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Iraq Enhances Energy Portfolio with Hadab Completion
Iraq International News Agency
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July 1, 2025
Under the patronage of the Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Affairs and Minister of Oil, the Oil Exploration Company has successfully completed the 2D “Hadab” seismic survey programme in Nineveh Governorate. The project, carried out by the 8th...
Iraq denies disruption at Baiji refinery after drone incident
Shafaq News
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2025-07-01T10:30:40+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Saladin On Tuesday, Iraq’s Ministry of Oil denied reports that production had been suspended at the Baiji refinery in Saladin province following a drone incident near the...
Vallourec wins OCTG supply contracts for drilling operations in Iraq
Offshore Technology
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July 9, 2025
Premium tubular solutions provider Vallourec has won two significant contracts to supply Oil Country Tubular Goods (OCTG) to CNOOC and PetroChina for their drilling operations in Iraq. These agreements, valued at more than $130m, will provide a...
Iraq probes attacks on Kirkuk Airport, Baiji refinery
Shafaq News
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2025-07-01T06:49:10+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Baghdad/Erbil/Kirkuk/Saladin Iraqi security authorities have launched an official investigation into coordinated attacks that struck Kirkuk International Airport and the...
Trump hits Iraq with 30% tariffs as he releases 7 new letters
Global News
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July 9, 2025
President Donald Trump sent out tariff letters to seven smaller U.S. trading partners on Wednesday with a pledge to announce import taxes on other countries later in the day. None of the countries targeted in the first batch of letters — the...
DQOC Boosts Production with Integrated Development Plan
Iraq Business News
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July 7, 2025
By John Lee. The Dhi Qar Oil Company (DQOC) has launched a comprehensive production plan to develop three key oil fields in Iraq's Dhi Qar province: Nasiriyah, Saba [Subba], and Garraf [Gharraf]. General Manager Sa'id Zgair Shalaka told the...
Rasheed Bank Launches Solar Energy Loans
Iraq Business News
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July 7, 2025
By John Lee. State-owned Rasheed Bank has launched specialised loans for purchasing renewable energy systems, specifically solar panels, with financing provided directly by the Central Bank of Iraq (CBI). The initiative allows citizens and public...
Iraq's golden opportunity: A new dawn for regional influence
Shafaq News
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Shafaq News In the wake of the 12-day confrontation between Israel and Iran, which ended in a regional ceasefire, Iraq stands at a delicate yet promising juncture. The temporary calm has sparked cautious optimism among Iraqi experts and officials,...
Drop in Iranian Gas Cuts 3,800 MW from Iraq's Grid
Iraq Business News
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July 7, 2025
By John Lee. Iraq's Ministry of Electricity has confirmed a sharp decline in gas supplies from Iran, causing a loss of approximately 3,800 megawatts from the national power grid. According to Saad Fureih, Director of the Fuel Directorate at the...
OPEC+ Reaffirms Oil Market Strategy, Adjusting August Production
Iraq Business News
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July 7, 2025
By John Lee. The eight OPEC+ countries, including Iraq, have reaffirmed their coordinated approach to oil market stability and announced a collective production adjustment for August 2025. In a virtual meeting held on 5 July, the group cited...
Trump Announces New Tariffs Of Up To 30% On 7 Countries Including Sri Lanka, Iraq And Algeria
News18
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July 9, 2025
Last Updated:July 09, 2025, 22:27 IST The new round of letters brings the total number of countries targeted under the latest tariff push to 20. US President Donald Trump (Reuters file photo)US President Donald Trump announced a new wave of...
Malaya: Britain’s forgotten war for rubber and personal reckoning
The Week
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Between 1948 and 1960, Britain waged a ferocious counter-insurgency campaign in Malaya, officially termed “the Emergency.” To many Brits it remains obscure a minor footnote in the grand narrative of Britain’s decline as an empire. But for those of...
“I Met God on Mushrooms”: A Military Officer’s Psychedelic Awakening
Daily Scanner - California
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July 24, 2025
By Michael Fernandez on July 24, 2025 Benjamin Forest, a retired U.S. Air Force officer, now works as a psychedelic coach, speaker, and author. With a background in computer science and systems engineering, he spent 25 years in strategic military...
Trump administration’s lie detector campaign against leakers is unlikely to succeed and could divert energy from national security priorities
The Conversation
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July 9, 2025
The Trump administration has recently directed that a new wave of polygraphs be administered across the executive branch, aimed at uncovering leaks to the press. As someone who has taken roughly a dozen polygraphs during my 27-year career with the...
Saudi plays short and long game with OPEC+ production gamble
Hellenic Shipping News
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July 8, 2025
Saudi Arabia’s drive to rapidly increase OPEC+ oil output may put Riyadh in the pole position to regain market share today while also solidifying its dominance over the long term. A group of eight major oil producers – Saudi Arabia, Russia, the...
Baghdad Opens New Elevated U-Turns to Reduce Traffic
Iraq International News Agency
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June 30, 2025
Prime Minister Mohammed Al-Sudani has officially opened two new elevated U-turn overpasses on 14th of July Street in Baghdad’s Karkh district, aiming to ease the city’s heavy traffic congestion. The project is part of the Tobji-Shaljiyah...
Iraq to build 5,000 houses in Basra
Zawya
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Iraq has approved a project to build 5,000 houses in the Southern port of Basra as part of plans to tackle housing shortages, the province’s governor has said. Asaad Al-idani told Shafaq news agency on Wednesday that the project has been awarded...
Iraq seeks global support to overcome legacy of war
Shafaq News
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2025-06-30T12:42:51+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Seville Iraqi President Abdul Latif Rashid called for stronger international support to help Iraq overcome decades of conflict and economic setbacks, while highlighting the...
Turkmenistan Presented Its Energy Strategy at the Brussels Energy Club Roundtable
News Central Asia
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July 8, 2025
On 7 July 2025, Brussels hosted an expert roundtable titled “Medium-Term Prospects for EU Gas Imports and Strategies of Exporting Countries,” organized by the Brussels Energy Club. The keynote speaker was the Ambassador of Turkmenistan to the...
Iraq ramps up Umm Qasr Port to quadruple capacity
Shafaq News
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2025-06-30T10:30:06+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Basra Iraq’s Umm Qasr Port in Basra province is undergoing modernization to expand capacity and streamline cargo operations, targeting an increase in throughput from one...