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Alternatives to export Iraqi crude to close Hormuz, Saudi Arabia send a "positive signals"
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 18:46
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Twilight News / The Ministry of Planning, on Wednesday, they developed alternative plans to export oil through a number of directions and means in the event of closing the Strait of Hormuz, which is the passage of the President of Iraq's oil exports.
Iran has threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz, through which passes from the third seaborne oil trade if West led the movement to prevent the export of Iranian oil to hit the energy sector has paralyzed.
He said Iraqi Planning Minister Ali Shukri told a news conference attended by "Twilight News" that "Iraq has to form a government committees, to discuss what can be done if the closure of the Strait of Hormuz."
The Shukri, "Iraq could increase exports from Ceyhan line through Turkish territory to one million barrels," he said, adding "We also discussed with the Lebanese and Syrian sides in activating the Banias line Tripoli through Syria and Lebanon."
And subjected the Kirkuk - Ceyhan to sabotage attacks several times since 2003 and frequently interrupted due to technical problems.
Iraq exports through the Turkish pipeline between 400 to 450 thousand barrels per day, while the bulk of the exported oil through the port of Basra, south of the country, which requires access to cross the Strait of Hormuz.
Of the 2.165 million barrels per day is the average Iraqi exports last year were exported around 1.7 million barrels per day from the ports of Basra to the Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz.
"I've put in the cabinet activation export line strategic passes through Saudi territory, and stalled for many years," noting that "Iraq did not discuss directly with the Saudi side of this matter, but it is certain that there will be positive signals in this matter."
Shukri and that "this holds all the countries of the region, especially countries that import oil from Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait."
He announced Iran's ambassador to the United Nations earlier that his country would not seek to close the strategic Strait of Hormuz, but if you try a foreign power to "tighten the screws" on Tehran in its nuclear program.
He said Shukri, "Unfortunately, Iraq has not yet been able to build an infrastructure that diversity can be a way to export oil. So far, the pipeline with Syria is not a factor, and the capacity of the pipeline with Turkey are still low."
The Iraqi Planning Minister said earlier that the closure of the Strait of Hormuz would cut oil exports to Iraq by half.
Iraq produces 2.9 million barrels of oil per day, and emits more than two million, but these rates are still lower than it was during the former regime, and oil revenues constitute 94 percent of the country's revenues.
It also convey Iraq currently has about 15 thousand barrels per day of crude oil in the trucks to Jordan.
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012 18:46
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Twilight News / The Ministry of Planning, on Wednesday, they developed alternative plans to export oil through a number of directions and means in the event of closing the Strait of Hormuz, which is the passage of the President of Iraq's oil exports.
Iran has threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz, through which passes from the third seaborne oil trade if West led the movement to prevent the export of Iranian oil to hit the energy sector has paralyzed.
He said Iraqi Planning Minister Ali Shukri told a news conference attended by "Twilight News" that "Iraq has to form a government committees, to discuss what can be done if the closure of the Strait of Hormuz."
The Shukri, "Iraq could increase exports from Ceyhan line through Turkish territory to one million barrels," he said, adding "We also discussed with the Lebanese and Syrian sides in activating the Banias line Tripoli through Syria and Lebanon."
And subjected the Kirkuk - Ceyhan to sabotage attacks several times since 2003 and frequently interrupted due to technical problems.
Iraq exports through the Turkish pipeline between 400 to 450 thousand barrels per day, while the bulk of the exported oil through the port of Basra, south of the country, which requires access to cross the Strait of Hormuz.
Of the 2.165 million barrels per day is the average Iraqi exports last year were exported around 1.7 million barrels per day from the ports of Basra to the Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz.
"I've put in the cabinet activation export line strategic passes through Saudi territory, and stalled for many years," noting that "Iraq did not discuss directly with the Saudi side of this matter, but it is certain that there will be positive signals in this matter."
Shukri and that "this holds all the countries of the region, especially countries that import oil from Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait."
He announced Iran's ambassador to the United Nations earlier that his country would not seek to close the strategic Strait of Hormuz, but if you try a foreign power to "tighten the screws" on Tehran in its nuclear program.
He said Shukri, "Unfortunately, Iraq has not yet been able to build an infrastructure that diversity can be a way to export oil. So far, the pipeline with Syria is not a factor, and the capacity of the pipeline with Turkey are still low."
The Iraqi Planning Minister said earlier that the closure of the Strait of Hormuz would cut oil exports to Iraq by half.
Iraq produces 2.9 million barrels of oil per day, and emits more than two million, but these rates are still lower than it was during the former regime, and oil revenues constitute 94 percent of the country's revenues.
It also convey Iraq currently has about 15 thousand barrels per day of crude oil in the trucks to Jordan.
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