Mill announcements, trade measures, statistics and market moves across the Middle East and the global steel trade.
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Dana Gas and Crescent Petroleum, together with partners in the Pearl Petroleum Consortium, have signed long-term Gas Sales Agreements (GSAs) to supply natural gas to major industrial users, with…
Vallourec has secured a second contract from TotalEnergies to supply casing, tubing, and accessories for drilling 48 wells under the Associated Gas Upstream Project 2 (AGUP2), a key component of the…
Iraq is planning to invite bids from global shipyards to build eight giant ships to serve its Faw port which is under construction in the southern tip of the Arab country. The country has also…
Iraqi officials have confirmed that PowerChina has secured a USD 4 bln contract to develop the country’s first large-scale seawater desalination plant in Basra, located in southern Iraq. Launched by…
Vallourec, a global leader in premium seamless tubular solutions, has secured two significant contracts to supply Oil Country Tubular Goods (OCTG) for drilling operations led by CNOOC and PetroChina…
Pomini Long Rolling Mills has signed a contract with Mawarid Alkhaleej Company to supply equipment and services for a new rebar rolling mill in Baghdad, Iraq. The company had previously conducted the…
Iraq’s Minister of Industry and Minerals, Prof. Eng. Khaled Battal Al-Najm, has officially launched the Green Mountain Industrial City project in Basra. Developed in strategic partnership with…
Iraq has awarded a contract to China Petroleum Engineering & Construction Corporation (CPECC) for the construction of a gas processing plant in the Southern Basra governorate, the official news…
Iraq has commenced construction of its largest solar power plant, Basra Sun, with a total capacity of 1,000 megawatts (MW) in Basra province. The solar photovoltaic (PV) power plant is one of the…
Iraq plans to open its first steel-focused industrial zone this year in Basra as part of a broader effort to attract investment in steel, petrochemicals, and other sectors, according to the official…
Iraq has awarded a new city project comprising nearly 120,000 houses to two Egyptian and Chinese companies along with a local partner. Egypt’s Mountain View Company and China Railway will build Palm…
Iraq is planning to build a sponge iron plant to support its steel industry after it plummeted below its half output capacity, the industry minister has said. The plant in the Southern Basra city…
Iraq has awarded France’s giant TotalEnergies a new project for reduction of gas flaring in its oilfields as part of a mega hydrocarbon development deal signed in 2023, an Iraqi official has said…
Iraq has formally approved a Chinese private company to build its first industry city focusing on the production of steel and other metals, an official said. Tsingshan Holding Group will undertake…
A consortium of China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC) and global technology major Siemens has been awarded a contract by Iraq for the refurbishment of the unit two of the Baiji…
A European-Turkish consortium comprising France’s Systra, SNCF and Alstom, Spain’s Talgo and SENER and Turkish contractors, backed by Germany’s Deutsche Bank, have been awarded the Baghdad Metro…
British oil services firm John Wood Group has won a three-year contract worth USD 46 mln from France’s TotalEnergies in Iraq. The contract includes providing front-end engineering design (FEED)…
Iraq is close to awarding the multi-bln dollar Baghdad Metro project to a consortium of France’s Transport giant Alstom and Hyundai of South Korea, according to a local news report from the official…
Amwaj International, a leading real estate developer in Iraq, has broken ground on Karbala Gate, a USD 420-mln mixed-use development featuring 796 villas with a mix of two- and three-bedroom units…
Iraq is planning to issue several tenders for a project to build a motorway linking its south to the northern border with Turkey, according to an official. Iraqi Transport Ministry officials have…
China’s iron ore futures were largely unchanged on Thursday as expectations of tighter Brazilian supply and high freight rates were offset by weakening steel demand and high iron ore inventories at…
Hoa Phat Group has completed nearly 70pct of construction of its Dung Quat rail and special steel production plant in Vietnam, with work now focused on completing the factory structure and installing…
Vale has agreed to acquire a 30pct minority stake in Ligga S.A., which operates the Ferro Sul iron ore mine in northern Brazil, for around USD 190 mln. The transaction also includes an exclusive…
Mesabi Metallics has started up its new iron ore mine and pellet plant in Nashwauk, Minnesota, marking the first new iron ore mine and pellet plant to start up in the US in 50 years. The company…
Italian special steelmaker ABS Acciaierie Bertoli Safau, part of the Danieli Group, has opened a new service center in Varnamo, Sweden, strengthening its presence in the Nordic market. The facility…
China’s iron ore futures edged higher on Wednesday as concerns over Brazilian supply provided support, although weakening steel mill profitability and expectations of lower steel output limited the…
Tata Steel has issued the Final Acceptance Certificate for a coke-oven gas purification and hydrogen production system supplied by Canada’s PyroGenesis through its subsidiary Pyro Green-Gas at the…
Vow ASA’s wholly owned subsidiary Scanship AS has entered into an exclusive collaboration agreement with Danieli Corus B.V. to develop and market solutions for using biocarbon in integrated steel…
Italian industrial technology company Polytec has acquired a 51pct stake in Green Project Marking & Reading Systems, strengthening its offering of automation, identification and traceability…
China’s iron ore futures declined on Tuesday as ample supply and rising port inventories weighed on sentiment, although pre-holiday restocking by steel mills and high freight costs continued to…
India’s largest iron ore producer NMDC is targeting production of 60 mln tons this fiscal year to meet growing demand from domestic steelmakers, Chairman Amitava Mukherjee said. NMDC produced 53.15…
Voestalpine has received the core equipment for a new electric arc furnace (EAF) at its Linz steelworks, with the facility scheduled to start operation in the first half of 2027. The equipment…
Huttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann (HKM) has permanently decommissioned Blast Furnace A at its Duisburg site after more than 53 years of operation, as part of Salzgitter AG’s transition toward lower-carbon…
B5Plus Group has selected Danieli to supply equipment for a new rebar and wire rod mill in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast), with production capacity of 50 tons per hour, or around 300,000 tons…
Severstal has completed development and started production of Forcera weather-resistant steel in thin-sheet form, targeting long-life protective structures for road and civil infrastructure. The…
China’s iron ore futures traded rangebound on Monday as pre-holiday restocking by steel mills provided support, while high inventories and weak mill profitability limited upward momentum. Analysts…
China Baowu and BHP have renewed their steel decarbonization partnership through a new five-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), extending collaboration that began in 2020. The partners will…
Indonesia’s Anti-Dumping Committee (KADI) has initiated an anti-dumping investigation into imports of galvanized steel (BJLS) from China, following an application submitted by PT Tata Metal Lestari…
Vallourec has been selected by EnEarth, a subsidiary of Energean, to supply approximately 3,000 tons of casing pipes and accessories for the first phase of the Prinos CO2 carbon storage project in…
The European Commission has imposed a provisional safeguard measure on imports of certain grain-oriented electrical steel (GOES), citing a sharp increase in imports and serious injury to EU…
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