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GE (NYSE: GE) has signed a contract with Iraq’s Ministry of Electricity to supply an advanced fuel oil treatment technology, FuelSolv, to help enhance the reliability and productivity of the Al-Quds power plant on the outskirts of Baghdad. “The Al-Quds power station provides much-needed electricity for Iraq and GE’s innovative gas turbine technology and fuel […]
Committees don't just sit around in Iraq. On 19th October the Iraqi government created a committee to increase business and economic relations with Turkey. Now, a member of the committee has said that the two countries are going to increase commercial exchange up to $12bn in 2011, reports AKNews. This is a more than three-fold increase on previous […]
Karbala's local government has signed a contract with a Danish company to install five new electrical generators in the province. The head of the Strategic Planning and Constructing committee, Abbas Nasser Hassani told AKnews that a delegation from Karbala local government signed the contract with Danish company Simko, which has offices in Turkish capital, Ankara. […]
Basra's Council approved an energy project worth 288 billion dinars [$246m] on Thursday, a vice president of the Basra council told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. “The council approved during its regular session an energy project to establish four generating units with a production capacity of 400kv (sic) at the al-Najiebiya electricity plant,” Ahmad al-Salieti is […]
Karbala Council has issued an appeal to its citizens not to pay the new domestic electricity tariffs introduced by the Ministry of Electricity this month, according to AKnews. The head of Karbala’s energy and fuel commission, Zuhair Samil al-Da’mi, told the agency that the ministry’s ten-fold increase was “completely unfair” in the light of the […]
Reuters reports that French engineering group Alstom has signed a 20 million euro ($27.83 million; 33 billion iraqi dinars) contract with Iraq on Monday to rehabilitate a unit at one of its power plants. Alstom, maker of industrial power plants and high-speed trains, said in a statement it would rehabilitate a unit at the gas-fired […]
The Kurdistan Regional Government has decided to construct a large dam in the village of Aqhoban in the Hiran region, in the district Shaqlawah [Shaqlawa]. The Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources has allocated more than six billion dinars for the project, which will be implemented by the two companies; work will start in the […]
The city of Karbala in central Iraq has stretched its 90bn-dinar budget ($75m) to hundreds of investment projects and has now been granted another 12bn dinars ($10m) by Iraq's Finance Ministry. As our blogger Stewart Blair wrote this month: "UAE property developers/investors have been active in the south where mixed use developments in Karbala are springing up […]
Aswat al-Iraq reports that 250 generators have arrived in Maysan [Missan] to improve the power network in the province. “Fifty generators arrived in Missan on Friday (Oct. 15) as part of the Iraqi government’s $100-million grant to the province,” Hussein Aziz, media spokesman for the Missan electricity department, told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. “The province […]
AKnews reports that 400 electrical generators have been imported from Iran. Salam Arab, the director of the customs department at Haji Omaran (pictured) , told AKnews that since the beginning of 2010 some 400 full-size electricity generators have been imported into the Region. He added most electronic equipments are imported from Iran, not Turkey, because […]
Iraq is to get new power plants in order to boost its energy capacity by 2,500 megawatts, reports Reuters. This will significantly add to its meagre total current production, which is around 5,500 megwatts. All the contracts for the 20 gas turbines, which were bought from General Electric, have been awarded to three Turkish companies. The contracts are […]
The Iraqi Industry Ministry signed a contract with a Lebanese firm to supervise the start-up of a gas-fueled power station in the al-Hurriya city, northern Baghdad. “The station’s start-up work will take three months,” the ministry said in a statement on Thursday as received by the Aswat al-Iraq news agency. It noted that the firm […]
