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09/02/2012 15:20
An exchange of "cold" between oil companies and local authorities
BASRA / Orr News
Council accused Zubair, about 25 km from the center of Basra, a city of oil old in which hundreds of wells operating, foreign oil companies operating in the elimination of breaking the law and trespassing on agricultural land, causing environmental damage, threatening persecuting or organize public demonstrations against it because they have not fulfilled their pledges for the benefit of farmers there.
The speaker of the City Council and Walid Khaled Fadhel representatives of foreign oil companies, which holds the development of oil fields of the many in the city review the Council's headquarters on a certain date to negotiate with them, in the absence of their presence, they will organize peaceful demonstrations against it, the issue that embarrassed the local government that are striving to get the number the largest investors in Basra, which suffers from a lack of services in most areas of life to Mlaenha who are approaching the 3 million people. According to local reports that the "oil projects implemented by foreign companies in Zubayr led during the past months to cancel a lot of agricultural activities, causing economic losses and environmental damage large, including overtaking on the design basis for the elimination", urged the city council "to the intervention of organizations international environmental to identify and assess the seriousness of the damage caused by these projects, "adding that" the oil companies currently operating as if the judiciary without local authorities, and even security companies contracting with them for not cooperating with security forces. "
He says the governor of Basra, Dr. Khalaf Abdul Samad that the oil companies operating in the city had not fulfilled their financial obligations they have undertaken, is the allocation of $ 5 million from each company to contribute to the development and beautification of the city at a time of expectation in which the oil ministry more oil contracts, most recently signed contract with the company Baker Hughes, a value of $ 640 million to drill 60 new wells in the Zubair oil field, and has also signed a new contract with another company ENI, Italian, American and Korean companies a 20-years to develop oil fields in Zubair to produce 1.2 million barrels per day.
Because of the security situation and fears may be unreasonable, the dozens of companies of foreign investment which operates in various sectors within and outside of Basra, including senior officials, professionals and technicians and foreign workers and Arabs of various nationalities in the thousands working in the sectors of oil, gas, electricity and construction, these do not see within the city, because they living in residential areas outside the city, in the desert of the Rumaila and SAA, staying there amid heavy security protection, cost millions of dollars.
On the other hand, do not hurt people Zubair from oil operations only, but there are dozens of local factories to its surroundings desert plants asphalt, plaster, crushing gravel as well as to cause the east wind the arrival of gases and vapors and industrial pollutants from chimneys factories Alaptrukimyat, fertilizer, iron and steel and others in the area of Khor Al-Zubair in the event of industrial functioning after obtaining the Ministry of Industry contracts with international companies to re-run.
And Iraq was signed in 2010, contracts with foreign companies to develop some oil fields in the two rounds of licensing the first and second, to reach a production rate of at least 11 million barrels per day within the next five years, to 12 million barrels per day after you add the quantities produced from other fields national effort, which would be the case whereby the presence of thousands of experts and professionals an effective and necessary within the city, which they feared to enter.
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09/02/2012 15:20
An exchange of "cold" between oil companies and local authorities
BASRA / Orr News
Council accused Zubair, about 25 km from the center of Basra, a city of oil old in which hundreds of wells operating, foreign oil companies operating in the elimination of breaking the law and trespassing on agricultural land, causing environmental damage, threatening persecuting or organize public demonstrations against it because they have not fulfilled their pledges for the benefit of farmers there.
The speaker of the City Council and Walid Khaled Fadhel representatives of foreign oil companies, which holds the development of oil fields of the many in the city review the Council's headquarters on a certain date to negotiate with them, in the absence of their presence, they will organize peaceful demonstrations against it, the issue that embarrassed the local government that are striving to get the number the largest investors in Basra, which suffers from a lack of services in most areas of life to Mlaenha who are approaching the 3 million people. According to local reports that the "oil projects implemented by foreign companies in Zubayr led during the past months to cancel a lot of agricultural activities, causing economic losses and environmental damage large, including overtaking on the design basis for the elimination", urged the city council "to the intervention of organizations international environmental to identify and assess the seriousness of the damage caused by these projects, "adding that" the oil companies currently operating as if the judiciary without local authorities, and even security companies contracting with them for not cooperating with security forces. "
He says the governor of Basra, Dr. Khalaf Abdul Samad that the oil companies operating in the city had not fulfilled their financial obligations they have undertaken, is the allocation of $ 5 million from each company to contribute to the development and beautification of the city at a time of expectation in which the oil ministry more oil contracts, most recently signed contract with the company Baker Hughes, a value of $ 640 million to drill 60 new wells in the Zubair oil field, and has also signed a new contract with another company ENI, Italian, American and Korean companies a 20-years to develop oil fields in Zubair to produce 1.2 million barrels per day.
Because of the security situation and fears may be unreasonable, the dozens of companies of foreign investment which operates in various sectors within and outside of Basra, including senior officials, professionals and technicians and foreign workers and Arabs of various nationalities in the thousands working in the sectors of oil, gas, electricity and construction, these do not see within the city, because they living in residential areas outside the city, in the desert of the Rumaila and SAA, staying there amid heavy security protection, cost millions of dollars.
On the other hand, do not hurt people Zubair from oil operations only, but there are dozens of local factories to its surroundings desert plants asphalt, plaster, crushing gravel as well as to cause the east wind the arrival of gases and vapors and industrial pollutants from chimneys factories Alaptrukimyat, fertilizer, iron and steel and others in the area of Khor Al-Zubair in the event of industrial functioning after obtaining the Ministry of Industry contracts with international companies to re-run.
And Iraq was signed in 2010, contracts with foreign companies to develop some oil fields in the two rounds of licensing the first and second, to reach a production rate of at least 11 million barrels per day within the next five years, to 12 million barrels per day after you add the quantities produced from other fields national effort, which would be the case whereby the presence of thousands of experts and professionals an effective and necessary within the city, which they feared to enter.
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