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Starting the implementation of the oil agreement between Baghdad and Erbil
Thursday 20 November 2014 | 7:59
Finance Minister Hoshyar Zebari announced the start of the Kurdistan Regional Government to resume the implementation of the agreement under which the Baghdad government employees' salaries Kurds in exchange for a share of the financing of Kurdish oil exports.
The agreement aims to reduce the differences between Baghdad and the Kurdish authorities in time face a common threat from al "Daash." Under the agreement, the Kurdish authorities pledged to pump 140 thousand barrels of oil per day, or about half of the total Kurdish shipments to the central government's export tankers in the Turkish port of Ceyhan. Baghdad has agreed to pay $ 500 million allocated to the Kurdish salaries.
Zebari said that the government of the Kurdistan began pumping oil tankers to the North Oil Company in the port of Ceyhan yesterday that $ 500 million has been transferred yesterday. He pointed out that other payments will follow.
In addition, he stressed Turkish Energy Minister, Taner Yildiz, that Iraqi crude oil pumping to Turkey will resume soon at a rate of 150 thousand barrels per day after a hiatus lasted eight months.He said that "Turkey will extend the contract that replaces him at the end of the year with Algeria to buy 4.4 billion cubic meters of liquefied natural gas annually for another ten years."
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Thursday 20 November 2014 | 7:59
Finance Minister Hoshyar Zebari announced the start of the Kurdistan Regional Government to resume the implementation of the agreement under which the Baghdad government employees' salaries Kurds in exchange for a share of the financing of Kurdish oil exports.
The agreement aims to reduce the differences between Baghdad and the Kurdish authorities in time face a common threat from al "Daash." Under the agreement, the Kurdish authorities pledged to pump 140 thousand barrels of oil per day, or about half of the total Kurdish shipments to the central government's export tankers in the Turkish port of Ceyhan. Baghdad has agreed to pay $ 500 million allocated to the Kurdish salaries.
Zebari said that the government of the Kurdistan began pumping oil tankers to the North Oil Company in the port of Ceyhan yesterday that $ 500 million has been transferred yesterday. He pointed out that other payments will follow.
In addition, he stressed Turkish Energy Minister, Taner Yildiz, that Iraqi crude oil pumping to Turkey will resume soon at a rate of 150 thousand barrels per day after a hiatus lasted eight months.He said that "Turkey will extend the contract that replaces him at the end of the year with Algeria to buy 4.4 billion cubic meters of liquefied natural gas annually for another ten years."
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