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The Province of Karbala is negotiating with Hyundai Motors regarding the construction of mobile electricity plants to serve areas suffering most from blackouts, according to a report from Azzaman. Governor Amaludeen al-Hir said the two sides were discussing building several generators powered by fuel oil, that can withstand the country’s tough weather conditions, particularly the […]
The head of the Basra Investment Commission, Eng.Haidar Ali Fadhil, has announced details of the Faw [Fao] power station: The station will have a capacity of 50 megawatts; The project shall be open for investment companies; Interested companies are required to visit the BIC offices by 12th June; The power station is intended to use […]
A delegation from Kahlid Group in the United Arab Emirates has revealed intentions to invest in a refinery in Dhi Qar, Iraq, capable of processing 300,000 barrels per day, according to Aswat Al-Iraq. The request is still to be submitted to the Iraq Ministry of Oil, but the project should involve work placements for 6,000 people. […]
Korean company STX Heavy Industries has signed an agreement today to install 25 power plants to generate a total of 2,500 megawatts in Iraq, according to a report from Bloomberg. “This is a big event as the company will be establishing 25 plants in a region ranging from the southern city of Basra to the […]
South Korea’s Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co. has started work on a $219 million project to expand a gas-fired power station near Baghdad, Bloomberg has reported. The Al-Quds station located in a suburb northeast of the capital will increase production to 1,400 megawatts from 900 megawatts withing 18 months, according to Qais al-Waeli, a spokesman […]
By Ronald P Verdonk, Agricultural Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. In my last piece I made mention of a sizable irrigation equipment purchase by Iraq’s Ministry of Agriculture and underscored the role the private sector needs to play to contribute to the revitalization of the agricultural sector. In this edition of the blog, […]
Wassit local government has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Indian company BHEL (Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited) to build a 500 MW power station, according to a report from Aswat al-Iraq. Taha Rudaini, a member of the local government's Media Committee, told the news agency that the station will be powered by diesel (black […]
A Turkish company has been contracted to set up four new power stations in Nineveh province at an overall cost of $200 million [240 billion Iraqi dinars], a provincial energy official has announced. Muhammed Wadallah al-Jabbouri from the Nineveh directorate of energy told AKnews that the Turkish firm Lanka has been given the task of […]
Iraq's Deputy Premier for Energy, Hussein al-Shahrestani, laid the foundation stone for the new 1250 megawatt al-Khairat power station in Karbala, which will add about 20% to power production in Iraq if completed as scheduled in April 2013. Iraqi energy officials on Sunday marked the start of work on a 1,250 megawatt power plant with […]
Reuters reports that Iraq's electricity ministry has signed a $1 billion [1.2 trillion Iraqi dinars] deal with China's Shanghai Electric on Monday to nearly double the size of a power plant south of Baghdad. The plant in the town of Zubaidiya was initially intended to have four 330 MW generators, giving a total capacity of […]
Six companies, including the world’s biggest power-grid supplier, ABB Ltd, have been selected to bid to develop a power plant in western Iraq, according to a report from Bloomberg. Lanco Infratech Ltd. (LANCI) of India, Techint Group of Italy, Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co. from Korea, as well as Turkish and Iraqi companies were preselected […]
Iraq's Ministry of Electricity announced on Tuesday the experimental launch of a number of electrical units in the al-Sadr gas station. According to the report from AKnews, the plant is operated by the Iranian company Snair (which Iraq Business News believes to be Sunir). The ministry’s media spokesman, Musab al-Mudarres, told AKnews that the station […]
