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Expert's (range): oil licensing rounds return to the dominance of global companies
On: Wed, 22/12/2011 8:00
□ Baghdad / Ahmed Abed Rabbo
expert considered Subhi al-Badri oil licensing rounds that the contracts concluded by the Ministry of Oil companies, is to return Iraq to the era of the dominance of the global oil companies as they were before the nationalization of oil.
Badri said to (the economic term) that these tours will keep the international oil companies control Iraq's oil production, noting that some seek to destroy the Iraqi mentality by dispensing with the local oil companies. He said Badri: The licensing rounds are caused disagreements between the Government Center and the region on oil fields, and called for the establishment of a national oil company and the intervention of modern technology in the mechanism of action in addition to sending specialized cadres abroad for the latest developments in the oil industry.
He pointed to the need for the adoption of laws that would serve the oil industry in Iraq and that the play by other economic sectors.
For his part, said the economist Majid picture for (long economic): There is a lack of the integrated program for the benefit of oil, pointing out the lack of a comprehensive study of how the use of oil in Iraq, and added the picture: that the primary objective of the production is the increase in export in order to increase financial returns, pointing out that the government is trying to put on the same liabilities as they fall significantly.
He Suri: You must pay attention to participate by exploiting the enormous potential for oil and expand the productive base of petroleum products all.
so stressed oil expert Amr Hesham the need to establish power stations working on assigning the production of the oil industry, said oil expert Amr Hesham's (range economic): The oil industry can not continue to increase production is not established with plants to provide electricity, noting that giant oil companies have begun offering deals to the Iraqi private sector in the establishment of stations.
He Hisham: must adopt the oil industry itself, and that have a surplus of electricity from which you can finance the surrounding areas, indicating that this step will eliminate the scourge of unemployment prevailing in the Iraq, and Hisham: For licensing rounds Production began to increase dramatically, and this is a pointer in the oil production in Iraq.
and Iraq had signed contracts with international companies to develop some oil fields in the licensing rounds to raise the production ceiling to 11 million barrels per day within six years the next, and to 12 million barrels per day, after the addition of the quantities of the other fields of national effort, has focused the majority of those contracts to develop oil fields, large south of Iraq, has also seen the past several days the announcement of third licensing round to develop three gas fields are Akkas in gray, and Mansuriyah in Diyala, and Siba in Basra, as launched in the Jordanian capital, licensing round, the fourth, which aims to explore 12 oil fields and gas is distributed in the provinces of Anbar and Nineveh, Najaf, Diyala, Wasit and Qadisiyah.
has paid the contracts is the Ministry of Oil to the implementation of a plan by which to step up export capacity of Iraq, including the early stages of the project, create reservoirs of new pumping in a warehouse FAO coastal extension tubes capacity of the 48, and a length of 20 km on land and 120 km under water, and associated Alonbuban after the completion of installed them in three platforms single floating for export, has also signed the SOC middle of the month current contracts worth billion and $ 66 million with two (Saipem), Italian, and (LEIGHTON) Australian implementation of three projects on the development of export capacity through the Gulf.
It is noteworthy that Iraq currently produces about 2.9 million barrels of crude oil per day, of which 1.9 million barrels extracted from the fields of Basra , after it was Iraq's production does not exceed 2.5 million barrels last year, and expects the Oil Ministry to increase its production ceiling to three million barrels later this year 2011, while the amount of Iraq's exports of crude oil is currently about 2.2 million barrels per day, and most of those quantities exported by carriers freely through the ports of Basra (pristine deep) and al-Amaya floating, and are located within Iraqi territorial waters, and with a capacity to export the actual 1.7 million barrels a day, and pumped to two oil through a pipeline freely connected repositories coastal town near the center of Faw, about 100 km south of the city Basra, while export quantities produced from the northern fields to Turkey's Ceyhan port, overlooking the Mediterranean Sea via the tube carrier, and the remaining quantities are exported to Jordan, using a pelvic carriers.
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