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19 December 2011 -- With the end of the war in Iraq, one chapter of the Neoconservative history is ended. Its outcome will not be known for decades to come.
19 December 2011 -- Iraq's electricity ministry has endorsed electricity deals with Iran and China worth $1.2bn to build a thermal power plant and upgrade another in Iraq, Fars news has reported.
15 December 2011 -- The French power giant Alstom has signed a $539 million contract with the Electricity Ministry for the construction of a 728 megawatt gas-driven power plant in the country, said ...
13 December 2011 -- French engineering group Alstom has secured a contract worth about EUR400m to construct a 728MW gas-fired power plant in Iraq.
13 December 2011 -- The plant will consist of four units and will be constructed under a turnkey contract, covering delivery of equipment and civil works.
Erbil, 13 December 2011 -- Kurdistan Regional Government has over 45 million barrels of oil and more than 60 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. There is a shortfall in electricity in the region however. ...
Baghdad, 13 December 2011 -- Iraq has signed another contract with the French energy company Alstom.
12 December 2011 -- Launching the Karkheh-al-Emara 400KV power transmission line increased Iran's electricity exports to Iraq by 200 megawatts per day, the Mehr news agency reported.
12 December 2011 -- With the inauguration of Karkheh-Al-Emareh transmission line, the daily export of electricity to Iraq will increase to 200 megawatts, said the managing director of Electricity Network ...
12 December 2011 -- The Ministry of Electricity, signed Saturday, three contracts with the Swedish company (ABB) for the rehabilitation of the electrical power transmission networks across the country ...
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