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Oil Minister vows to draw policies that reduce duplication and overlap with the provinces and territories
Qurtas News / Baghdad
Oil Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi, Sunday, said the ministry will examine the claims and observations of local governments, pledging to work to find appropriate solutions according to the contexts and the powers and legal mechanisms .
He said a lengthy statement posted on the ministry's website, following the conclusion of the workshop with local governments, said Abdul-Mahdi pointed out that "the formation of joint committees to review drafts of laws and forwarded to the House of Representatives, as well as offer a draft ministry policy and strategy work refineries and oil and gas law on the provincial councils, to share with us in the management of oil wealth for policy-making in order to avoid overlap or duplication of work .
And the Minister of Oil results of the workshop during a press conference, said it was "discussed ways to improve the relationship between the departments and companies the ministry on the one hand and between the local governments of the other hand and search powers and mechanisms related to work between the Oil Ministry and local governments in the provinces format, and the relevant authorities in relation to the development of the industry oil in the country . "
The contribution of agriculture and industry in national output fall
He said Abdul-Mahdi said: "The State of Iraq did not become their own rents, but now local governments are going towards the rentier, as well as the Iraqi society, everyone Oil wants and seeks for the job," pointing to "the existence of the decline in the contribution of the agricultural and industrial sector and other sectors in the gross national product to 30%, and the contribution of Iraqi private sector 4% of fixed capital formation, while the proportion of the contribution of other sectors in the state budget did not exceed the exception of the oil for 5 %. "
He explained Abdul-Mahdi said "one of the most Marqlat decentralized system in Iraq, the application is not to adopt a series of important laws, particularly the oil and gas law and the equitable distribution of financial resources, in addition to the national oil company law," noting that "the absence of these laws made opposing rather than to be complementary ".
Formation of a working group to develop the oil sector
And between the oil minister, said the aim of organizing the workshop is to improve the quality of the relationship between the ministry and the rest of the provinces that has important oil projects, as well as work on the implementation of real projects positively reflected on the reality of the oil industry in the country and the development of infrastructure and services to the provinces in particular .
The minister said that "the workshop stressed the keenness of everyone to provide suitable work teamwork ground, and in order to achieve real gains for the people of Iraq in general, and comes through constructive consultations because the quest to develop work in any field, there has to be consultation and dialogue with the concerned parties to reach the desired results and the achievement of tangible progress . "
He said the minister, "we in this workshop, we find it necessary to hear and learn and consult, should not be committed to the view, we search for the supreme interest of the country, and the ministry will discuss the revision of the laws on the subject, particularly the provinces 21 Law for the year 2008 average, down to the national vision aimed at development and the protection of national wealth, we will discuss plans for the establishment of the Ministry of refineries, and plans Oil Products Distribution Company in the provision of petroleum products to citizens and displaced persons, in particular, controls the construction of filling stations, and we will present a working paper concerning petroleum licensing rounds and the role of local governments . "
Top Oil and Gas Council
According to the ministry's statement has raised the general manager of the legal department Laith Shahir several points contained in the working paper his constituency during the workshop, including the approval of oil and gas law, which is the basis for organizing the relationship with local governments in the vital national wealth of Iraq, administration, and the establishment of the national oil company, along with the establishment of the Council of higher oil and gas .
The Director General of the Legal Department several proposals for cooperation between the ministry and local governments, where a request from local governments to the need to develop a vision for the development of the oil industry on the one hand, and speed approval of oil and gas law Greater importance on the other hand, as well as the development of shared visions to encourage and Ttoerganon investment in the field of construction and the establishment of refineries No. 64 for the year 2007 average, and the law of the import and sale of oil derivatives No. 9 for the year 2006 .
Increase refineries with preservation of the environment
Turning statement to a study presented by the Director General of studies, planning and follow-up Sadiq al-Moussawi, a working paper included the statistics of the number of oil refineries in the country, and their geographical distribution as well as the absorptive capacity and the quantity of what is produced, along with some suggestions and solutions for the advancement of plans for the establishment of refineries needed to set up new refineries and conditions, taking into account of crude oil availability factors and consumption centers and spaces appropriate for the project and the availability of services .
Moussawi pointed to the importance of preserving the environment and how cooperation between the ministry and local governments and Aldoaúrh concerned to keep them from pollution and safety.
The statement said that the Director General of Oil Products Distribution Company Raad Rafiq put across a working paper submitted by the workshop, the construction of stations and Yards gas and plans used in the provision and processing of oil derivatives for displaced people and processes to provide oil derivatives to the provinces of the "white oil and liquid gas and gasoline" and asphalt and oils sector controls year, provinces and regions and projects, the Ministry of Construction and Housing and the development of the Municipality of Baghdad .
And the companion that it comes in coordination through ministerial committees, and the mechanics of generators civil processing material gas oil, which include the role of citizens and the headquarters of the state departments, banks and water plants, irrigation, sewage, hospitals, educational centers, hotels, houses of worship, factories and the headquarters of the diplomatic corps and international organizations pumping, as well as belonging to the state of the equipment and are taking into consideration when determining the quantities positions equipped national electricity grid received from the Ministry of Electricity .
IDP camps equipped with fuel for free
The statement addressed the conclusion of the paper processing displaced Director General stressed that the branches of the distribution company is equipped houses of worship and camps inhabited by displaced material free gas oil, similar generators citizens .
Provided Contracts and Licensing identified the nature of the relationship between the oil ministry and local governments according to Articles 111 and 112 of the Constitution, has also been reviewing the mechanics of the work and the establishment of the Department contracts and patterns and the texts of contracts entered into by the department with international companies within the licensing rounds, and the foundations of cooperation with local governments in respect of those contracts, social contributions and committees within the joint administration of contracts, and the positive effects for decades licensing rounds in the provinces where oil and gas fields exploration and patches that have been contracted out within four rounds of petroleum licenses are located .
Think of alternatives to new energy
According to the statement, the oil minister, Adel Abdul-Mahdi, pointed to the need to think about following the developed countries policies go to the ways and means of alternative energy and fuel, pointing to the need for mechanisms to rationalize the consumption of petroleum products, and the need to reconsider prices associated with the rationalization of fuel, and the need for the ministry of cooperation and provincial councils so .
Provincial non-oil producing support
Abdul-Mahdi said that the workshop was very process has been recording all observations of local governments will be studied in depth and the ministry will work to solve all problems, and will form joint committees to review drafts of laws and forwarded to the House of Representatives .
He explained that he "will also display the draft ministry policy and strategy refineries and oil law on provincial councils, policy-making together, and reconsider draw to determine the oil taboo to show how to deal with cooperation between the people and the state, and investment optimization and social contributions of the oil companies in licensing rounds . "
The minister referred to the "provincial non-oil producing support the establishment of the oil projects (refineries), and the study of a national effort to develop small fields, as in the provinces of Samawah, Diwaniyah and other provinces through the joint committee on this subject . "
However, Abdul-Mahdi said, "also will examine compensation for those affected by the oil projects of farmers, we have the idea to name the green oil fields, where is possible to set up farms and green fields near the oil pipeline to be farms and fields, the owners are the defenders of the pipeline, and to inform the local governments on the ministry's plans for the coming years . "
He added that "it is necessary to find a suitable investment environment for the completion of projects, as is the case in the work of the developed countries . "
The workshop was attended by Advanced cadre in the Ministry of Oil and the governors, presidents and members of provincial councils, and members of the House of Representatives, and representatives from the General Secretariat of the
Council of Ministers, and the President of the advisers Thamer Ghadhban.
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