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By John Lee. The Iranian Deputy Oil Minister Javad Oji (Owji, Ouji) (pictured) has announced that the country will start exporting 40 million cubic meters (mcm) a day of natural gas to Iraq by summer 2013. Iran's PressTV reports that an agreement has been reached to supply Iraq via two separate routes. Construction of the “friendship” pipeline […]
By Padraig O'Hannelly. In 1987, management guru and writer Tom Peters wrote that the formula for success was to under-promise and over-deliver -- in other words, to manage expectations. We can only hope that this maxim was in the mind of Iraq's Minister of Electricity, Abdulkarim Aftan [Karrem Aftan al-Jumali]., when he spoke this week about […]
Iraqi press sources claim that the Ministry of Electricity has ceased dealings with the German company Siemens and all its subsidiaries, due to the company not fulfilling its contracts. The spokesperson of the Ministry of Electricity, Musab al-Mudaris, reportedly said that Minister Kareem Aftan gave the instruction during a meeting with the South Korean company Hyundai […]
By Omar al-Shaher for Al-Monitor. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. As the hot weather sets in, promises to provide round-the-clock electricity are making headlines in Iraqi news programs and newspapers. This comes after the hardships Iraqis have undergone in recent years […]
Siemens Turkey and Japan’s Toyota Tsusho are to build 24 electricity distribution centres in Iraq, in a deal worth $81 million. Hurriyet Daily News reported that the two companies signed a deal to join forces in the transformer station project, which have a total capacity of 31.5 megawatts. Siemens will manufacture the products in both […]
By John Lee. The Basra Gas Company (BGC) -- a joint venture between the state-run South Gas Company (SGC), Shell and Mitsubishi -- is processing around 400 million cubic feet per day (mcfd) of gas, and is on track to treat 2 billion cubic feet per day by 2017. SGC general director, Ali Khudhier, told […]
Iraq has plans to generate 400MW of its electricity from renewable energy sources by 2016, according to a report from MEED. Speaking at MEED’s Iraq Energy Projects Conference in Dubai, Rafah Mohammed, from the energy production office at the Ministry of Electricity, said this would be about 2 per cent of the country’s total power […]
By John Lee. Iraq's deputy prime minister for energy affairs, Hussein al-Shahristani, has opened a new gas-powered electricity plant in southern Baghdad. The plant has four 125-megawatt generators and cost $219 million to build, he said. Iraq Business News understands that the plant was constructed by the Korean company Hyundai. (Source: Al-Shorfa)
By John Lee. As part of its effort to improve the national grid, Iraq has rehabilitated an old power plant in Nassiriyah. Built in the 1970s, the plant is one of the largest in Iraq, but was in need of modernisation. Electricity Ministry spokesperson Musaib al-Mudaris said it took Iraqi technicians three months to repair, […]
By John Lee. A project to generate electricity from solar energy and wind in 15 remote Iraqi cities is now under way, according to a report from Al-Shorfa. Ministry of Electricity spokesman Musaab al-Mudarres told the news agency: "Iraqi companies have already started building integrated complexes for solar cells and towers to generate electricity from […]
By John Lee. AIN reports that Iraq has approved the construction of a new power station in Maysan province. The head of the Provincial Council, Abdul Hussein Abdul Reda, said that the country’s Ministry of Planning had approved a scheme to build a station of between 200 and 250 Megawatts. Iraq’s Ministry of Oil and […]
By John Lee. Electricity minister Kareem al-Jumaily has announced that Iraq will achieve electricity self-sufficiency by the end of this year, "except the problem of transporting the power from the stations to the cities". In an interview with Arabia TV station, he said Iraqi power production will jump to 13,000 MW before the coming summer. […]
