Monthly Archives: October 2011
Iraq Aims to Join OPEC Quota System by 2014
| October 31, 2011 | Filled under Iraq Daily News |
Bloomberg reports that Iraq will ask to rejoin OPEC’s quota system for crude output in 2014. The holder of the world’s fifth-largest oil reserves plans to increased production from an average of 2.9 million barrels a day to 3.4 million barrels a day next year, and 4.5 million barrels a day in 2013, said Falah al- Amri, director of the State…
The Iraqi Oil Rush
| October 31, 2011 | Filled under Iraq Daily News |
The Iraqi Oil Rush The rush is on for exploration and production real estate in Iraq. Companies with promising licences, or existing operations, are clearly very desirable to potential investors, and so have had little difficulty tapping the markets for more funds. In recent weeks alone we’ve seen: WesternZagros Resources raise C$46 million from the Abu Dhabi National…
700 Soldiers Leaving the U.S. Base in Nasiriyah Imam Ali
| October 31, 2011 | Filled under Iraq Daily News |
The US military in Dhi Qar governorate that 700 of his troops and 100 military vehicles left the Imam Ali military base left for Kuwait, part of its preparations for full withdrawal from the country. He said US military spokesman, major Harold have in a press release: the countdown for the complete withdrawal of US troops stationed in the Imam…
Iraq Is Allocated 700 Million Dinars for the Rehabilitation of the Church of Deliverance
| October 30, 2011 | Filled under Iraq Daily News |
Baghdad, (Rn) – The Ministry of Housing and Construction for the allocation of 700 million dinars for the reconstruction of the Church of Our Lady of Deliverance, which stormed by gunmen late last year, confirming a radical change to the design of the church. Al Qaeda had entered the Church of Our Lady of Deliverance on October 31 last year…
Gaddafi Plotted Iraq Coup With Baathists
| October 30, 2011 | Filled under Uncategorized |
Tehran Times- When the Libyan capital of Tripoli fell, rebel fighters found secret intelligence documents linking Muammar Gaddafi to a plot by former members of Saddam Hussein’s military and Baath Party to overthrow the Iraqi government, according to an Iraqi official who spoke on the condition of anonymity as the matter was supposed to be confidential. Details of the…
Muammar Gaddafi, Osama Bin Laden, and Saddam Hussein Are Top Sellers This Halloween
| October 29, 2011 | Filled under Featured Article |
Halloween masks of Muammar Gaddafi, Osama bin Laden, and Saddam Hussein are offered for sale at Fantasy Costumes on October 28, 2011 in Chicago, Illinois. The store, which had long lines at the registers at 4 AM this morning, is open around the clock through Halloween to help keep up with customer demand. Retailers nationwide are expecting record sales…
Marin Subsea Team Secures Crucial Pipelines
| October 29, 2011 | Filled under Iraq Daily News |
Subsea excavation specialists Marin Group recently played a key role in clearing unexploded ordnance from the route of three new pipelines crucial to Iraq’s future oil exports, according to an article in Maritime Journal. Operating company Marin Subsea Ltd was contracted by UK based Maritime and Underwater Security Consultants (MUSC), which had been awarded overall responsibility for making safe the…
Echo Art Initiative for Iraq Benefits From Dubai Auction
| October 29, 2011 | Filled under Iraq Daily News |
Art The funds are going to Echo, a project founded by Rijin Sahakian, which begins an eight-month series of virtual workshops in Baghdad on November 3. Iraq’s foremost artists working abroad, whether in America, Australia or Amsterdam, will, twice a month for the eight-month period, guide, challenge and lecture in Arabic to a group of 10 students and transmit to…
Kurdish Work: More Than 42 Thousand Citizens Receive Salaries of Social Protection Network
| October 29, 2011 | Filled under Iraq Daily News |
Erbil, (Rn) – An official source at the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs province of Kurdistan, said that more than 42 thousand citizens receive salaries of social protection network in the region, noting that more than 20 thousand citizens benefit from the salaries of the network in the city of Arbil . The head of Information and the Ministry…
Spanish Group of Companies Plans to Build Sports Stadium and the City of Arbil In
| October 28, 2011 | Filled under Iraq Daily News |
Erbil, (Rn) – Prime Group of Companies (Anfrasa) Spanish, the group submitted a proposal to the Kurdistan Regional Government for the establishment of an international sports stadium and sports complex in the city of Arbil. The Oscar Garcia, told the Kurdish news agency (Rn) that “a group of companies (Anfrasa) Spanish consisting of seven Spanish companies large specialized field of…
Kurdistan Donates One Million Dollars to Turkey
| October 28, 2011 | Filled under Iraq Daily News |
ARBIL / Aswat al-Iraq: The Kurdish government today donated one million dollars to Turkey to help in the recovery effort following the quake, official sources said. The source told Aswat al-Iraq that the donation was to help in emergency assistance for the affected people by the earthquake that hit Turkey last Sunday. Turkish Crisis Authority announced today that the…
US Audit Traces Iraq’s ‘Missing’ Aid Billions
| October 27, 2011 | Filled under Featured Article |
WASHINGTON // A Pentagon audit resolved a lingering Iraq-war mystery, concluding that US$6.6 billion of US-controlled reconstruction money was transferred to the Central Bank of Iraq, not lost or stolen. The Coalition Provisional Authority, created by the US to run Iraq after the invasion, controlled more than $20.7bn (Dh76bn) during its 14-month life, including $6.6bn held when it was dissolved…
Russia’s Lukoil Starts Drilling in Iraq
| October 27, 2011 | Filled under Iraq Daily News |
MOSCOW, (UPI) — Russia’s private oil company Lukoil announced that it started drilling operations in the West Qurna-2 oil field near the Iraqi port city of Basra. “We have launched drilling, well borers are already there,” company chief Vagit Alekperov was quoted by Russia’s state-run news agency RIA Novosti as saying. Lukoil and Norwegian energy company Statoil won the…
Al-Iraqiya Demands Iraq’s Prime Minister to Stop Detentions
| October 27, 2011 | Filled under Iraq Daily News |
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Al-Iraqiya Coalition, led by former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, has called on Iraq’s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to stop the current detention campaign and the sacking of university professors, according to its statement. “Al-Iraqiya has met at the office of (one of its leaders,) Dr. Saleh al-Mutlag, to discuss the recent detentions campaign and the lists…
Iraq Begin Delivery of Rice, Harvest in Four Provinces
| October 27, 2011 | Filled under Iraq Daily News |
Baghdad, (Rn) – The Iraqi Ministry of Trade said it has started delivery of crop rice, farmers in the provinces of Najaf, Diwaniyah and Dhi Qar, Muthanna, unexpected production exceeded the current year of the crop from its predecessor, who scored 80 thousand tons. The agriculture sector has suffered in Iraq over the decades of wars, sanctions and neglect and…
Iraq’s Asiacell Picks Banks for IPO
| October 26, 2011 | Filled under Iraq Daily News |
Iraqi mobile telecoms firm Asiacell LLC, an affiliate of Qatar Telecom has picked HSBC and Morgan Stanley to manage an initial public share offer next year, four sources familiar with the process said on Tuesday. The company is currently converting from being a limited liability company to a shareholding corporation, the public offering isn’t expected until 2012, two of the…
Basra, Iraq’s First Add the Oil and Gas
| October 26, 2011 | Filled under Iraq Daily News |
Basra, An official source at the South Oil Company said Basra province will add to the end of this week’s conference on Iraq’s first oil and gas in the presence of government officials and delegations from several foreign companies. The source told the Kurdish news agency (Rn) that “the conference held by the Oil Ministry aims to discuss new ways…
Iraq: Dolarmen Recovery of 320 Million Cases of Corruption to the State Budget
| October 26, 2011 | Filled under Iraq Daily News |
Baghdad, (Rn) – The coordinator of the Prime Minister for regulatory affairs, that the offices of inspectors general in the ministries were able to recover $ 320 million. Said Adel Muhsin, told the Kurdish news agency (Rn) that “the $ 320 million the amount of money that was before the recall from the offices of inspectors general in the ministries…
Iraqi Oil Attributes the Reluctance to Develop Oil Fields in Diyala to the Deterioration of Security
| October 25, 2011 | Filled under Iraq Daily News |
Baghdad, (Rn) – The Ministry attributed the reason for the reluctance of Iraq’s oil development of oil fields located in Diyala, northeast of Baghdad to the unwillingness of the investment companies to enter the province because of security problems in it. And emphasizes the local government in Diyala incurred losses amounting to more than one billion dollars annually due to…
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