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Oil policy in Iraq: the failure of the Federal .. The success of the region
Posted 18/08/2012 11:34 PM
Vian Farouk *
Marked propensity of the federal government sharply towards the central government, despite the manifestation of democratic institutions and electoral mechanisms, Parliament and the constitution, which refers in the first article that Iraq is a state and a federal system of government is republican, representative (parliamentary) democratic ... But what concerns us here is the attempts by the federal government block the plans and programs developed by the Kurdistan Regional Government to invest in oil; as long as I stood deduced from any oil contract concluded by the region with foreign companies, have tried the federal government, and the endeavor of hard, legitimize the absolute control of the projects and oil contracts in Kurdistan over the draft oil and gas that the government is trying to pass since 2007, but the Kurds and others strongly objected to the draft submitted by the government as inconsistent with the Constitution and the rights of the Kurds; therefore warned the regional president (Barzani) the growth of the central tendency. In the opinion of the Kurdistan Alliance bloc that «the draft law of oil and gas provided by the Council of Ministers contains a lot of abuses to the system approved by the Federal Constitution ..».
Oil project in Kurdistan
And the observer's like the oil in Iraq will find that the main concern of the Deputy Prime Minister for Energy, Mr. Hussein Al-Shahristani is the launch of warnings and threats for companies that conclude oil contracts with the region, but it is interesting to consider that these companies did not heed these warnings and continued in the implementation of contracts, including the giant U.S. « Exxon Mobil », and the greater the threat, the number of companies operating in the region, the region was able to conclude a contract with American company« Chevron »and the French company« Total », as well as the Russian company« Gazprom ».. Means immersing the federal government in its oil policy and an utter failure in this aspect, as it insists these giant companies to continue their contracts with the region and without any indifference to the threats, and this confirms that there is a failure in the oil policy of the Federal and the reluctance by the giant companies to deal with the Iraqi government, which Iraq has made it repulsive environment for investment, and Orbiter finds that the fourth round of licensing was not the only sign three decades of the 12 contracts open for bid, what do you discern that only giant companies' reluctance to deal with running the file from the oil in Iraq? It is still there with the mentality of thinking of a centralized economy, and management of the oil policy according to the vision of the former regime .. The majority of employees in the organization of the oil they had imbibed the culture of the central administration.
In spite of this, the intervention of Prime Minister sent a letter to President Barack Obama urging him to intervene in order to dissuade the company «Exxon Mobil» from continuing its contract with the region, but the answer was implicitly recognized the constitutionality of the contract between the company and the region, but it is surprising that no Iraq's parliament objected or been held accountable for the failure of the Office of Energy Affairs and the Ministry of Oil in the oil policy, and explain the reluctance of giant companies from doing business with the federal government, which would pull out and put emphasis on the kind of relationship with the international will and may cause the weakening of the international role of Iraq. And being of a relative reduction of the U.S. diplomatic representation in Iraq is probably the signals from Washington to the discontent of the poor to deal with them, which applies a negative and at different levels ..
On the opposite side succeeded the region in his oil, and rising oil contracts with corporate giants, but proof of this, as well as foreign investor confidence the laws of the region and its policy successful, stable and constitutionality of the contracts entered into by the region, which correspond with the constitutional articles 111 and 112 and 115, and Erbil going ahead with the further contracts with corporate giants.
Drastically, said: «the region will be able to export directly from the oil fields in the month of August of next year .. And Kurdistan will be responsible for the export of its oil, which will remain Iraqi oil ». There are a number of promising projects in the field of energy are being implemented in the Kurdistan region, because there are political management successful, plan and develop programs studied and work in a spirit of belonging, loyalty and levels of integrity acceptable, and the successes achieved only Massadik, the companies are big does not deal Barashy and commissions. And success in the region's oil policy in the best interests of Iraq, as the region's share is 17 per cent and the region is committed to this, and flooding is for all Iraqis.
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