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Iraqi parliamentary committee: export oil from Kurdistan, "legal"
17/12/2011 15:35
Baghdad, December 17 / December (Rn) - The Commission on oil and energy in the Iraqi Council of Representatives on Saturday that export crude oil from fields in the Kurdistan region of Iraq is "in accordance with the law."
The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister Hussein Shahristani said earlier that the Government of Erbil continues to export 75 thousand barrels of crude oil per day in an "illegal." A member of the Parliamentary Committee Farhad Secretary of the Kurdistan News Agency (Rn) "the right of Arbil that exports crude oil and its right to contract with international companies to import oil products" to the territory of Kurdistan.
The Kurdistan region has started exporting oil from the territory in June of 2009 for the first time in its history from the fields of "Taq" and "Tawke" rate of about 100 thousand barrels per day. The roots of the crisis between Baghdad and Erbil to oil contracts was the region has entered into with international oil companies without the consent of the Ministry of Federal Oil deemed contracts "void" and contrary to the Constitution. and continued Amin said, "the export of oil is not considered smuggling of crude oil. what he says Shahristani is incorrect as he tries to prove always the opposite."
There are several pending issues between Baghdad and Erbil, especially one of the disputed areas and the budget of the Regional Corps (Peshmerga). not to strain the relationship between the two sides surfaced recently after he refused Kurdistan draft law of oil and gas approved by the Iraqi government.
Amin said, "there are obstacles behind this problem is to approve oil and gas law and the continuing escalation by Mr. Shahristani and the lack of region to the level of the production of oil derivatives. " says the Kurds that the draft law focuses powers, however, the federal government in the management of oil wealth at the expense of the region provinces. provides a terms of agreements Erbil, provided that he agrees on the law of oil and gas, but the region accuse the National Alliance circumvent the conventions and pass the draft the law without taking the position of the Kurds. and the Kurds threatened to disclose the minutes of meetings of Arbil, which paved the way for the formation of the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said that there are parties trying to repudiate the agreements.
The oil imports about 95% of Iraq's budget. Iraq and select a target to increase production capacity to 12 million barrels per day by 2017 from about 2.7 million barrels per day currently. From: Jafar Allonan. Open: Murtaza Yousuf
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17/12/2011 15:35
Baghdad, December 17 / December (Rn) - The Commission on oil and energy in the Iraqi Council of Representatives on Saturday that export crude oil from fields in the Kurdistan region of Iraq is "in accordance with the law."
The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister Hussein Shahristani said earlier that the Government of Erbil continues to export 75 thousand barrels of crude oil per day in an "illegal." A member of the Parliamentary Committee Farhad Secretary of the Kurdistan News Agency (Rn) "the right of Arbil that exports crude oil and its right to contract with international companies to import oil products" to the territory of Kurdistan.
The Kurdistan region has started exporting oil from the territory in June of 2009 for the first time in its history from the fields of "Taq" and "Tawke" rate of about 100 thousand barrels per day. The roots of the crisis between Baghdad and Erbil to oil contracts was the region has entered into with international oil companies without the consent of the Ministry of Federal Oil deemed contracts "void" and contrary to the Constitution. and continued Amin said, "the export of oil is not considered smuggling of crude oil. what he says Shahristani is incorrect as he tries to prove always the opposite."
There are several pending issues between Baghdad and Erbil, especially one of the disputed areas and the budget of the Regional Corps (Peshmerga). not to strain the relationship between the two sides surfaced recently after he refused Kurdistan draft law of oil and gas approved by the Iraqi government.
Amin said, "there are obstacles behind this problem is to approve oil and gas law and the continuing escalation by Mr. Shahristani and the lack of region to the level of the production of oil derivatives. " says the Kurds that the draft law focuses powers, however, the federal government in the management of oil wealth at the expense of the region provinces. provides a terms of agreements Erbil, provided that he agrees on the law of oil and gas, but the region accuse the National Alliance circumvent the conventions and pass the draft the law without taking the position of the Kurds. and the Kurds threatened to disclose the minutes of meetings of Arbil, which paved the way for the formation of the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said that there are parties trying to repudiate the agreements.
The oil imports about 95% of Iraq's budget. Iraq and select a target to increase production capacity to 12 million barrels per day by 2017 from about 2.7 million barrels per day currently. From: Jafar Allonan. Open: Murtaza Yousuf
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