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Gulf Times
March 28, 2018
Iraq is seeking bids from six companies for an estimated $4bn project to inject seawater into its southern oil fields to dislodge more crude from the deposits, Ihsan Abdul Jabbar, the director-general of state-run Basra Oil Co, said in an interview. The country has already received bids from five companiesÃÂ ...
Iraqi News
March 9, 2018
Alsumaria News quoted Qahtan al-Obaid, head of the antiquities and heritage department in Basra province, saying that the search, launched in cooperation with Basra University, will target a British ship that “sank at an unknown location in Shatt al-Arab during World War I, with priceless artefacts on deckÃÂ ...
Borneo Bulletin Online
March 8, 2018
But after years of digging for victory, he and his comrades have now turned their skills to civilian use: gouging out irrigation channels for farmers in the southern province of Basra. “What I'm doing makes me happy,” he said, with gelled hair glimmering above his sun-browned face. In 2014, Ali and tens ofÃÂ ...
The Economist
March 8, 2018
Much of the focus is on Basra, which is Iraq's richest province. Projects earmarked by the Saudis for investment include Basra's moribund petrochemical plant, which could help wean Iraq off Iranian products. Saudis have also eyed the scrub along the border, which the kingdom wants to turn into fertile fieldsÃÂ ...
Rudaw
March 7, 2018
Aged 23 at the time, Ali left his parents and his work as a day labourer in the province of Babylon, south of Baghdad. As he knew ... Ali joined other Hashd engineers and drivers heading to Basra – an overwhelmingly Shiite province with more oil resources but poorer infrastructure than any other province.
Khaleej Times
December 31, 1999
Authorities in Basra, the capital of Iraq's richest oil province, are struggling to provide the bare minimum of services to its inhabitants, as nepotism and corruption divert lucrative revenues from the black gold. But the southern port city's "golden age" was not all that long ago. At 71, Khalaf remembers it well.
The Daily Star
December 31, 1999
Of all Basra's traditional buildings and shanasheel, “today about 400 are left more or less intact,” according to Qahtan al-Obeid, head of archaeology and heritage in Basra province. Where there once stood a Jewish library, a women's hammam and the home of a Kuwaiti sheikh, locals say, all that remainsÃÂ ...
Platts
December 31, 1999
--Iraq's largest refinery, in Basra province, is planning for a fourth unit to come online by the end of 2018, increasing capacity to nearly 300,000 b/d. ... --Iraq opened a downstream tender on October 23 hoping to attract engineering and construction companies to build a new refinery in Basra province.
Anadolu Agency
February 23, 2018
In a related development Friday, anti-terrorism units carried out wide-ranging security operations in the Al-Zubair district of Iraq's southern Basra province. The stated aim of the operation -- now in its third day -- is to “confiscate unlicensed weapons and arrest wanted individutals”, Lieutenant MohamedÃÂ ...
Iraqi News
February 21, 2018
Musaab al-Madras was quoted saying in a press statement that “the ministry signed with the Kuwaiti side a memorandum of understanding for the import of electricity from Kuwait during a visit by a Kuwaiti delegation to Basra province”. He added that “during the next period, power pylons will extend alongÃÂ ...
Al-Monitor
February 15, 2018
Abadi's instructions came days after tribal conflicts in Iraq's southern provinces broke out over agricultural land water quotas, prompting activists in the province to launch a campaign titled Save the Tigris in a bid to end the water crisis. There are already conflicts plaguing those provinces — especially BasraÃÂ ...
The Times
February 14, 2018
The scheme involves having to get the course approved and the amount available depends how long you have served. Burrows received ã2,000 a year for three years. “I had to defer sitting my last exams to deploy to Helmand province in 2012 — but I took the equity and land law textbooks to Afghanistan,”à...
Financial Tribune
February 12, 2018
Araqi noted that the infrastructure to send gas to Basra will soon be established for meeting the needs of both Basra and Baghdad gas export deals. The Iraqi government approved a deal in late 2017 to import gas from Iran to the eastern border province of Diyala, increasing purchases of the Iranian fuel,ÃÂ ...
Kuwait News Agency
February 11, 2018
In April 2016, over 1,350 displaced families in the city of Basra, southern Iraq have been recipients of food aid distributed by Kuwait in its ongoing ... (IICO) through the campaign 'we are with you' managed to accumulate over USD one million in aid for displaced Iraqis in Anbar and Salah Ad'Din provinces.
Trade Arabia
February 11, 2018
The other refinery projects are a 150,000-bpd refinery in the Anbar province and a new Al Nasiriy refinery in Thi Qar province with a production capacity of 150,000 bpd. Iraq also plans oil storage facilities in the provinces Basra, Mosul, and Saladin. The government will probably find investments into the oilÃÂ ...
Middle East Monitor
February 10, 2018
The Iraqi government yesterday sent hundreds of its troops, backed by armoured vehicles and tank, to the country's southern province of Basra to restore security and law following an increase in tribal conflicts in the region. The Basra Operations Command, Lieutenant Colonel Mohammed Khalaf, said thatÃÂ ...
IHS Jane's 360
February 1, 2018
IHS Markit's Conflict Monitor recorded a 427% increase in intra-tribal fighting in the southern province of Basra for January, representing 58 incidents, compared with the previous month's 10 incidents. On 31 January, the Tribal Directorate of the Ministry of the Interior announced plans to bring together allÃÂ ...
Kurdistan24
January 26, 2018
Al-Sudani, who holds British citizenship, was a member of the Islamic Dawa Party led by former Prime Minister and current Vice-President of Iraq, Nouri al-Maliki. He was born in Iraq's Basra Province in 1947 and went into exile in Britain in the late 1970s. He received a doctorate in Biochemistry from the University of WalesÃÂ ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
January 22, 2018
It pertains to the Nahr Bin Omar field in energy-rich Basra Province. It now produces 40,000 barrels of oil a day, but the Orion deal will look to exploit the site's gas assets as well. Iraqi officials have been in talks with U.S. energy giant Exxon and Chinese companies over further developing oil production atÃÂ ...
Asharq Al-awsat English
January 20, 2018
In the north of Basra province, "bullets talk," he told Agence France Presse. ... Haydar Ali, a 34-year-old engineer, suggested deploying soldiers and policemen from other provinces "who have no social relations or tribal ties that could affect ... The tribal disputes have a direct impact on Basra's economy.
The New Arab
January 19, 2018
... provinces "who have no social relations or tribal ties that could affect their role". Residents have called on security forces to confiscate weapons, but regular raids have had little impact on the vast numbers of arms circulating in the province. Tribes in Basra, the only province of Iraq with access to the sea,ÃÂ ...
Rudaw
January 18, 2018
Haydar Ali, a 34-year-old engineer, suggested deploying soldiers and policemen from other provinces "who have no social relations or tribal ties that ... Tribes in Basra, the only province of Iraq with access to the sea, obtained a glut of weapons when the army of the late Saddam Hussein withdrew fromÃÂ ...
Kurdistan24
December 31, 1999
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan 24) – A dust storm on Sunday hit Iraq's oil-rich province of Basra, with hospitals recording at least 14 cases of suffocation and ... The floods caused by the heavy rain affected many provinces in the central and southern regions of Iraq, damaging roads and infrastructure in some areas asÃÂ ...
Kurdistan24
December 31, 1999
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan 24) – The Jordanian government on Monday approved a deal with the Iraqi federal government to build two oil and gas pipelines connecting the neighboring countries, Jordanian state-run news agency Petra reported. The pipeline would stretch from the province of Basra to Aqaba inÃÂ ...
The New Arab
December 1, 2017
Kirkuk and Nineveh provinces are the most worrying cases. In Kirkuk it's still unclear, more than a month after Baghdad re-took control, how the province, a potential ethnic powder-keg, will be administered. "Politically Kirkuk looks to be up in the air," Iraq analyst Joel Wing told The New Arab. "The PUKÂ ...
Asharq Al-awsat English
November 30, 2017
The Basra Operations Command seized a container loaded with 80 million narcotic pills in the southern port of Umm Qasr, which was labeled the largest ... The latest shipment of smuggled pills highlights the magnitude of the challenge facing Iraq in general and the southern provinces in particular, as the ...
Al-Arabiya
November 28, 2017
Eight of the fields are located in the southern and eastern provinces of Basra, Missan, Muthanna, Wassit and Diyala, while the ninth is offshore ...
Arab Times Kuwait English Daily
November 27, 2017
The blocks on offer are located in the provinces of Basra, Misan, ... to resume from the northern province of Kirkuk to neighbouring Turkey, the ...
Nasdaq
November 27, 2017
The blocks on offer are located in the provinces of Basra, Misan, Muthanna, Wasit and the Central Diyala province. The contracts will be ...
The Guardian
November 25, 2017
I'm currently working in Iraq down in Basra province at the two thousand-year-old city of Charax Spasinou, founded by Alexander the Great in ...
Al-Monitor
November 19, 2017
BASRA, Iraq — Shiites around the world celebrated the Arbaeen ... a member representing Christians on the Basra Province Council, told ...
Petroleum Economist
November 14, 2017
The field in question is Majnoon, the Arabic word for crazy. Situated in oil-rich Basra province, southern Iraq, and operated by Shell with a 45%Â ...
Anadolu Agency
November 14, 2017
In early July 2017, hundreds of state-employed teachers demonstrated in Iraq's southern Basra province to protest delays in the payment of ...
Center for Research on Globalization
October 24, 2017
... desert highways in Iraq's western Anbar province where US military ... which is one of Iraq's vital economic lines as it connects Basra in the ...
Eurasia Daily
October 23, 2017
... region in territories of the PUK-controlled provinces: entire Sulaymaniyah, ... to seek autonomy of Basra province, absolute Shiite and Arabic.
Hindustan Times
October 22, 2017
The increase in Basra exports keeps Iraq's total output within the quota ... province, claimed by both the Kurds and the Iraqi central authorities.
TASS
October 17, 2017
... claiming that they are still in control of the main oil fields in the province. ... in southern Iraq, 65 km northwest of the major port city of Basra.
The Interpreter
October 17, 2017
... oilfields and airport in the province of Kirkuk, a region the Kurds took ... British the three Ottoman Provinces of Mosul, Baghdad, and Basra.
Arab News
October 10, 2017
A worker walks at Nahr Bin Umar oil field, north of Basra, Iraq, in this ... were suspended in June 2014 when Daesh overran the two provinces.
Tanker Shipping and Trade
October 9, 2017
Now known as Basra, the former Atlantas tanker is owned by Greek ... last voyage to the port of Umm Qasr in Iraq's southern Basra province.
Iraqi News
September 24, 2017
... against a restaurant on the road between Dhi Qar and Basra. ... Baghdad was the most affected province with 45 deaths and 135 injuries.
NRT
September 20, 2017
BASRA – Worsening clashes among Shia tribes coupled with the absence of top ... the tribesmen in their fightings in Basra and some other southern provinces.
Rudaw
September 19, 2017
Your provinces in the south are desperate for that money. ... Karbala, Basra and other southern provinces, but I doubt much has changed since ...
Platts
December 31, 1999
... latest downstream tender October 23, hoping to attract engineering and construction companies to build a new refinery in the Basra province.
HuffPost
December 31, 1999
This resource-rich yet underserved Iranian province—situated across the border from Iraq's Basra province—is home to approximately two ...
Iraqi News
December 31, 1999
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Fourteen Saudi Arabian companies will partake in the upcoming energy and industry fair in Iraq's southern province ...
The Guardian
December 31, 1999
I'm currently working in Iraq down in Basra province at the two thousand-year-old city of Charax Spasinou, founded by Alexander the Great in ...
Iraqi News
December 31, 1999
Basra (IraqiNews.com) Two children were killed as a landmine left ... Dhi Qar province came in the second place with 82 killed and 93 injured.
WorldOil
December 31, 1999
Bloomberg reported in March that the Iraqi oil ministry was in talks with ExxonMobil to develop Ratawi and Omar fields, in the southern province of Basra.
Egypttoday (blog)
December 31, 1999
BAGHDAD - 14 October 2017: Authorities in Basra of Iraq threatened on Saturday they could announce their province a region if the central ...
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