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Iraq-Jordan
Russians eager to work in Iraq despite dangers
2004-05-14
A Russian company whose employees in Iraq have twice been targeted by kidnappers says its employees are willing and eager to work there, despite the danger....Interenergoservice is building a power plant outside Baghdad....On Monday, 100 of the remaining 340 Interenergoservice employees took a charter flight out of the country. A company spokesperson said there’s no shortage of people willing to take their places....Russian companies have a billion dollars worth of reconstruction contracts in Iraq.
I wouldn’t have posted this except that the billion $ reconstruction bit came as a surprise.
Posted by:Rafael

#1  Much of the power production equipment is hard to repair without design knowledge. For example: the main generators and boiler feed pumps are multi-stage high speed turbines that require precise repairs or they will fail catastrophically. Large pumps, transformers etc. could be reverse engineered but not in the volume necessary to get a full power production facility up and running quickly.
Posted by: Super Hose   2004-05-15 3:31:19 AM  

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