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09-09-2011, 12:55 PM
Shahristani: oil exports from Kurdistan declined over the past two weeks, and contracts for the region are non-transparent
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Friday, 09 September 2011
Alsumaria News / Baghdad
Deputy Prime Minister for Energy, Hussain al-Shahristani revealed on Friday, a decline in crude oil exported from the Kurdistan region from 150 thousand barrels to 50 thousand through the Iraq-Turkey pipeline in the past two weeks, as called for the contracts in Kurdistan, non transparent and "behind closed doors ", he stressed that those contracts not submitted to the central government. Shahristani said in an interview for "Alsumaria News", "quantities of oil delivered to the central government of the Kurdistan region declined during the past two weeks, from 150 thousand barrels to 50 barrels, in the sense that there is a shortage of about 100 thousand barrels a day. " Shahristani said, "We took it on thinking well that there are reasons may be technical, but when it continued to decline our request from the Ministry of Oil inquiry, investigation and report on the subject," pointing out that "waiting for a report from the Ministry of Oil the reason for the decline and for providing marketing company the amount of crude oil produced in the region, amounting to a capacity of 150 thousand barrels. "
Shahristani said that "the smuggling of oil from the Kurdistan region to Iran dropped during the last few years," denying the existence of "cover up a government of the smuggling in the region" . He pointed out that "it was in earlier periods there is smuggling large crude oil and some derivatives from the region to Iran, as there were aerial photographs on the American side and also strong objections from the smuggling of these, but after obtaining the agreement with the region to deliver oil all the marketing company stopped smuggling often we do not know that it had stopped completely or not because I do not have enough information about it. "
Shahristani added that "the cabinet voted unanimously on the new draft oil law and all the blocks except for the Kurdistan Alliance," noting that "in the new draft, the contracts must be submitted to the Federal Council for the oil and gas to be formed before they are approved. " stressed that "the oil contracts for Kurdistan took place in the region has not been any central point is not in the federal government nor the Ministry of Oil and the Economic Commission and Energy Commission, not even Council of Ministers, "stressing that" contracts must be transparent and competitive and not behind closed doors and secret contracts. " Observers believe that the return of mutual recriminations between Baghdad and Erbil on file oil and gas and other issues and the latest of which was accused of Kurdish regional president Massoud Barzani, to some bodies dictatorship in the management of the country, indicate that the parties Mqublan the new crisis are similar to what happened the end of 2008 in the disputed areas, especially after failing to find any solutions to outstanding problems. It is noteworthy that the Ministry of Natural Resources in the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq announced on 3 March the past, the high export of crude oil from fields in the region to 100 thousand barrels per day during March, with references to plans to double exports end of the year 2011 to 200 thousand to one million barrels per day by 2015. The al-Shahristani said earlier that the government Iraq does not recognize contracts of oil to the Kurdistan Regional Government with the oil companies, with no waiting for the Ministry of Finance a report of the Board of Supreme Audit of Iraq on contracts for Arbil to pay dues in these companies. The differences that remain stuck between Baghdad and Erbil on Contracts for the region's oil with foreign companies and about oil and gas law, and although the Kurdistan region began in the first of June of last year the export of oil from fields in a formal, but soon stopped exporting due to differences on the benefits of companies operating in the extraction of oil, and did not continue to export only about 90 days, which is down since September last year and so far, has resumed exports in early February, following a new agreement between the Territory and Baghdad to issue the region a hundred thousand barrels a day.
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Friday, 09 September 2011
Alsumaria News / Baghdad
Deputy Prime Minister for Energy, Hussain al-Shahristani revealed on Friday, a decline in crude oil exported from the Kurdistan region from 150 thousand barrels to 50 thousand through the Iraq-Turkey pipeline in the past two weeks, as called for the contracts in Kurdistan, non transparent and "behind closed doors ", he stressed that those contracts not submitted to the central government. Shahristani said in an interview for "Alsumaria News", "quantities of oil delivered to the central government of the Kurdistan region declined during the past two weeks, from 150 thousand barrels to 50 barrels, in the sense that there is a shortage of about 100 thousand barrels a day. " Shahristani said, "We took it on thinking well that there are reasons may be technical, but when it continued to decline our request from the Ministry of Oil inquiry, investigation and report on the subject," pointing out that "waiting for a report from the Ministry of Oil the reason for the decline and for providing marketing company the amount of crude oil produced in the region, amounting to a capacity of 150 thousand barrels. "
Shahristani said that "the smuggling of oil from the Kurdistan region to Iran dropped during the last few years," denying the existence of "cover up a government of the smuggling in the region" . He pointed out that "it was in earlier periods there is smuggling large crude oil and some derivatives from the region to Iran, as there were aerial photographs on the American side and also strong objections from the smuggling of these, but after obtaining the agreement with the region to deliver oil all the marketing company stopped smuggling often we do not know that it had stopped completely or not because I do not have enough information about it. "
Shahristani added that "the cabinet voted unanimously on the new draft oil law and all the blocks except for the Kurdistan Alliance," noting that "in the new draft, the contracts must be submitted to the Federal Council for the oil and gas to be formed before they are approved. " stressed that "the oil contracts for Kurdistan took place in the region has not been any central point is not in the federal government nor the Ministry of Oil and the Economic Commission and Energy Commission, not even Council of Ministers, "stressing that" contracts must be transparent and competitive and not behind closed doors and secret contracts. " Observers believe that the return of mutual recriminations between Baghdad and Erbil on file oil and gas and other issues and the latest of which was accused of Kurdish regional president Massoud Barzani, to some bodies dictatorship in the management of the country, indicate that the parties Mqublan the new crisis are similar to what happened the end of 2008 in the disputed areas, especially after failing to find any solutions to outstanding problems. It is noteworthy that the Ministry of Natural Resources in the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq announced on 3 March the past, the high export of crude oil from fields in the region to 100 thousand barrels per day during March, with references to plans to double exports end of the year 2011 to 200 thousand to one million barrels per day by 2015. The al-Shahristani said earlier that the government Iraq does not recognize contracts of oil to the Kurdistan Regional Government with the oil companies, with no waiting for the Ministry of Finance a report of the Board of Supreme Audit of Iraq on contracts for Arbil to pay dues in these companies. The differences that remain stuck between Baghdad and Erbil on Contracts for the region's oil with foreign companies and about oil and gas law, and although the Kurdistan region began in the first of June of last year the export of oil from fields in a formal, but soon stopped exporting due to differences on the benefits of companies operating in the extraction of oil, and did not continue to export only about 90 days, which is down since September last year and so far, has resumed exports in early February, following a new agreement between the Territory and Baghdad to issue the region a hundred thousand barrels a day.
http://alsumarianews.com/ar/iraq-business-news/-3-27717.html