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01-30-2009, 02:27 PM
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30/01/2009
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Qabas: The differences over the investment of oil wealth the most important problem in the relations between the Kurds and the Iraqi government, Kurds struck at least 22 contracts with foreign oil companies to produce oil without reference to the government in Baghdad, causing a constitutional objection by the Ministry of Oil in Baghdad, considered void, and these contracts are illegal and warned the company to deny any direct contract with the Kurds to deal with Iraq.
This problem is still not over, but it has many complications, side effects, in the forefront of the differences in prices and conditions of the contracts signed between the Kurds and the contracts concluded by Iraq with the oil companies, the Kurds Decades cheap, appropriate and less costly and more useful for foreign companies, the contracts are entered into by the Iraqi government in different conditions and in the cost for companies, which makes foreign companies argue for the terms and prices as they are in contracts with the Kurds.
This is what the Commission called for the oil and gas in the Iraqi parliament, to call for a unified control of the oil contracts and the standardization of contracts entered into by the central government in Baghdad and the Kurdistan regional government, because the difference in standards, prices and restrictions causing the waste of public money and give foreign companies a great opportunity to take advantage of this differences, the imposition of conditions and to obtain significant concessions, according to the report of the Commission on oil and gas in the Iraqi parliament.
However, the oil ministry to respond to that by saying it is basically in their contracts follow international standards and regulations based on the global market, which are contracts entered into by the companies with the Kurds void, because the constitution stipulates that oil wealth belongs to the Iraqi people and not only the Kurds, and that the contract with the foreign companies by the Constitution from the jurisdiction of the central government and specifically the Ministry of Oil.
But the Kurds are not indifferent to this objection and are available in the extraction of oil and sell it to their advantage by virtue of a legitimate act by the Constitution of Kurdistan and to put their territory.
The parties are awaiting approval of oil and gas law, which is the subject of controversy and two years ago without resolving the legislative.
In February 2007 ratified the Council of Ministers unanimously approved the Law of the Iraqi oil and gas, but the Kurds objected to the law after the state council for amendments to certain paragraphs, which they considered unconstitutional, as is their opinion and limit their ambitions to dispose of oil the North, as the law was to contain the items allow the provinces and the province of non-district, have signed contracts to invest in oil without reference to the Center, a popular opposition and government.
The refusal of the other political blocs in parliament, which saw it as a step to divide Iraq and the acquisition of wealth by a small local.
The report of the Commission on oil and gas in the parliament, the problem of chaos and conflict of oil contracts in the price of contracts from various Iraqi parties, as one of the problems that lead to waste of public money, which caused serious harm to the Iraqi economy.
If we add to this the problem of the smuggling of oil and some U.S. companies at preferential prices, the amount to less than the market price of $ 8 dollars and contracts «participation» and not the productivity of professional contracts with American and European firms, which gives them significant advantages in the disposition of Iraq's oil, we aware of the size of the deep differences, which revolve around the disposition of Iraq's oil wealth, which many considered a root cause of the occupation of Iraq.
30/01/2009
http://www.hewarat.dk/uploaded/1233320017oil-iraq2.jpg
Qabas: The differences over the investment of oil wealth the most important problem in the relations between the Kurds and the Iraqi government, Kurds struck at least 22 contracts with foreign oil companies to produce oil without reference to the government in Baghdad, causing a constitutional objection by the Ministry of Oil in Baghdad, considered void, and these contracts are illegal and warned the company to deny any direct contract with the Kurds to deal with Iraq.
This problem is still not over, but it has many complications, side effects, in the forefront of the differences in prices and conditions of the contracts signed between the Kurds and the contracts concluded by Iraq with the oil companies, the Kurds Decades cheap, appropriate and less costly and more useful for foreign companies, the contracts are entered into by the Iraqi government in different conditions and in the cost for companies, which makes foreign companies argue for the terms and prices as they are in contracts with the Kurds.
This is what the Commission called for the oil and gas in the Iraqi parliament, to call for a unified control of the oil contracts and the standardization of contracts entered into by the central government in Baghdad and the Kurdistan regional government, because the difference in standards, prices and restrictions causing the waste of public money and give foreign companies a great opportunity to take advantage of this differences, the imposition of conditions and to obtain significant concessions, according to the report of the Commission on oil and gas in the Iraqi parliament.
However, the oil ministry to respond to that by saying it is basically in their contracts follow international standards and regulations based on the global market, which are contracts entered into by the companies with the Kurds void, because the constitution stipulates that oil wealth belongs to the Iraqi people and not only the Kurds, and that the contract with the foreign companies by the Constitution from the jurisdiction of the central government and specifically the Ministry of Oil.
But the Kurds are not indifferent to this objection and are available in the extraction of oil and sell it to their advantage by virtue of a legitimate act by the Constitution of Kurdistan and to put their territory.
The parties are awaiting approval of oil and gas law, which is the subject of controversy and two years ago without resolving the legislative.
In February 2007 ratified the Council of Ministers unanimously approved the Law of the Iraqi oil and gas, but the Kurds objected to the law after the state council for amendments to certain paragraphs, which they considered unconstitutional, as is their opinion and limit their ambitions to dispose of oil the North, as the law was to contain the items allow the provinces and the province of non-district, have signed contracts to invest in oil without reference to the Center, a popular opposition and government.
The refusal of the other political blocs in parliament, which saw it as a step to divide Iraq and the acquisition of wealth by a small local.
The report of the Commission on oil and gas in the parliament, the problem of chaos and conflict of oil contracts in the price of contracts from various Iraqi parties, as one of the problems that lead to waste of public money, which caused serious harm to the Iraqi economy.
If we add to this the problem of the smuggling of oil and some U.S. companies at preferential prices, the amount to less than the market price of $ 8 dollars and contracts «participation» and not the productivity of professional contracts with American and European firms, which gives them significant advantages in the disposition of Iraq's oil, we aware of the size of the deep differences, which revolve around the disposition of Iraq's oil wealth, which many considered a root cause of the occupation of Iraq.