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Turkey: We will buy gas from Iraq in 2017 and less than half the price
2015/8/16
Turkish Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Taner Yildiz said his country "will buy natural gas from Iraq in 2017, but not at half the price, but at a lower price as we have a neighboring country."
He stressed that Turkey "plays a key role in the transfer of Iraq's Kurdistan region's oil to world markets, stressing that this can not be achieved without" the consent of the central government in Baghdad. "
Yildiz said in an interview with reporters from the region that "the transfer of Iraqi Kurdistan oil can not be achieved without Turkey and the approval of the central government in Baghdad," adding relations "important" and the agreements and contracts that bind with Ankara, Baghdad and Erbil.
He referred in this context to the Iraqi - Turkish pipeline, which transport Iraqi oil to world markets via Turkey over 40 years ago and expressed his hope that lasts for more than 140 years the other. "
Yildiz said that 17 percent of oil income due to the Kurdistan region of Iraq in the proportion of 83 percent due to the rest of the other areas in Iraq in accordance with Iraqi law, stressing "non-interference by Turkey in the distribution of this share."
He explained to mention that all of Iraq's Kurdistan region and the central government in Baghdad refined oil from Turkey via transmission line pipeline Kirkuk Isturdan - Ceyhan There are 58 oil fields in northern Iraq, including 28 fields in the Sulaymaniyah area and 30 fields in the regions of Arbil, Dohuk and operates 25 foreign oil company this region. "
He noted the Chairman of the General Executive Board of energy in Turkey Mohammed Serpil that "natural gas project is the most important Turkish project will be implemented in the north of Iraq, because Turkey, which buys gas from Russia and Iran, you would get a much lower price, so it will drop price of natural gas purchased by Turkey now B12-13 dollars to $ 7 depending on the agreements entered into. "
The total exports of crude oil from Iraq to the port of Ceyhan in southern Turkey last July about 16 million barrels of storage capacity in the transfer tube line Kirkuk - Ceyhan about 1.6 million barrels per day.
The Kurdistan Regional Government announced early last month independence in the sale of the region's oil without reference to the federal government in Baghdad so as not to address the outstanding problems between the two sides.
And it accuses the province and the federal government of failing to abide by the agreement concluded between the two sides oil and to allocate part of the provisions of the Federal Iraqi ground forces to the Peshmerga forces and the Kurdistan Regional Government delivered 250 thousand barrels of oil per day in addition to Iraq's export of 300 thousand barrels per day of oil Krkk.anthy
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2015/8/16
Turkish Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Taner Yildiz said his country "will buy natural gas from Iraq in 2017, but not at half the price, but at a lower price as we have a neighboring country."
He stressed that Turkey "plays a key role in the transfer of Iraq's Kurdistan region's oil to world markets, stressing that this can not be achieved without" the consent of the central government in Baghdad. "
Yildiz said in an interview with reporters from the region that "the transfer of Iraqi Kurdistan oil can not be achieved without Turkey and the approval of the central government in Baghdad," adding relations "important" and the agreements and contracts that bind with Ankara, Baghdad and Erbil.
He referred in this context to the Iraqi - Turkish pipeline, which transport Iraqi oil to world markets via Turkey over 40 years ago and expressed his hope that lasts for more than 140 years the other. "
Yildiz said that 17 percent of oil income due to the Kurdistan region of Iraq in the proportion of 83 percent due to the rest of the other areas in Iraq in accordance with Iraqi law, stressing "non-interference by Turkey in the distribution of this share."
He explained to mention that all of Iraq's Kurdistan region and the central government in Baghdad refined oil from Turkey via transmission line pipeline Kirkuk Isturdan - Ceyhan There are 58 oil fields in northern Iraq, including 28 fields in the Sulaymaniyah area and 30 fields in the regions of Arbil, Dohuk and operates 25 foreign oil company this region. "
He noted the Chairman of the General Executive Board of energy in Turkey Mohammed Serpil that "natural gas project is the most important Turkish project will be implemented in the north of Iraq, because Turkey, which buys gas from Russia and Iran, you would get a much lower price, so it will drop price of natural gas purchased by Turkey now B12-13 dollars to $ 7 depending on the agreements entered into. "
The total exports of crude oil from Iraq to the port of Ceyhan in southern Turkey last July about 16 million barrels of storage capacity in the transfer tube line Kirkuk - Ceyhan about 1.6 million barrels per day.
The Kurdistan Regional Government announced early last month independence in the sale of the region's oil without reference to the federal government in Baghdad so as not to address the outstanding problems between the two sides.
And it accuses the province and the federal government of failing to abide by the agreement concluded between the two sides oil and to allocate part of the provisions of the Federal Iraqi ground forces to the Peshmerga forces and the Kurdistan Regional Government delivered 250 thousand barrels of oil per day in addition to Iraq's export of 300 thousand barrels per day of oil Krkk.anthy
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