Editor: CC | GS Tuesday, 03 نيسان 2012 10:33 GMT
Pipeline to export oil
Sumerian News / Baghdad confirmed the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq, Tuesday, it will not resume oil exports until agreement was reached "comprehensive" with the Government Center on dues territory of Finance. said Natural Resources Minister Ashti Hawrami in a press statement, "The Kurdistan Regional Government is waiting to reach a comprehensive agreement with Baghdad on the policy of payment and benefits oil companies operating in the region. " The Hawrami that "the government will not resume exports of the region's oil prior to reaching a comprehensive agreement." The government of the Kurdistan region of Iraq announced that, in the first of April 2012, for stopping the export of oil to further notice due to financial disputes with Baghdad, saying the latter "did not respect" its obligations to pay the dues of the territory of Finance, while Deputy Prime Minister for Energy, Hussain al-Shahristani (in the April 2, 2012), that the Government of Kurdistan prevented Iraqis from six billion and $ 650 million during the past two years 2010 and 2011 because of its failure to export oil, and expected to reach the deprivation score higher in 2012 now. received the Kurdish government to al-Shahristani, today, describing his accusations have smuggled oil to "false", saying it aims to cover up the "deficit," the central government in the provision of services to citizens, accused the points of an Iraqi did not name the "chauvinism." and had already warned the Iraqi Oil Ministry, in (13 March 2012), substantial losses in the public treasury of the state due to reduced KRG oil exports, but pointed out that the Government of the Territory issued currently has 65 thousand barrels per day, asking them to fulfill their commitments they made on the export of 175 thousand barrels per day and that is developed on the basis of the general budget of the country in 2012. It is noteworthy that the differences between Baghdad and Erbil on Contracts for the region with foreign companies operating in the extraction of oil and oil and gas law are still pending, has began the Region (June 1, 2010), to export oil from fields in a formal, but soon stopped as a result of those differences, and did not continue to export only about 90 days, but resumed in early February of last year, 2011, following a new agreement between the province and Baghdad to be issued the first one hundred thousand barrels per day.
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