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Pathfinder Trade & Invest (PTi) with the support of the Kurdistan Regional Government and UKTI, invite you to join a High Level Trade Mission from the 17th– 21st June to Erbil. This Mission will be of interest to those companies in the following sectors: Financial services and Insurance, Education and Training, Construction and Construction Supplies, […]
Pathfinder Trade & Invest (PTi) invite you to attend a Kurdistan Business Seminar kindly sponsored by DLA Piper UK LLP at their offices situated at 3 Noble Street, London EC2V 7EE, on 28th May 2012 from 10.00 am to 12.30 pm. Whilst many events in the Middle East have cast a shadow over the region, […]
A large delegation of US Congressional staff visited the Kurdistan Region last week to meet with government officials, local businesses and schools, and to get a first hand view of how US-KRG relations can be further developed and improved. "This was the first Congressional staff delegation of its kind and size to the Kurdistan Region," […]
President Barzani yesterday welcomed US Ambassador to Iraq James Jeffery and Chief of the Office of Security Cooperation-Iraq General Robert Caslen in Salahaddin to discuss the current political crisis facing Iraq. Both sides underlined the importance of urgently resolving the current crisis through constitutional means and by respecting the existing agreements between the political blocs. […]
The battle for Iraq’s oil goes on. Iraqi Kurdistan is intent on controlling its own oil, Baghdad is intent on wresting that control from them. Will the impasse ever be solved? Only if both sides see reason, one commentator argues in this article from NIQASH. Ever since oil was found in Iraq nearly a century […]
President Masoud Barzani this week paid an official visit to the United Arab Emirates to strengthen political, economic, cultural and investment ties between the Emirates and the Kurdistan Region. The President had meetings with the Prime Minister and Vice President of the UAE and constitutional monarch of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashed Al-Maktoum, and the […]
By Michael Aron, Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Iraq. This article was originally published by Rudaw, and is re-published with permission by Iraq Business News. Rather than the usual one or two day visit to Erbil, I have just spent a week in Kurdistan Region travelling to Suleymaniya, Dohuk, Soran and Shanidar. What a […]
Levels of violence fell in Iraq last week following a spate of al-Qaeda attacks the previous week which killed dozens of people. Nonetheless, conditions were still relatively bad. At least 47 people were killed and 65 injured in nationwide incidents. Tactics A suicide bomber in Ba'qubah killed 10 people and injured 15 mid-week. Otherwise a […]
Afren plc announced on Wednesday several senior technical management appointments for its operations in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. Appointment of Managing Director Afren MENA Afren announces the appointment of Mr David Kennedy as Managing Director Afren MENA, who will assume responsibility for Afren's operations in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, including the major Barda […]
Genel Energy has issued the following update on its operations at the Chia Surkh block in Kurdistan: On 16 January 2012, Genel Energy plc ("Genel Energy") announced that it had entered into transactions with Forbes & Manhattan (Kurdistan) Inc. (a subsidiary of Longford Energy Inc.) ("F&M") and Petoil Petroleum to increase Genel Energy's interest in […]
Iraq's the deputy head of the parliamentary security and defence committee, Iskander Witwit, has told Reuters that Iraq will take delivery of the first 24 of 36 F-16 fighter jets it has ordered from the United States at the beginning of 2014. He said the first 24 planes would make up two air force squadron, […]
In its preliminary results announcement on Thursday, Irish oil and gas exploration company Petroceltic made the following statement on its operations in Iraqi Kurdistan: Petroceltic has been considering making an investment in the highly prospective Kurdistan region of Iraq for several years. We were attracted by the prospective geology of the region, in the shape […]
