Claims create a media center in the oil ministry to support transparency
On: Sat 12/17/2011 6:58
□ Baghdad / economic-term follow-up
confirmed the Commission on oil and gas development on the importance of parliamentary information center specialized in the Oil Ministry to expand the transparency in the dealings of the Ministry. A member of the Furat al-Shara (Rn) that "the Commission on oil and energy stresses the need to develop the oil ministry media center specialist detect Iraq's exports and production of fields on a daily basis.
He pointed out that the practice of the majority, Zara T. oil in the world, you establish a media center specialist with the powers and possibilities and wide in order to expand transparency and disclosure of transactions and the Ministry of oil daily. "
The Islam that the "Committee for the oil and energy will be prompted during the hospitality and oil minister, the need to establish a media center expanded for the purpose of facilitating the work of media professionals with the Ministry of Oil and urged officials to permit the transparency of different media. "
For his part, criticized the "Alliance of the Extractive Industries Transparency" in Iraq last Tuesday, the Ministry of Oil on the disclosure of information and the numbers in the projects of oil fields. and Iraq joined in the last year to "Transparency Initiative Extractive Industries" that sets global standards for transparency with respect to mining.
Iraq is seeking to modernize the economy devastated by years of war and international sanctions and violence, but depends heavily on foreign giants to assist in reconstruction.
and Iraq signed a series of oil agreements with major companies trying to which would increase oil production to 12 million barrels per day by 2017 from 2.8 million barrels per day currently.
In the meantime, considered the Commission on oil and energy in the House of Representatives that the step of establishing a company gas Basra came late, stressing that its establishment would take four years.
A member of the Deputies Committee, Fatima Alzerkane's Agency (news): the step to establish a gas company Basra came late, and was supposed to be all of these procedures over the past years to be the company had given off during this period, noting that the foundation needs to be at least four years To expand a company and start working effectively.
and expected Alzerkane recovery file oil and energy after the withdrawal of U.S. forces end this year without explaining why.
The government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh announced mid this month that the Council of Ministers approved the establishment of Basrah Gas Company, which will address the gas associated with oil from the fields of Rumaila, Zubair, West Qurna 1 / partnership between the South Gas Company, owned by the Ministry of Oil by 51% and a coalition of Royal Dech Shell by 44% and Mitsubishi of Japan by 5% a total investment of $ 17 billion for a period of (25) years, and will be re- rehabilitation of existing facilities to the South Gas Company in Basra and the establishment of new facilities for collecting and processing the gas.
where will the South Gas Company in the first asset-based-owned company is to cover its share in cash stage later, with the possibility to submit to the foreign partner a loan of one billion dollars to finance part of the capital South Gas Company.
Dabbagh said that the energy of the proposed project will be around (2000) million standard cubic feet / day (Mqmq).
Al-Dabbagh said the government will be income tax worth 35% and the import duties on a 5% pay to the state treasury and export duty of 1% payable to Oil Marketing Company (SOMO) on the work of the Gas Company of Basra.
to that, the CEO of General Electric Company Joseph Anis oil and gas company's ability to provide customers by the integrated re-injection of produced water in the context of plans to boost productivity in the Rumaila oil.
He told (Agency News news), we adopted a method of engineering an innovator in this project, includes a full range of products including pumps, engines, gas and gas systems, valves, air coolers, which will provide this innovative solution the additional advantage in the design prepared to maintain the water resources in the country.
He pointed out that value of the holding company of more than $ 40 million, and includes power 10 pumps, high pressure divided axes of the water injection using 10 engines gas and 6 pumps driving function generators and two of the systems, gas supply and air conditioning as well as auxiliary equipment Kalmbirdat pneumatic control valves and systems push air. and will be shipped this equipment during the second half of 2012.
and to provide the company BP Iraq NV bouquet full range of pumps, motors and ancillary equipment for re-injection of produced water in the Rumaila oilfield in southern Iraq, and to ensure to meet all technical requirements for the company BP, which hastened the company to evoke the resources " GE Energy GE Energy "which drives Waukesha gas and product range Bently Nevada monitoring, including the agreement signed between the" General Electric "company BP Iraq-NV: single point of contact for the full range of equipment, plant and one for all units to ensure the compatibility of technical and business system ensures reduced installation time, and highly efficient administrative approach allows customers to save money and time in the management phase of the project.
it has been mentioned so far detected about 50 ambush producer of oil and gas in parts of Iraq, while Rumaila is the most productive among them.
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