Genel Energy, DNO Deal for Summail Gas
By John Lee. Genel Energy and DNO International have signed a Gas Sales and Purchase Agreement with the Kurdistan Regional Government to supply gas from the Summail field in the Dohuk licence in the...
View ArticleDNO Shares Hit New Record
By John Lee. Shares in DNO International, the Norwegian oil and gas company with significant interests in Iraqi Kurdistan, were trading up 5.4 percent on Thursday morning after the company announced...
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Genel Releases Full Year Results
Genel Energy has announced its preliminary audited results for the year ended 31 December 2013: Results summary KRI export pipeline infrastructure complete and in the commissioning phase. Volumes of...
View ArticleFirst Natural Gas Arrives at Duhok Power Station
The Kurdistan Regional Government has announced the successful delivery via pipeline of the first quantities of natural gas from the gas field at Summail to fuel the Duhok Power Station (pictured). The...
View ArticleDNO: Tawke Production Hits 120,000 bpd
By John Lee. DNO International ASA (“DNO”), the Norwegian oil and gas operator, today announced that production from the Tawke field in the Kurdistan region of Iraq reached 120,021 barrels of oil per...
View ArticleGE’s to Provide Turbines to Iraq
GE (NYSE: GE) has signed a contract with ENKA to supply power generation equipment for a new 750-megawatt (MW) combined-cycle plant being developed by Qaiwan Group in Iraq. GE will provide four 9E gas...
View ArticleRains Causes Flooding in Refugee Camps
By John Lee. Heavy rains have reportedly flooded refugee camps in Dohuk, where an estimated 100,000 Iraqis, mostly Assyrians and Yazidis, are living having fled from the Islamic State. According to a...
View ArticleVideo: Refugees Replace Students in Classrooms
From Al Jazeera. Any opinions expressed are those of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. The conflicts in Iraq and Syria have disrupted the education of...
View ArticleAngelina Jolie: The World Must Do More
The UN refugee agency’s Special Envoy Angelina Jolie is in Dohuk, Iraq, visiting Syrian refugees and displaced Iraqi citizens in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq to offer support to 3.3 million displaced...
View ArticleShell Staff Raise Money for AMAR
Shell Iraq staff dug deep into their own pockets to raise money for the AMAR International Charitable Foundation. They collected almost £10,000 ($14,700), which Shell management generously agreed to...
View ArticleIOM Aids Construction IDP Camp
Over 500 families have moved into the newly opened Shekhan camp for internally displaced people (IDPs) in northern Iraq over the past week and hundreds more will move in in the coming days. The camp...
View ArticleUNDP Donates Sanitation Tankers to Dohuk
The UN Development Programme (UNDP) today donated three dislodging tankers to local authorities in Dohuk, Kurdistan Region of Iraq, to improve WASH services in a governorate, which contends with one of...
View ArticleFamily-run UK Firm Wins first Iraq Order
A family-run UK company which makes window and door restrictors has won its first order in Iraq. Jackloc‘s products will be installed at the Sheraton Dohuk Hotel in Iraqi Kurdistan, which opened...
View ArticlePM Barzani Praises Role of Private Sector
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani hailed the private sector for its effective contributions to the Kurdistan Region economy since approval of the Investment Law in 2004. Prime Minister...
View ArticleGenel Energy Outlines 2016 Plans
By John Lee. In its trading update this morning, Genel Energy gave the following plans for its operations in Iraqi Kurdistan: The majority of planned activity and capital expenditure in the KRI is...
View ArticleOpening of the American University of Duhok
The American University of Duhok has been officially opened in a ceremony held on Tuesday. The ceremony was attended by Kurdistan Region President, Masoud Barzani, Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani,...
View ArticleGermany Donates EUR 4m to Boost Community Policing
The Federal Republic of Germany has donated EUR 4 million to IOM Iraq to support its “Strengthening Community Policing in Iraq” project between March 2016 and December 2017. By supporting community...
View ArticleDuhok launches Provincial Development Strategy
The Governorate of Duhok launched its Provincial Development Strategy 2016-2018 in a ceremony organized in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the European Union (EU),...
View ArticleBronze Age City discovered in Northern Iraq
Archeologists from the Institute for Ancient Near Eastern Studies (IANES) at the University of Tübingen in Germany have uncovered a large Bronze Age city not far from the town of Dohuk in northern...
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Genel Energy Shares Slide on Lower Production Forecast
By John Lee. Genel Energy has issued the following trading and operations update in advance of the Company’s full-year 2016 results, which are scheduled for release on 30 March 2017. In the statement...
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