Ugur Dalbeler, chairman of IREPAS, the global association of producers and exporters of long steel products, as well as CEO of Turkish steelmaker Colakoglu Metalurji, has said that in 2013 the main problem in the steel industry will ...
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Metito, a leader in intelligent water management solutions, has won a $6.8 million deal for a water treatment plant in Iraq. The company has signed an agreement with F&B Investment for the design, build, selection and supply of all ...
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Iraq’s Cabinet has authorized the Oil Ministry “to sign an agreement of principles” on two key oil and natural gas pipeline projects, reports Platts. The agreement will be between the Iraqi Oil Ministry, the Iranian Oil ...
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The statistical report released by the General Administration of Customs of Damascus shows that in the first 11 months of 2012, Syria’s car imports were not over 2,019 and revenue was not over 93 million Syria pounds. Auto imports in ...
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President of Iraqi Kurdistan, Masoud Barzani, hosted foreign diplomats and representatives of international organizations based in Erbil last week to discuss the latest political and economic developments in Kurdistan and in Iraq and to ...
A Canadian think tank called on Tuesday for continued scrutiny of U.S. security vendor Blue Coat Systems after a new technical analysis showed wide use of its products in countries with human rights and censorship concerns. The Citizen ...
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A spokesman for Iran’s Oil Ministry has confirmed that Iran is planning to build a pipeline to carry natural gas to Iraq and Syria. Alireza Nikzad Rahbar told Iran’s PressTV on Wednesday: “Based on agreements already ...
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Iran’s Oil Minister, Rostam Qasemi (pictured), says his country is expected to start exporting natural gas to Iraq by the end of the next Iranian year (to start March 21, 2013), reports the Iranian news agency PressTV. Last year, ...
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The Iraqi cabinet has expelled Turkey’s state-owned Turkiye Petrolleri AO (TPAO) from the consortium that was granted the rights to explore energy block 9, and has asked Kuwait Energy to take over the shareholding. Abdul Mahdi Al ...
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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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ONGC, which had hired Citigroup, RBS and Standard Chartered to rate the bond issue, will use proceeds to fund the acquisition of stakes it bought in the Azerbaijan oilfields late last year. The company had bought US energy company Hess ...
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Iraq is still considered Jordan’s best market for exports ahead of Saudi Arabia, India and the United States, according to the Amman Chamber of Industry (ACI). According to ACI statistical report, Jordanian exports to Iraq by the ...
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The U.S. on Thursday said it ordered sanctions against Iran's Minister of Communication and Information Technology, Reza Taghipour, and other entities and persons responsible for engaging in censorship in their country. Taghipour is ...
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While analysts are generally in consensus in forecasting Brent crude to average around $110/b in 2013, the surge in North American production and question marks on the timing of new infrastructure has made for a highly divergent set of ...
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Students at a military graduate school in California are mining social media with new methods that may change the way the armed forces collect intelligence overseas. Students and researchers at the Naval Postgraduate School have tackled ...
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