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Jordan’s Ambassador to Iraq Mohammad Taisir Masadeh last week met President Masoud Barzani, Prime Minister Barham Salih and ministers in Erbil to assess the latest developments and pave the way for a Jordanian consulate to open soon in the Kurdish capital. President Barzani and Ambassador Taisir discussed strengthening cooperation and coordination between the Kurdistan Regional […]
Dr. Abdulmalek Al-Jaber, CEO of Zain Jordan, part of Kuwait's Zain Group, has announced the full hook-up of its network to neighbouring Iraq via an optical fibre cable, Kuna has reported. The Jordanian network has been linked to the Iraqi network using an optical fiber cable that continues to Baghdad, he said. "The hook-up enables […]
Asim Jihad, a spokesman for the Iraqi Oil Ministry, said the Iraqi government has demanded Jordan pay back a credit of $114m for purchasing Iraqi crude oil during 2003-6, adding Jordan has demanded to increase Iraqi crude oil import to 30,000 barrels per day (bpd). According to the report from AKnews, during the period from […]
With unrest in several Arab cities, many in the region are worried about the risk of contagion. The latest flashpoints are Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, Jordan and Algeria; but is Iraq vulnerable as well? The people certainly have a lot to complain about. Electricity The heat and increased use of air conditioning put a major strain […]
The Chairman of Anbar Province’s Council has called on the Iraqi government on Saturday to invest in al-Risha oil field with, shared between Iraq and Jordan, and to lay down clear steps to exploit the field. “We call on the Iraqi government and the Oil Ministry to expoit al-Risha Oil Field on the Iraqi side […]
Iraqi State Minister, Ali al-Dabbagh, said Iraq agreed to build pipelines across its shared border with Jordan to increase supplies of oil to its western neighbour, according to a report from Bloomberg. The countries also agreed to discuss development of the Risha natural-gas field along their common border, the minister told a news conference in […]
"A tanker truck that unloaded the oil it was carrying from Iraq in the special zone located in 'no-man's land' on the border between Iraq and Jordan caught fire due to an explosion, causing a fire that affected 19 other trucks," a Jordanian security official told AFP. Police report that two people were killed, between […]
The Iraqi Oil Ministry said on Friday that Iraq's oil exports to Jordan have reached a post-invasion peak of 12,000 barrels per day. Assem Jihad, the ministry spokesman, told AKnews that the Oil Ministry is seeking to increase its oil trade with Jordan in line with the size and economic importance of Amman in the […]
The deputy chairman of Basra's local council, Ahmad al-Sulieti, met representatives of the Jordanian al-Barq company to discuss the possibility implementing projects in the energy sector, according to a statement of his office reported by Aswat al-Iraq. (Source: Aswat al-Iraq)
Iraq wants to sell five decrepit Iraqi Airways planes stranded in Jordan since Saddam Hussein's 1990 invasion of Kuwait, BusinessWeek reported on Tuesday. Fearing strikes on Baghdad's airport, Saddam sent the planes to Jordan for protection when it became clear a U.S.-led coalition would attack Iraq to force it to relinquish Kuwait. Aqeel Hadi Kawthar, […]
Jordan is hoping to triple oil imports from neighbouring Iraq to help meet domestic demand, the Jordanian energy minister, Khalid Irani, has said. The country currently imports almost all of its energy needs, and has asked Iraq to increase supplies of crude transported by truck from the current level of 10,000 barrels a day to […]
Iraq exported around 320,000 barrels of oil to Jordan during August 2010, according to Aswat al-Iraq. “The transportation process by trucks is going very well,” a source told the news agency on Thursday. He referred to a high-level of coordination between Iraq and Jordan to facilitate the oil transportation process. (Source: Aswat al-Iraq)
