Home
Shahristani: Kurdistan has not fulfilled its obligations and imports a small proportion to their share of the budget
02/04/2012 15:48
Baghdad, April 2 (Rn) - Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Affairs, said on Monday that the Kurdistan Regional Government has not adhered to the agreement with the federal government, which takes on its impact on the proportion of 17% of the state budget, while the Minister of Oil that company the stricken Mobil decided to freeze their contracts in the Kurdistan region has been returned to participate in the fourth round of licensing. "
Shahristani said at a news conference that "the Kurdistan Regional Government did not comply with the federal government in the export of oil is 175 thousand barrels a day."
He added that he "is not entitled to the Kurdistan region to stop the export of oil indefinitely because it is contrary to the Constitution and the detriment of the state budget and confuse the Iraqi economy."
And al-Shahristani said "losses of Iraq because of lack of delivery of imports of oil produced in Kurdistan amounted to 3 billion and $ 450 million," adding that "the Iraqi government of the Federal will not initiate the implementation of projects without their consent because oil belongs to all Iraqis, not the property of their province or territory."
The Ministry of Natural Resources in the Kurdistan region has announced yesterday suspended all exports of oil from the region until further notice because of the "obligation" to the federal government to pay the dues of foreign oil companies operating in the region.
But the Iraqi government agreed on Wednesday (3/28/2012), to pay 650 billion dinars as receivables for oil companies operating in the Kurdistan region, while the Ministry of Finance announced the allocation of more than two billion dollars within the budget year 2012, for the payment of all oil companies operating in Iraq.
Shahristani said that "the Kurdistan region did not provide oil produced in the Region during the years 2010 and 2011, which would cause a deficit in the budget," noting that "the value of oil produced during the last year, 2011 3 billion and 597 dollars, while the value of oil produced in 2010 amounted to two billion and $ 102 million, for a total of 5 billion and $ 650 million over two years, as well as the production of other years, "noting that such amounts exceed the amounts claimed by the region."
And al-Shahristani said "Kurdistan gets 17% of the general budget of any of the oil wealth of Kirkuk, Iraqi and contrast it does not provide 5% or less of the oil produced in the territory to Iraq."
The Commission on oil and energy that the Iraqi government's decision last payment of dues to foreign companies operating in the Kurdistan region has provided an important stimulus for the advancement of the production region.
The Iraqi Finance Minister Rafie al-Issawi in a press conference on the sidelines of Baghdad, said "the Iraqi government has allocated 650 billion dinars within the budget year 2012, for the payment of oil companies operating in the Kurdistan region," stressing that "the disbursement will be after the audit."
For his part, Iraqi Oil Minister Abdul Karim and coffee that "the region's oil sales that have not submitted to the government amounted to five times the value of the receivables claimed by."
He added that "the stricken company Mobil has decided to freeze their contracts in the Kurdistan region has been returned to participate in the fourth round of licensing," saying that by saying "I will not allow any company that deals with the territorial Government in the implementation of oil projects in other provinces
Because it is a violation of the constitution. "
At a time in which he called Laibi Government of the Territory to adopt a strategy of coordination with the federal government stressed that "oil wealth, according to the Constitution belongs to all Iraqis, so it can not be unique to the territorial Government in management decisions in the development of oil fields and ignore the role of the federal government in this regard. "
And issue the Kurdistan region of approximately 60 thousand barrels of oil a day, but the demands of the export of 175 thousand barrels per day according to what was agreed upon in the federal budget for the current year.
And threatened the Kurdistan Regional Government of the Federal Government on 26 of this March, to halt oil exports if Baghdad did not pay dues of production companies.
Since approval of the Iraqi Constitution, such as oil and gas law the most outstanding issues between Baghdad and Erbil, which is no less important for decision makers in the region on Article 140 of the Constitution relating to the disputed areas.
The dispute is between Arbil and Baghdad on 41 oil contracts signed by the Government of the Territory since 2007 and now Baghdad and described the absence of transparency in the signature.
Iraq hopes to raise its oil exports for the current year to 2.6 million barrels per day, of which 175 thousand barrels from the fields of the Kurdistan region. The total summed daily production of oil in Iraq, recently the level of three million barrels. Oil accounts for about 94% of the proceeds of the country, where Iraq has huge oil reserves estimated at 115 billion barrels, is thought - according to estimates - that Iraq comes third in the world in terms of the size of oil reserves after Saudi Arabia and Iran.
From: Jafar Allonan, the Open: Joseph Karwan
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
02/04/2012 15:48
Baghdad, April 2 (Rn) - Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Affairs, said on Monday that the Kurdistan Regional Government has not adhered to the agreement with the federal government, which takes on its impact on the proportion of 17% of the state budget, while the Minister of Oil that company the stricken Mobil decided to freeze their contracts in the Kurdistan region has been returned to participate in the fourth round of licensing. "
Shahristani said at a news conference that "the Kurdistan Regional Government did not comply with the federal government in the export of oil is 175 thousand barrels a day."
He added that he "is not entitled to the Kurdistan region to stop the export of oil indefinitely because it is contrary to the Constitution and the detriment of the state budget and confuse the Iraqi economy."
And al-Shahristani said "losses of Iraq because of lack of delivery of imports of oil produced in Kurdistan amounted to 3 billion and $ 450 million," adding that "the Iraqi government of the Federal will not initiate the implementation of projects without their consent because oil belongs to all Iraqis, not the property of their province or territory."
The Ministry of Natural Resources in the Kurdistan region has announced yesterday suspended all exports of oil from the region until further notice because of the "obligation" to the federal government to pay the dues of foreign oil companies operating in the region.
But the Iraqi government agreed on Wednesday (3/28/2012), to pay 650 billion dinars as receivables for oil companies operating in the Kurdistan region, while the Ministry of Finance announced the allocation of more than two billion dollars within the budget year 2012, for the payment of all oil companies operating in Iraq.
Shahristani said that "the Kurdistan region did not provide oil produced in the Region during the years 2010 and 2011, which would cause a deficit in the budget," noting that "the value of oil produced during the last year, 2011 3 billion and 597 dollars, while the value of oil produced in 2010 amounted to two billion and $ 102 million, for a total of 5 billion and $ 650 million over two years, as well as the production of other years, "noting that such amounts exceed the amounts claimed by the region."
And al-Shahristani said "Kurdistan gets 17% of the general budget of any of the oil wealth of Kirkuk, Iraqi and contrast it does not provide 5% or less of the oil produced in the territory to Iraq."
The Commission on oil and energy that the Iraqi government's decision last payment of dues to foreign companies operating in the Kurdistan region has provided an important stimulus for the advancement of the production region.
The Iraqi Finance Minister Rafie al-Issawi in a press conference on the sidelines of Baghdad, said "the Iraqi government has allocated 650 billion dinars within the budget year 2012, for the payment of oil companies operating in the Kurdistan region," stressing that "the disbursement will be after the audit."
For his part, Iraqi Oil Minister Abdul Karim and coffee that "the region's oil sales that have not submitted to the government amounted to five times the value of the receivables claimed by."
He added that "the stricken company Mobil has decided to freeze their contracts in the Kurdistan region has been returned to participate in the fourth round of licensing," saying that by saying "I will not allow any company that deals with the territorial Government in the implementation of oil projects in other provinces
Because it is a violation of the constitution. "
At a time in which he called Laibi Government of the Territory to adopt a strategy of coordination with the federal government stressed that "oil wealth, according to the Constitution belongs to all Iraqis, so it can not be unique to the territorial Government in management decisions in the development of oil fields and ignore the role of the federal government in this regard. "
And issue the Kurdistan region of approximately 60 thousand barrels of oil a day, but the demands of the export of 175 thousand barrels per day according to what was agreed upon in the federal budget for the current year.
And threatened the Kurdistan Regional Government of the Federal Government on 26 of this March, to halt oil exports if Baghdad did not pay dues of production companies.
Since approval of the Iraqi Constitution, such as oil and gas law the most outstanding issues between Baghdad and Erbil, which is no less important for decision makers in the region on Article 140 of the Constitution relating to the disputed areas.
The dispute is between Arbil and Baghdad on 41 oil contracts signed by the Government of the Territory since 2007 and now Baghdad and described the absence of transparency in the signature.
Iraq hopes to raise its oil exports for the current year to 2.6 million barrels per day, of which 175 thousand barrels from the fields of the Kurdistan region. The total summed daily production of oil in Iraq, recently the level of three million barrels. Oil accounts for about 94% of the proceeds of the country, where Iraq has huge oil reserves estimated at 115 billion barrels, is thought - according to estimates - that Iraq comes third in the world in terms of the size of oil reserves after Saudi Arabia and Iran.
From: Jafar Allonan, the Open: Joseph Karwan
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
