five U.S. generators in the former presidential palaces […]
Italians to Study Water / Land
Iraqi Water Resources Ministry has started negotiations with Italian firms to carry out a strategic study of Iraq’s water and land. “The study will be into Iraq’s future water policy,” the Ministry said is a release on Monday received by Aswat al-Iraq news agency. It said that the study will consider different factors including environmental […]
First Rice Ship for Umm Qasr
The Iraqi port of Umm Qasr received on Monday for the first time a ship carrying rice for the Trade Ministry, the public relations and media director at the State Company for Iraqi Ports said. “The Panamanian ship arrived at the port carrying 40,000 tons of rice within the ration card contracts,” Anmar al-Safi told […]