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Claims representative to form a media center for the dissemination of information relating to oil
On: Wednesday 1/4/2012 7:48
□ Baghdad / follow-up term economic
invited among the parliamentary to the need to establish an information center specialized in the Oil Ministry in order to achieve the greatest possible transparency in the flow of information, at the time confirmed the sources of other representative to reach compromises over the oil and gas law, which is still wallowing in the corridors of the House of Representatives.
The Commission asked for the oil and energy in the House of Representatives and the Oil Ministry to formally establish a media center specialist publication of information relating to oil transparently.
A member of the Furat al-Shara told the Kurdish news agency (Rn) that "the Commission on oil and energy called the Oil Ministry officially set up a media center specialist in the matter of oil to prevent infinite media information to any party. "
"The Oil Ministry has the role of the media is weak which is selective in the granting of media information, may be an impediment to the development of transparency in the development of oil projects."
He pointed out that "part of the failure information to the Ministry of oil due to the laws and administrators sticking in the Ministry of Oil. " And criticized the organization Transparency International in Iraq, media performance for the oil ministry in the disclosure of information in the projects of oil fields.
and a student in the earlier media representatives and specialists project the transparency and the Oil Ministry to establish a media center specialist to give information and activating the role of the Office of the media.
intends to Iraq, a member of OPEC to increase its exports to 12 million barrels per day by 2017, after it signed deals with international energy companies to develop fields of the country. The production of the country currently has about 2.8 million barrels per day and are imports about 95% of the country's budget finances.
In the meantime, disclosed the Kurdistan Regional Government, the image of a preliminary consensus obtained between Arbil and Baghdad about a new version of the adoption of the law of oil and gas, indicating that the oil and gas representative was currently to translate the consensus by blending between the draft law and the proposal.
The prime minister said in a statement recently that "the Commission on oil and energy parliamentary revealed preliminary consensus has recently been the province of Kurdistan and the federal government on a new formula to approve oil and gas law," noting that "the Commission engaged now to translate the consensus of the combination of the draft law and the proposal. "
The statement noted that three committees negotiating a joint between Baghdad and Erbil, ended the end of October last negotiations in Baghdad on the outstanding issues had concluded three reports seen by the federal government, stressing that "the reports included the most prominent outstanding issues between the two sides, a file of the disputed areas, the budget of the Regional Corps (Peshmerga), and the law of oil and gas. "
The statement said that "the Commission said that the principled consensus between the center and the region obtained by reviewing the draft law of oil and gas in 2007 and the proposed law submitted from 60 members of the House of Representatives, "adding that" the Committee stipulated that the review can be corrected without affecting the substance of paragraphs legal and constitutional. "
and the separation of the statement that the committee began to review the laws in order to get out the law and one deleted from controversial articles, free from political influences, that submitted to Government for approval and forwarded to the Parliament again. "
It is noted that oil and gas law is one of the most outstanding issues between Baghdad and Erbil since the adoption of the permanent Iraqi constitution, which is no less important for decision makers in the region on Article 140 of the Constitution on the disputed areas.
At issue between Erbil and Baghdad on 41 contract oil and signed by the provincial government since 2007 until now, calling Baghdad, lack of transparency in the signature, while the rejected Arbil recent draft of the Oil and Gas Law approved by the Iraqi government and sent to the House of Representatives for approval.
The region that the draft law "focus powers "However, the federal government in the management of oil wealth at the expense of the region and the provinces, as well as passed by the Council of Ministers" without due process of law. "
to that announced by Undersecretary of the Ministry of Oil that Iraq's oil exports last year hit 63 million barrels of oil, indicating that the financial revenues from these exports in 2011 amounted to about $ 83 billion U.S..
According to Mutasim Akram, told the Kurdish news agency (Rn), that "the total of Iraq's oil production during the December / December last year amounted to 2,000,924 barrels of oil per day were exported 2,000,055 thousand barrels of them, while the allocation of the remainder for domestic consumption, "noting that" the total exports of Iraqi oil during the last month reached 63 million and 705 thousand barrels of oil. "
He said Akram that "the total imports of Iraqi oil during 2011 amounted to about 83 billion U.S. dollars. "
The Oil Ministry said on its official, that "Iraq's oil exports since January up to December / December of last year reached 724 million barrels of oil," indicating that "the total imports of such oil exports amounted to 75 billion and 945 million U.S. dollars. "
intends to Iraq, a member of OPEC to increase its exports to 12 million barrels per day by 2017, after it signed deals with international energy companies to develop fields of the country.
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