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Oil Minister: start loading oil from the first with a floating port (750) thousand barrels per day
On: Friday 3/9/2012 7:40
Baghdad / range
announced by Iraqi Oil Minister Abdul Karim and coffee for the start of the first load of crude oil shipments from the port float first, which opened last month in the Iraqi territorial waters north of the Gulf city of Basra, about 550 km south of Baghdad. He said Laibi told reporters on the sidelines of a ceremony to open bids for the transfer of petroleum products within the country: today will move one of the oil tankers to stage No. (2) and will start work load after the completion of security procedures and inspection will be the energy loading rate (750) thousand barrels per day.
He added that the oil ministry was waiting for responses from Exxon Mobil to define its position clearly from the contracts signed with the Kurdistan Regional Government to explore for oil and rejected by the Oil Ministry.
He noted the flaw: that the opportunity the company to participate in the licensing round, the fourth to be organized by the Ministry in May depend on the content of responses that are likely to arrive today, adding that the Ministry of Oil has agreed to Norway's Statoil company to sell its stake to the Russian company Lukoil to develop the Western Qurna field after last month expressed its desire to sell its stake in the contract.
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