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Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, Sunday, to deal with the country's wealth on the basis of equality and justice for the citizen feel at ease, while the description of workers in the oil sector to "mujahideen", demanded the Ministry of Oil and embrace the potential of professional development.
He said Nuri al-Maliki said in a statement issued by his office, today, on the sidelines of the opening of project escalation of energy export to the Southern Oil Company in Basra province, and received "Alsumaria News", a copy of "talk about the ages, needs to riches that sole source is the oil revenues," calling to "deal with the country's wealth on the basis of justice and equality for citizens feel reassured."
He described al-Maliki workers in the petroleum sector "mujahideen because they bear Two efforts in that one," noting that "one of the two efforts is the repair ravaged by the former regime as a result his wars and adventures, and the other is to develop the capacity of Iraq's export and productivity."
He said it "through the oil sector can move the other sectors such as agriculture, industry and others to be supporting him," and urged the oil ministry to "embrace the potential of professional development and develop its capacity and rehabilitation through courses and rewards to promote this sector."
The Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki opened on Sunday, (February 12, 2012), the first floating platform to export oil out of five in the Oil Ministry confirmed that the capacity of the platform of 850 thousand barrels per day.
The Deputy Prime Minister for Energy, Hussain al-Shahristani, the fourth of October 2011, that Iraq will raise the rate of export of oil over the next year to more than three million barrels per day after the opening of four ports floating north of the Gulf, confirming the presence of a plan to increase exports through new outlets, while likely to reach production capacity of the country by the year 2017 to 12 million barrels.
Observers believe that the lifting of Iraqi oil production and thus find and imports more of the public budget in the country without bringing real investment for the development of agriculture, industry and communications that could keep Iraq a rentier state is able to create a diversified economy, which has been criticized for economic policy in the country during the past decades.
It is noteworthy that the Southern Oil Company announced on 30 September 2011, that the Oil Ministry is planning to carry out acts of exploratory and wide inside Iraqi territorial waters, indicating that the goal to identify the size of oil reserves in the sea part of Iraq in preparation for drilling offshore oil in the future.
Iraq has signed in the last year 2010 contracts with foreign companies to develop some oil fields in the two rounds of licensing the first and second, to raise the production ceiling to 11 million barrels per day within the next six years, and to 12 million barrels a 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 fields in southern Iraq, has also seen the month of May of last year's announcement of the third licensing round to develop three gas fields are (crutch) in gray, and (Mansourieh) in Diyala, and (Saybah) in the Basra, launched in a few days ago in the Jordanian capital of the fourth licensing round, which aims to explore 12 oil fields and a gas is distributed in the provinces of Anbar and Nineveh, Najaf, Diyala, Wasit and Diwaniyah.
It is noteworthy that Iraq currently produces about 2.9 2.9 million barrels of crude oil per day, of which at least 1.9 million barrels extracted from fields located in the province of Basra, while the exports of Iraqi crude oil, currently about 2.2 million barrels per day, and most of those quantities issued by carriers freely through the ports of Basra (pristine deep) and al-Amaya floating, and are located in Iraqi territorial waters, and with a capacity to export 1.7 million barrels a day, and is pumped to two oil through the pipeline extends under the water and related warehouses storing coastal located near the center of Faw, about 100 km south of the city of Basra, while export quantities produced from the northern fields to the port of Ceyhan on the Mediterranean Sea through a pipeline carrier, and the remaining quantities are exported to Jordan using the pelvic carriers.
Source: Sumerian News
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