British Companies (Not only Security) working in Iraq

The below list is very out of date but you may find something interesting.

regards,

Ted

List of British Companies working in Iraq

1. Adam Smith International
www.adamsmithinternational.com/
Consultants
£4,147,331 from DfID
Involved in several Iraqi ministries, including 'reviewing PSP [private sector participation] options for the Ministry of Municipalities and Public Works.

2. AD Consultancy
PO Box 153, Sutton, Surrey SM39WF
Private security.

3. Aegis Defence Services
www.aegisworld.com/
Private security
£246.52m
Three-year $430m Pentagon contract to coordinate the top military/security companies in Iraq: 'a workforce the size of a military division; and may rank as the largest corporate military ever assembled' (June 2004, extended by another year in 2005).
Turnover of Aegis has gone from £554,000 (2003), to £62m (2005); three-quarters of this from work in Iraq.

4. Aggreko
www.aggreko.com/
Power
Provided Bechtel with 21MW of Emergency Diesel Generators (June 2003)
Since then 'have secured further contracts across Iraq to supply power projects'.

5. AKE Group
www.akegroup.com/
Private security
'Another of the major companies operating in Iraq... Formed by Andrew Kain after he left the UK’s SAS in 1991'.

6. ALSTOM
www.alstom.com/
Power
Are 'carrying out wide ranging operational upgrade contracts for older gas turbine plant installed at two major power stations in southern Iraq, as the nominated contractor to two US-based prime contractors'.

7. AMEC
www.amec.com/
Power/water
£500m (approx)
Subcontractor on $154m Fluor contract to restore electrical power systems (Feb 2004)
Joint contract with Fluor to 'provide design-build services for construction, rehabilitation, operation, and maintenance of power generation facilities' $500m from USAID (March 11 2004)
Joint contract with Fluor to 'provide design-build construction services for water resource projects in the northern and southern regions of Iraq' $500m and $600m from USAID (March 11 2004)
Unknown sum from Centcom contract; 'Federal spending in Iraq has helped Amec make a positive start to 2005.' (May 2005)

8. ArmorGroup
www.armorgroup.com/
Private security
£11,471,284
Received unknown sum from Bechtel for 'Temporary services for unexploded ordnance' (April 2003); £1,314,000 for FCO security (July 2004); £5,300,000 from DfID (Global Conflict Prevention Pool) for Iraqi police mentoring (June-Dec 2004); £4,857,284 for phase two of Iraq police project (March-August 2005). Malcolm Rifkind (formerly UK Foreign Secretary, Defence Secretary) is non-executive chairman.

9. Baker Wilkins
www.bakerwilkins.com/
Construction
Won an 'undisclosed contract' (April 2003). Operated in Iraq for 30 years; pulled out in 1987. Has ruled out sending personnel (2005)

10. BBC World Service Trust
www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/trust/
Media
£6.7m from DfID for 'Re-establishment of radio and television broadcasting capacity in the four southern governorates.'

11. Bell-Pottinger
www.bppa.co.uk/
Public relations
£3,016,000 from DfID (GCPP) 'promoting democracy' before July 2004 elections (March 2004)

12. Birks Sinclair & Associates
www.birks-sinclair.com/
Consultants
£0 for 'Iraq Directorate Framework Agreements Social Development Sector'; specialises in 'socio-economic development'.

13. B-Plan Information Systems
www.b-plan.com/
Software
£4.5m
£1m for computer network for Sulaimani university in North Iraq.£3.5m to supply software to hospitals (December 2004). Have provided technology and services to: 'Ministry of Education, Erbil; Iraqi Ministry of Municipalities and Public Works; University of Suleimani; Suleimani - Land Registry and Taxation Offices; Asia Cell; Kurdistan National Assembly. A spin-off company from Manchester Royal Infirmary. Shirko Abid, co-founder and chief exec, long-term opponent of Saddam, and associate of the PUK party.

14. BP Global
www.bp.com/
Petroleum
£2.866m
$5m (estimated) 'To help conduct technical studies providing the ministry with advice, analysis and training for Rumaila field'. (Jan 2005)

15. British Council
www.britishcouncil.org/
Teaching, consultants
£3,131,151 from DfID for projects including 'Education Team to Support Coalition Provisional Authority'; Iraq: Political Participation Fund; Iraq: Civil Society Fund
Removed anti-war articles from its website, September 2005

16. Chiltern Broadcast Management
www.chilternbroadcast.com/
Media
£1,370,000 from DfID, via GCPP, for management of Iraqi Media Network.

17. Conren
www.conren.com/
Materials
£20,000 contract to supply 'specialist coatings for an American-run airbase'. (June 2004)

18. Control Risks
www.crg.com/
Private security
£23.5m
Unknown proportion of $500m; subcontractor for Parsons USAID buildings contract. (March 2004). £23.5m from UK government for protection squads; figure disputed by CR (March 2004)
'One of the largest British PSCs [Private Security Companies] in Iraq'[36]; 2004 turnover £80m. Has over 250 personnel in Iraq (June 2005).

19. Costain
www.costain.com/
Construction
Working for the Kurdish Regional Government on three contracts worth £15m, near Erbil (May 2005).

20. Crown Agents for Overseas Government
www.crownagents.com/
Procurement, consultants
£8m
£4,642,112 from DfID for projects including 'Support to Iraq Coalition Provisional Authority'; 'DfID Secondee to Iraq Coalition Provisional Authority'; 'Senior Advisor to Ministry of Electricity'. £3.35 from DfID, via GCPP, for support to Ministry of the Interior; police oversight.Crown Agents is a privatised body, run by a foundation. Members include Barclays, BCCB, Securicor, Standard Chartered, Unilever, Tate&Lyle; as well as Christian Aid, Co-op and British Council. As Crown Agents Consulting (Washington)
Unknown sum for 'procurement, transport and warehouse management of goods and materials' as subcontractor for USAID contractor International Resources Group, $38m (2003)

21. Cummins UK
www.cummins.com/eu/pages/en/distributors/uk/index.cfm
Power
£25.8m
$45m from sale of power stations. 'To date we have supplied four power stations: 2MW for the Forum in Baghdad, 4MW for the El Rasheed Hotel (USAID), 5MW for the airport and 8MW for the US army.'

22. Datasat
www.datasat.com/
Telecomms
'Working on several projects all around data and voice communications infrastructure and services' (Nov 2003); a 'major telecoms contract' according to Mike O'Brien, Foreign Minister for Trade (Nov 2003).

23. De La Rue
www.delarue.com/
Financial
Printed the new Iraqi Dinar (Nov 2003). Shares rose 9% on news of Dinar contract (2003)[48]. De La Rue 'never disclosed the size or value of the Iraq contract'. Profits 2004: £53.5m; 2003: $48.1[49]. Sir Jeremy Greenstock, former UK special representative to Iraq (2003-4) is a non-executive director.

24. DfID: anonymous contractors
£1,155,068.
25. Dynamic Processing Solutions
no website
Petroleum
£12m+ (approx)
Part of consortium developing Khurmala Dome oil field in North Iraq, in a $136m (£72m) deal; the first contract awarded by post-Saddam Ministry of Oil (December 2004).[52] 'It is the most substantial contract in our company's history.' (DPS engineering manager). DPS have probably received $20-30m of this.

26. Eaton Electric Europe
www.eatonelectrical.com/uk/
Power
Have base in Iraq, (as Westinghouse US and MEM UK), as of June 2005. Formed consortium with Iraq company Al-Ghufran, plus Santec and Glantre.

27. Enterplan Ltd
www.enterplan.co.uk/
Consultants
£4,531,591 from DfID.
Projects include: Analytical Economist for the UN; Economic Management; Non Food Subsidies Policy Adviser; Advisor on the Fiscal Impacts of Transition.Partners with many major companies, including KPMG, Crown Agents, Vodaphone and PriceWaterhouseCoopers.

28. Erinys
www.erinysinternational.com/
Private security
£86m
$50m from US Army Corps of Engineers. $100m to protect oil fields (2003 to December 2004)

29. ERIS
www.eris.org.uk/
Consultants
£61,012 from DfID for 'Public Information Adviser' (November 2004).

30. European Land Solutions
www.landmine-solutions.com/
Private security
Cleared landmines for Bechtel and other USAID contractors (July 2003).

31. Exploration Consultants (ECL)
www.ecqc.com/
Petroleum
Unknown sum to carry out an 'integrated reservoir study for Kirkuk oil field' for the Ministry of Oil.

32. Foster Wheeler UK
www.fwc.com/
Shinfield Park, Reading, Berkshire RG2 9FW
Construction, power
$8.5m 'Provide program management office support for the oil sector' (March 2004)

33. Global Risk Strategies
www.globalrisk.uk.com/
Private security
£15.48m
Has 2,000 staff in Iraq. Received $27m contract to distribute new Dinar (May 2004).Guarded part of Baghdad airport (May 2004).

34. Halcrow
www.halcrow.com/
£6,815,441
Construction, consulting
£1,712,956 from DfID for projects including 'Set up of the Coalition Provincial Authority'.[66] $8.9m (£5,102,485) for 48 DfID reconstruction projects in South Iraq. Unknown sum for Bechtel USAID subcontract. Unknown proportion of CH2M Hill and Parsons' $28.5m.(March 2004) Have refurbished government buildings in Nasiriyah, Amarah and Samawah (Feb 2006). Want to build Baghdad metro.Team leader in Iraq (William Newcombe) got OBE (December 2004)
Tony Allum, chair, is head of UK Iraq Industry Working Group, and also father of the co-owner of Olive Security.

35. Hart Group
www.hartsecurity.com/
Private security
'Largest security company in Southern Iraq'.

36. Hedra Consortium
www.hedra.com/
Consultants.
£ 245,540 from DfID for CPA 'Governance Teams Facilities Managers'. Major firm; fee income grew by 23% in 2003

37. HSBC
www.hsbc.com/
Financial
Has bought 70% of Dar es Salaam Investment Bank, (which has assets of $91.1m). HSBC share is therefore £36,881,225. HSBC profit from Middle East business rose 25% in 2004.

38. HTS Development (now HTSPE)
www.htspe.com/
Consultants
Part of DfID's Iraq 'Framework Arrangements Infrastructure'.

39. Inclarity Plc
www.inclarity.co.uk/
Telecomms
£10m (approx)
Subcontractor to Asia Cell, Kuwait (Jan 2004), providing mobile services. 'Most of the £18 million company's revenue comes from the Iraq business.' Operated in North Iraq during 'safe haven'.(Oct 2005).

40. Janusian Security Risk Management
www.janusian.com/
Private security
Has run secure trade missions to Baghdad. Part of Risk Advisory Group. Allegedly recruits 'almost directly from British military'.Close ties with US think-tank the RAND corporation.

41. Kroll Associates
www.krollworldwide.com/
Private security
Has provided 'security for USAID' (Nov 2003)

42. Llewelyn Davies Yeang
www.llewelyn-davies-ltd.com/
Architects
Helping to prepare a master plan for rebuilding of holy city of Najaf, for the Ministry of Public Works (formerly worked on Milton Keynes). Have received an unknown proportion of the initial £1.6m development.

43. Maxwell Stamp
Abbots Court, 34 Farringdon Lane, London EC1R 3AX
Consultants
£3,208,096 from DfID for 'Economic Reform (phase one)'.

44. MerchantBridge
www.mbih.com
Financial, consulting
Appointed 'lead advisor' to Iraq Ministry of Industry and Minerals for their 'Lease of Industrial Factories Programme.' (Jan 2004)Launched Mansour Bank (Sep 2005), capitalised at $38.5m; 90% from Iraqi investors.

45. Minimal Risk
www.minimalrisk.co.uk/
Private Security
Have done security training in Iraq for DfID; also subcontracted by another security firm to carry out the 'recruitment, deployment, communications, training, risk assessments and day to day operational management' for UK government security teams'.

46. Mott MacDonald
www.mottmac.com/
Power/water
£1,237,311 from DfID for emergency infrastructure, water advisor and 'Southern Iraq employment and services programme' (2003-2005).[Unknown fee to produce a briefing for the MoD 'identifying the key issues to the reconstruction work required in the Basra region of Iraq.' Managing the £20m DfID emergency infrastructure project in Southern Iraq (March 2004)In talks to take over work done by the Royal Engineers, in the event of an army pull-out.

47. Mowlem
www.mowlem.com
Construction
£3m, for Basra hotel refurbishment (Nov 2003)

48. Nottingham University
www.nottingham.ac.uk/
Education
£609,300 from DfID for human rights programme, Sep 2004 to Nov 2005

49. Olive Security
www.olivegroup.com/
Private security
Unknown sum from Bechtel for the 'prepositioning and fact-finding phases' of USAID work (April 2003).'Existing agreement' meant contract not awarded competitively.[96] Turnover massively up (2004: £10.6m; 2003: £6.4) Jonathan Allum is son of chair of Halcrow; allegedly had a role in securing the Bechtel contact.

50. Oxford University
www.ox.ac.uk/
Education
Participated in archaeology consortium; total USAID budget, $4,131,274.

51. PA Consulting Group
www.paconsulting.com/Home
Consultants
Part of two DfID framework agreements, covering environmental policy and infrastructure, (June 2004)[100]. Are involved with UK ID scheme.
As Infrastructure and Development Services
£427,548 from DfID for 'emergency response fund', (April 2005)

52. PB Power (Parsons Brinckerhoff UK and Parsons US)
www.pbworld.com/
Power
£24.88m
$43.4 contract to 'Provide program management office support for the electrical services sector' (March 10 2004).

53. Petrel Resources (Anglo-Irish)
www.petrelresources.com/
Petroleum
£56.6m
Awarded $197.4m (£113.17m) contract to develop Subba and Luhais oil fields by Ministry of Oil (September 2005). Have formed a joint venture with Makman oil and gas, in which each will take 50%.

54. Powertecnique
www.powertecnique.com/
Power
Unknown sum, for supplying two 3MVA diesel generators in Abu Al Kasib (June 2005). Listed as 'success story' by UKTI.

55. Schneider Electric UK
www.schneider.co.uk/
Power
Has office in Iraq (June 2005).[108] Exhibited at Rebuild Iraq 2004. On trial over bribery in Lesotho (2003).

56. Scott Wilson
www.scottwilson.com
Engineering
Unknown share of a $160m contract from the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG), designing a new airport for Erbil, North Iraq, with Turkish company Mak-Yol. Completed 'concept' in May 2004. Phase two will involve creating a new runway and terminal, for an eventual capacity of 1.5 million passengers/35,000 tonnes of freight per year.

57. Serco
www.serco.com/
Services
£7.5m
'£5m a year' for 18-month USAID airport management contract (2004).Major donor to Save the Children UK, which allegedly muted criticisms of the Iraq war under pressure from its US wing (Nov 2003).

58. Shell (Anglo-Dutch)
www.shell.com/
Unknown sum 'To help conduct technical studies providing the ministry [of oil] with advice, analysis and training for Kirkuk field' (Jan 2005). Working on Gas Master Plan with ministry of oil.
Are also involved with developing the Maysan field in the south.Had been in Iraq from 1920s, until assets nationalised in 1973.

59. Siemens
www.siemens.com/
Power
Unknown fee from USAID, for work on Daura power plant, 'one of the most important electrical projects in the country'. Pulled out in April 2004. As of June 2005, working in Iraq with Iraqi and non-Iraqi staff

60. Solace Enterprises
www.solaceenterprises.com/
Consultants
Unknown fee as sole UK subcontractor for US firm Research Triangle Institute to 'develop local institutions' (Nov 2003). Iraq mission included Gurbux Singh, fired former head of the Commission for Racial Equality.

61. Standard Chartered
www.standardchartered.com/
Financial
Part of consortium running the Trade Bank of Iraq, created by the CPA (August 2003). Pulled out all British staff in May-June 2004.Iraqi holdings were nationalised in the 1950s.

62. TQ Education & Training
www.tqstructures.com
Education
$10m contract from the Ministry of Electricity to train staff in 'English language, management, IT and training' (Feb 2005). Support from UKTI and British Embassies 'was invaluable'.

63. UCL, Development Planning Unit
www.ucl.ac.uk/
Consultants
£221,556 from DfID for supplying two senior advisors, in the fields of public works (2003).

64. United Mesopotamia for Security
www.umssecurity.com/
Private security
British/Iraqi company. Offices in Jordan and 'Northern England'.

65. University of London
www.lon.ac.uk/
Consulting
£62,148 from DfID for help guiding the 'Political Participation Fund' (May 2004)

66. Weir
www.weir.co.uk/