{"id":206407,"date":"2023-01-12T08:51:55","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T00:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=206407"},"modified":"2023-01-12T08:56:18","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T00:56:18","slug":"iraq-to-offer-investment-opportunities-in-oil-refineries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=206407","title":{"rendered":"Iraq To Offer Investment Opportunities In Oil Refineries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BAGHDAD, Jan 12 (NNN-NINA) &#8211; Iraqi oil minister, said yesterday that, investment opportunities would soon be offered to increase the output capacities of some Iraqi refineries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Within the ministry&#8217;s plans, to increase refining capacities in Iraq, investment opportunities will include the Amarah refinery in Maysan province, with an increase of 150,000 barrels per day (bpd), and the al-Muthanna refinery by 100,000 bpd,&#8221; Iraqi Minister of Oil, Hayan Abdul Ghani, said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The increase in capacity will also include the Kirkuk refinery by 100,000 bpd, and the Qayyara refinery by 70,000 bpd, according to the statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A new refining unit with a capacity of 70,000 bpd will be added to the Dhi Qar refinery, in southern Iraq, which currently produces 30,000 bpd, the statement added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It also said, there is a plan to build a new refinery in Dhi Qar province with a capacity of 150,000 bpd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iraq is a member of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), holding more than 145 billion barrels of proven oil reserves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iraq&#8217;s economy heavily relies on crude oil exports, which account for more than 90 percent of the country&#8217;s revenues.&#8211; NNN-NINA  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAGHDAD, Jan 12 (NNN-NINA) &#8211; Iraqi oil minister, said yesterday that, investment opportunities would soon be offered to increase the output capacities of some Iraqi refineries. &#8220;Within the ministry&#8217;s plans, to increase refining capacities in Iraq, investment opportunities will include the Amarah refinery in Maysan province, with an increase of 150,000 barrels per day (bpd), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":206409,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[300,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206407"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=206407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206408,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206407\/revisions\/206408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/206409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}