By John Lee. Italy's Saipem has been awarded a contract by ExxonMobil Iraq Limited for the DS6 project for the debottlenecking of the West Qurna field, in the south east of Iraq. Debottlenecking is a process that optimises a plant in order to increase its overall capacity. The works will have a duration of 23 […]
By John Lee. An investigation by Fairfax Media -- publisher of The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald newspapers -- and The Huffington Post, claims that Monaco-based Unaoil has been involved in widespread bribery and corruption in the oil industry, including in Iraq, Iran and Libya. Following examination of tens of thousands of emails, the report says that Unaoil […]
By John Lee. The Wall Street Journal and Reuters report that Iraq has shortlisted 12 international companies to build the new $18-billion oil export pipeline to Jordan, the country's first such pipeline in decades. Iraq's oil ministry has chosen these companies from a list of more than 80 international firms which submitted their credentials to build […]
By John Lee. The Chief Executive Officer of Italy's Saipem has said that the company is negotiating a contract worth around $1 billion in Iraq. According to Reuters, Pietro Franco Tali (pictured) said on a conference call that the negotiations could be finalised by the end of the year. Iraq Business News believes the contract […]
Reuters reports that Petrofac has won a $95 million contract to carry out maintenance work for Iraq's new offshore terminals and sub-sea pipelines at the Gulf. The contract involves maintenance work to ensure there are no leakages in the pipelines or any faults at the two new single point mooring (SPM) terminals that may delay […]
Iraq has announced the names of foreign companies bidding to build a $1 billion, 1,500 megawatt, power plant in western Iraq, according to a report from Reuters: South Korea's Hyundai Engineering & Construction; Italy's Saipem; Greece's Metka; Turkey's Gama; and, a consortium of Turkey's Calik Enerji and Italy's Techint. The plant will consist of six units: […]
Fairstar Heavy Transport N.V. (FAIR) has been awarded a contract by Saipem S.p.A. to provide float-over and installation services to Saipem for the 8,000 tonnes CMMP Platform in the Persian Gulf, off-shore Iraq. Saipem has contracted the new 50,000DWT semi-submersible vessel FINESSE for the transportation of the CMMP module from the fabrication facility in Karimun, […]
Iraq's deputy oil minister, Ahmed Shamma (pictured), told the Iraq Refinery conference in London on Tuesday that the FEED (front end engineering and design) of Iraq's 140,000 barrel a day Kerbala refinery will have to be changed to reduce the fuel oil output of the proposed plant, reports Dow Jones. The Kerbala plant, one of […]
Iraq's cabinet announced that it had approved a $998 million oilfield service contract on Tuesday with a South Korean company for the West Qurna 2 oilfield, according to Reuters. While the memo did not name the company, Samsung Engineering was the only South Korean company on the final shortlist. Iraq and its partners, Russia's Lukoil […]
Iraq's South Oil Company has awarded Italy's Saipem the EPIC contract for the Iraq Crude Oil Export Expansion Project – Phase 2, within the framework of the expansion of the Basra Oil Terminal (ABOT), off the Al Faw Peninsula in the Arabian Gulf, approximately 550 kilometres south-east of Baghdad. The contract encompasses the engineering, procurement, […]
Italian firm Saipem, a subsidiary of oil group Eni, has been awarded a $469 million contract to expand oil export facilities in the southern port city of Basra, according to a report from AFP. The agency quotes government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh as saying that the company has to complete the project within two years of […]
Reuters reports on Wednesday that Iraq has awarded a $472 million contract for an oil export facility expansion and sub-sea pipeline to the Italian group Saipem, a subsidiary of oil group Eni. Saipem will build a single point mooring buoy (SPM) with an export capacity of 900,000 barrels per day and construct a 50-kilometre pipeline […]
