Iraqi Kurdistan Region – Iraqi Economists Network

Attacks on major Iraqi gasfield drive out U.S. contractors

Exterran Corp workers leave after more rocket attacks Plan to expand output from Khor Mor gasfield on hold Kurdish region heavily dependent on oil and gas revenues ERBIL, Aug 30 (Reuters) - A series of rocket attacks on a gasfield in northern Iraq has sent the U.S. contractors working on its expansion packing, dealing a blow to the Kurdish region's hopes of boostin

Businesswomen say Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government needs to work harder to create the conditions for entrepreneurs. Taffan Hamakhan's cosmetics business 'ByTaff' employs women in an effort to reduce female unemployment [Courtesy of Taffan Hamakhan] Nearly five years ago, Huda Sarhang, 27, was sitting at one of the most iconic tea shops in Erbil, th

Introduction The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) stepped into 2022 with not enough cash to pay the December salaries of civil servants and pensioners; delayed to January 2022. Now, at mid-March, civil servants are going on strike and taking to the streets of Sulaymaniah to demand their February salaries. The evidence on the ground shows that the government developed a c

Dana Gas, the leading publicly-listed regional natural gas company in the Middle East, and its partner, Crescent Petroleum, the oldest private oil and gas company in the region, have reported record sales and gas production from its operations in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI), which surged to hit 452 million cu ft of gas per day (MMscf/d) at the end of 2021. The product

Cowboy Drugstore : Traces of a kleptocrat from Iraq to Delaware to Miami. By Zacck Kopplin * Masrour Barzani, Iraqi Kurdistan prime minister and owner of a Miami building housing a CVS A few blocks from the water, in the heart of Miami’s glitzy South Beach, is a drugstore not like the others. Tourists buying sunscreen and straw hats from the CVS on