Iraq has approved the deal under which Kuwait Energy would replace Turkey’s state-owned Turkiye Petrolleri AO (TPAO) on the Block-9 exploration contract. Abdul-Mahdy al-Ameedi, director of the ministry’s contracts directorate, ...
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Waitrose has ended its advertising tie-up with cook and TV personality Delia Smith but said it will continue to work with celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal. The upmarket UK retailer signed a three-year deal with the two chefs in 2010, ...
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Recently,the five 8th China Flower Expo Steel Bridges undertaken by Baosteel Engineering Steel Structure Department are open to traffic.This means that Baosteel has formed a complete industrial chain from drawing design,bridge production to ...
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The Platts February LNG Japan Korea Marker ended the Asian trading week at $17.40/MMBtu, up from Monday's $17.15/MMBtu, on the back of sustained demand stemming from cold weather in the Far East. Low temperatures across North Asia boosted ...
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PTI reported that Larsen & Toubro Hydrocarbon has secured an offshore contract valued at INR 781 crore from Oil and Natural Gas Corporation. A company statement said that the contract, won against international competitive bidding, ...
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Mumbai has one of the most crowded and overloaded suburban systems in the world.Concerned about the capacity constraint on the Corridor,Ministry of Railways has decided to augment the system capacity and has accordingly envisioned a two ...
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To reduce carbon emissions, Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs has begun promoting an LED street lamp replacement project. The plan originally was scheduled to switch 250,000 units of mercury street lamps to LED lamps in 2012 and to ...
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Eastman Kodak has told a bankruptcy court that it is exploring alternatives to the auction of its digital imaging patents, including keeping the patents and setting up a licensing company to repay creditors. Kodak filed in June a motion ...
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Whitehall departments spearheading moves to break up large system integrator contracts into separate'towers'have seen a dramatic drop off in suppliers bidding to co-ordinate the multiple providers. Under the tower model the government ...
Heavy Equipment and Farm Equipment Auctioneers in Canada have found success in 2012 Thanks to NextLot Inc's Online Bidding Platform. NextLot's online bidding software has been monumental in transforming heavy equipment and farm equipment ...
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The Ministry of Defence awarded CSC a £303m contract after learning of allegations the supplier was involved in the illegal rendition and torture of German citizen Khaled El-Masri. The department dismissed the allegations as ...
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The Government Digital Service (GDS) is rolling out open source content management system Drupal, according to one of its suppliers. GDS is also looking at integrating a Drupal function that will allow it to spin out new government sites ...
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By Christine van den Toorn. This article was originally published by Niqash. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. One of the most peaceful towns in Iraq, near ...
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Hewlett-Packard is extending its 3PAR enterprise storage offerings with an all-SSD version of the P10000 array. The all-SSD (solid-state disk) version, announced on Monday and available immediately starting at US$350,000, is designed to ...
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A US congressional committee has reported that Chinese telecommunications equipment providers Huawei and ZTE pose a security threat to the US, following a year-long investigation. A draft of the report from the House Intelligence ...
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