February 28, 2015 16:59
The Commission on oil and energy parliamentary Saturday, it has not received any official information by the federal government and the Kurdistan Regional Government for Kurdish carrier announced unload in Israel yesterday, as pointed out that the oil agreement between Baghdad and Erbil still exists.
Committee Chairman Ares Abdullah in an interview that "we have not received information either formally by the federal government or the Kurdistan region for Kurdish oil tanker which Reuters announced yesterday emptied its load in the government of Israel."
Abdullah added that, "if this is the tanker loaded from the port of Ceyhan, they are not Kurdish, but an Iraqi, whether issued through Sumo or Government of the Territory," pointing out that "the government knows export operations carried out by the province." He said Abdullah, that "the Convention between Baghdad and Erbil List and the two sides are committed to it, because of its clauses included the budget law. " The "Reuters" agency revealed, on Friday (February 27, 2015), that an oil tanker from Iraq's Kurdistan region blocked for months from unloading its cargo in Texas under a lawsuit filed by the government Iraqi sailed back to the Mediterranean Sea and delivered its cargo to Israel.
The cabinet decided, in (2 December 2014), the approval of the oil agreement between Baghdad and the Kurdistan region, which provides for the delivery of the region at least 250 thousand barrels of oil per day to Baghdad for the purpose of export , after reaching the Kurdish delegation headed by Nechirvan Barzani, the Iraqi government with an agreement on the region's share in the budget and export of oil.
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