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Parliamentary committee: We are not able to find alternatives to the Strait of Hormuz
On: Friday 3/9/2012 7:40
Baghdad / range
confirmed the Commission on oil and energy in the Iraqi Council of Representatives on Thursday that Iraq is unable to find alternatives quickly to export its oil as if the closure of the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf.
The Iraqi government announced last month that it decided to develop alternatives to the Strait of Hormuz to transport crude oil to customers around the world, after increasing tensions in the region and Iran's threats to close the strait.
And agreed the EU to impose ban gradually Iranian oil, and the imposition of sanctions on the Bank of Tehran Central cut off funding for its nuclear program, a move that threatened Iran close the Strait of Hormuz, the vital response to them if taken.
A member of the Commission on oil and energy Furat al-Shara told Rn "The government Iraqi Do not have the technical means and technical development of exports tube Ceyhan or increase the number of trucks loaded with crude oil through Jordan as required. "
and added that "The oil ministry has to do a European market and export to the Turkish port of Ceyhan and then to the European market."
and "The alternatives for the Strait of Hormuz and time-consuming and solutions is better to persuade Iran to the seriousness of it on the Iraqi economy in the event threatened to again close the strait. "
and Iraq is the most prominent losers from closing the Straits as passes about 1.7 million barrels per day of oil the country of Hormuz of the total 2.2 million barrels Iraq is exported daily, but the government says it has alternative plans.
The oil marketing company Iraqi government "Sumo" had said weeks ago that Iraq did not plan to find alternatives to the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf to transport its oil to customers around the world that proceeded Iran to implement its threat close the strait.
and increased tensions over the Strait of Hormuz, a major shipping lane for oil in the world in the past few weeks after Iran threatened to close it if the West to impose sanctions on its oil exports.
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