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Parliamentary sources: Government Do not have the ability to find alternatives to the Strait of Hormuz to oil exports
On: Saturday 03/10/2012 9:42
Baghdad / follow-up long
said the Commission on oil and energy in the House of Representatives 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 government had 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 tension 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 vital a response if taken.
A member of the the Commission on oil and energy Furat al-Shara told the Kurdish news agency (Rn) that "the Iraqi government does 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 Turkish port of Ceyhan and then to the European market. "
He said, "to find alternatives to 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 of the closure of the Strait as it passes around 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 Gulf Arab to transport its oil to customers around the world that proceeded Iran to implement its threat to 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.
used Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iran Iraq and the United Arab Emirates Strait of Hormuz in the transfer of oil to customers around the world. On a related matter, member of State of Law Coalition MP Ali Falh that the sources of oil pipeline by Saudi Arabia could be resolved even if it is through financial demands. said Falh (for the Agency news ): The issue of the confiscation of oil pipeline need to be a joint dialogue between the two countries as it can not be the subject through the one-sided. He Falh: If Saudi Arabia's financial claims on Iraq can be resolved in accordance with a new mechanism, pointing out that Iraq is still aspires to turn off all of Iraq's debt on the grounds that caused by the phase has ended. The Government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia recently confirmed its unilateral decision, the confiscation of the Iraqi pipeline passing through its territory, which has agreed to create it during the Iran-Iraq war, to diversify its export outlets Iraq for its oil to world markets, after exposure of the Iraqi oil tankers and foreign threat from the Iranian side, which is in the waters of Persian Gulf or near the loading docks of the FAO or deep-water port at Khor al-Amaya. and implemented company of Japan's Mitsubishi F - T - The Hungarian draft tube Iraqi Saudi Arabia, which completed its first phase in November 1985 a length of 640 km, Qatar 48 knots, while completed the second phase In early September 1989 a length of 950 km, Qatar 56 knots from the meeting point with the tube Saudi Arabia on the southern border of Iraq with Saudi Arabia, on his way to the Red Sea card College of 1.0006 million bpd, up from 500 thousand barrels. At the end of the eighties of last century Iraq has become has power export by pipeline is 7 million barrels a day, but could not invest more than 40 percent of this energy, note that the energy export fields in the south alone reached 3.2 million barrels a day. On September 19, 1989, sailed the first tanker loaded with oil Iraqi of the tube Iraqi Saudi, after the completion of phases at a total cost of two billion and 200 million dollars. In the meantime, a member of the Committee on Energy and Oil Bahaa al Hadi Ahmed said Iraq's accession to the organization Transparency International in oil transactions will bring to Iraq his confidence in the country and outside through the auditing and knowledge of exports and imports of oil. Ahmed said (of the Agency news): that Iraq's accession to the organization Transparency International in oil transactions of State is necessary at the present time because it will restore public confidence in the Iraqi state and the federal government to reveal to them everything that is happening from oil transactions both at the level of contracts with companies World or the amount of revenues attributable to the country, in addition to the amount of oil exported to abroad. He continued: In addition to that this organization will improve the reputation of Iraq among countries in the world the fact that this organization shared by the top oil-producing countries in the world that are subject to international standards to the issue of transparency, confirming that it is ease of operations of financial and administrative corruption that occur in oil transactions internal and external. and had announced the Secretariat of the International Initiative for transparency in extractive industries, for issuing the first report of the proceeds of export of Iraqi crude oil for the year (2009), which reported the organization match the financial accounts at the level of revenue for the quantities exported of oil
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