Iraq has allocated 100 billion Iraqi dinars ($86 million) for a project that aims to bring skilled expatriates back to Iraq in 2013, reports Mawtani. The Ministry of Migration and the Displaced announced last week that these skilled ...
Tags: Iraq, Iraqi dinars, 2013
Reuters has reported that BP will undertake work to arrest declining production at the Kirkuk oilfield, in a move that has outraged the Kurdistan Regional Government. Abdul Mahdy al-Ameedi, head of the oil ministry’s Petroleum ...
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The Kurdistan Regional Government is proud of the achievements of its oil and gas industry since the fall of the former regime in 2003. It expects the federal government of Iraq to be proud of them, too. Since oil exports from the ...
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During the panel discussion at the SteelOrbis Market Talks Meeting held in Izmir this week, Sami Altin, general manager of Ozkan Demir Celik, outlined the measures the company has been taking to help mitigate the risks faced in volatile ...
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Scientists at Imperial College London are set to receive over £4.5 million of public funding to investigate how the 'super material' graphene can drive improvements in high-tech industries, such as aerospace design and medical ...
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During the panel discussion at the SteelOrbis Market Talks Meeting held in Izmir on January 16, Dr. Veysel Yayan, general secretary of the Turkish Iron and Steel Producers' Association (DCUD), informed participants regarding the performance ...
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During the panel discussion at the SteelOrbis Market Talks Meeting held in Izmir on January 16, Mehmet Zeren, general secretary of Turkey's Steel Pipe Manufacturers Association, said that Turkey ranks first in Europe and fifth in the world ...
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According to the European Steel Association (EUROFER), in November this year the flat steel exports of the European Union (EU) totaled 1.451 million mt, while EU long steel exports amounted to 985,000 mt. Accordingly, overall EU-27 finished ...
According to the data released by the Japan Iron and Steel Association (JISF), steel product orders, including specialty steels, booked by domestic steel consuming sectors in Japan in November 2012 amounted to 7.2 million metric tons, ...
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US Federal Reserve data Wednesday showed that industrial production increased 0.3 percent in December after having risen 1.0 percent in November when production rebounded in the industries that had been negatively affected by Hurricane ...
The Metals Service Center Institute (MSCI) reported Wednesday that US service centers shipped more than 2.5 million tons of steel products in December 2012. This represents a decrease of 14.4 percent from December 2011. For 2012, steel ...
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According to the latest data regarding crude steel production in France released by the French Steel Federation (FFA), in December last year French crude steel production amounted to 971,700 metric tons, down by 12.5 percent year on year ...
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On January 16, Zhejiang Province-based Chinese steelmaker Hangzhou Iron & Steel Group Company (HISGC) announced that its sales revenue and net profit in 2012 totaled RMB 91.281 billion ($14.6 billion) and RMB 803 million ($128.7 million) ...
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The Canadian National Railway Company (CN) and the Indiana Rail Road Company (INRD) announced Wednesday an agreement on the construction of an intermodal terminal in Indianapolis and their plan to offer Indiana importers and exporters an ...
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The US Department of Commerce (DOC) announced that it has rescinded the administrative review of carbon and certain alloy steel wire rod from Mexico for the period from October 1, 2011, through September 30, 2012. Nucor Inc. had ...
Tags: carbon aalloy steel wire, certain alloy steel wire rod, US DOC