ISSUE 8                                                   THURSDAY     APRIL 5, 2011
Iraq oil ministry to review Shell gas deal next week The Iraqi cabinet’s energy committee has asked the oil ministry to review the economics of a $12 billion natural gas joint venture with Shell (RDSa.L: Quote) and Mitsubishi (8058.T: Quote), the country’s oil minister said. The ministry..
 

ISSUE 7                                                   THURSDAY    MARCH 27, 2011
Iraq is to construct more power plants to enhance its power-generation capacity by 2,750MW. Iraq Electricity Ministry spokesman Masaab Serri told Bloomberg that the government has plans to invite three more bids in 2011 to further augment the country's electricity generation capacity to 17,000MW by 2013.
 

ISSUE 6                                                   THURSDAY    MARCH 20, 2011
THE Iraqi government said yesterday it had reached an agreement worth $6bn with three foreign companies to install 50 diesel-fuelled emergency power generator stations across the country to help ease its acute power shortage. US-based industrial conglomerate Honeywell International has announced the opening of an office in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad to make equipment for Iraq's oil and gas industry. "We are committed to a full-scale presence in order to most effectively manage projects and build and nurture local relationships,"
 

ISSUE 5                                                   THURSDAY    MARCH 13, 2011
Iraq Iraqi economists pointed out that the inflation suffered by Iraq could last two decades, that is not an important financial corrections in the economic system. Bahaa al-Din Yassin, an economist for the Kurdistan News Agency (Rn) that “the inflation suffered by Iraq will continue until 2030 because of economic slack suffered by Iraq during the past years.”
 

ISSUE 4                                            THURSDAY    MARCH 6, 2011
The Wheat exports to Iraq jump 450 per cent in 2009 after decade of ups and downs, catching Ottawa’s attention Canada sold more wheat to Iraq last year than any other country except the United States, a tantalizing trade relationship that has piqued Ottawa's interest.
 

ISSUE 3                                          THURSDAY    FEBRUARY 24, 2011
Work The building of the Basra Sheraton, which has been in rehabilitation since six months, will be opened in mid Sept. 2010. “The rehabilitation project has been executed by a local firm at a total cost of $55 million,” a local media source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. He noted that the hotel will activate tourism in Basra.
 

ISSUE 2                                          THURSDAY    FEBRUARY 17, 2011
Iraq During its 13 th meeting held at the headquarters of the cabinet’s secretariat general today, a working paper prepared the deputy governor of the Central Bank of Iraq (CBI), Ahmed Barihi, on oil policies in Iraq has been discussed,” according to a statement released by the council.
 

ISSUE 1                                         THURSDAY    FEBRUARY 10, 2011
A The governor of Iraqi Central Bank Dr. Sinan al-Shabibi stated to (Al-Sabah paper) that the central bank has proved its ability to meet the disclosure of Iraq dinar and limit the deficit against the dollar due to the accumulation of Iraqi cash reserves, which exceeded 41 billion dollars, as stated in the conference of banking business, which held under the