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Nineveh signed more reconstruction project contracts with international firms in the past financial year than any other Iraqi province, said the provincial governor on Sunday. Athiel al-Nujaifi told AKnews that a total of 44 companies from around the have undertaken major reconstruction projects in the province in the fields of tourism, industry, public services and […]
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 […]
The local government in Ninewa signed a deal with a Turkish company on Wednesday to build a gas-fired electricity generating plant. The plant will generate 750 Megawatts, a source from the Ninewa governor's office told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. “The $388 million-deal aims to improve the electricity in the province,” he noted. (Source: Aswat al-Iraq)
Angolan oil company Sonangol started work on Thursday at the Najma [Najmah] and Qaiyara [Qaiyarah] oil fields in Ninewa, and it will start to dig wells in April, according to a report from Aswat al-Iraq. In the second licensing round in 2009, Sonangol was the only company to submit bids for these fields. In both […]
Iraq is preparing to issue a tender for a $388.5 million power plant, according to a report from Bloomberg. Ali Al-Dabbagh, a spokesman for the government, said on Tuesday that the Council of Ministers approved the plan to issue a tender for the plant in the Nineveh province, north of Baghdad. The plant should be […]
A bomb attack in the northern province of Nineveh halted oil flow through the Iraq-Turkey pipeline, which carries a quarter of Iraq's crude exports, a spokesman for Iraq's oil ministry said on Wednesday. Reuters, quoting Oil Ministry spokesman Asim Jihad, reported that the attack occurred on Tuesday night, but oil flow is expected to resume […]
The head of Nineveh Investment Commission has said that a German company plans to develop German-style housing complexes in Mosul, 405 km north of Baghdad. Muafaq Mahmud told AKnews that the German company Markina signed an investment contract with the investment board in Mosul and work is scheduled to begin on the housing complexes in […]
The Chairman of Nineveh Council said this week that a preliminary agreement has been signed with a British company to plan the reconstruction of areas badly damaged by bombing in the Iraqi war. Jaber Abed Rabbo told AKnews that the deal will ensure that the reconstruction of the province conforms to the latest standards of […]
Nineveh Investment Commission announced this week that it had signed investment contracts with two German companies to build tourist facilities on the banks of the Tigris River. Jabor Abed Rabu, Chairman of the Commission, told AKnews that the companies involved are Zalmania and Backmana, but the value of the contracts were not disclosed. "The two […]
A housing project called Ayn al-Iraq, consisting of 20,000 residential units at a total cost of $2 billion, was announced during a ceremony at the Ninewa International Hotel in Mosul city, according to a report from Aswat al-Iraq. “The mega project is being implemented by 57 Iraqi and foreign companies at a cost of $2 […]
Northern Iraq’s Batna Oil Field in Nineveh Province has resumed production after 20 year stoppage, an official at Nineveh Oil Comission said on Tuesday, The official expressed the hope that production would exceed 2,000 barrels per day (bpd). “The comissioning of Batna Field, one of the oil fields in northwest Mosul’s Zummar town, stopped more […]
A branch of the Project Management Institute (PMI) in the Arab Gulf was opened in the city of Mosul, to make a qualitative leap in managing projects, Ninewa's governor said on Wednesday. “The PMI opened a branch in the city of Mosul with around 120 engineers and administrators,” Atheel al-Nijiefi said at the 2010 development […]
