Iraq asks Iran firms to bid for oil refineries work [View All]

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Source: Reuters


(Reuters) - Iraq has invited Iranian firms to submit offers to take part in building at least four oil refineries across the country, Iraq's oil ministry spokesman said on Wednesday.

"Today, the Iranian firms have been invited to bid in building refineries which the ministry has already announced it was planning to build," Asim Jihad told Reuters.

Iran and Iraq, who fought a bitter war in the 1980s, have been strengthening ties since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, prompting concern among Iraq's once dominant Sunni minority and other Arab states, as well as in the United States.

Washington, which considers Iran part of an "axis of evil", accuses Tehran of meddling in Iraq.

Iraq wants to build at least four refineries in order to help it solve chronic fuel shortages. The ministry said last year that it wants to build Nahrain, just south of Baghdad, with a capacity of 140,000 barrels per day. A second refinery at Kuya in the north, is projected at 70,000 bpd.



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