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Proposed the establishment of the Board of Oil and Gas Top involving local governments
Date: Sunday 09/23/2012 07:53 AM
Baghdad / Ahmed Abed Rabbo
suggested a number of parliamentarians and experts of oil professionals form a higher council for oil and gas takes it upon himself to organize the country's oil wealth management through the adoption of the oil and gas law, stressing the need to involve all provinces in the Council.
A member of the Commission on oil and energy parliamentary Furat al-Shara's (range): There should be a big role for local governments in the oil law and Alghazan through the formation of joint committees between the Government Center and territory and local governments, explaining that the oil is in the provinces of the country all but differently, so have to be an actual post provinces in economic decision-making, as the oil sector is the backbone of the national economy.
Shara revealed the formation of a committee to choose a draft law of oil and gas, pointing out that the committee includes the oil and gas as well as the Legal Committee in the House of Representatives would consider choosing the appropriate draft law of oil and gas.
For his part, former Rep. Abdul Hadi al-Hassani to the need to form a higher council for oil and gas takes it upon himself to determine the contracts signed with international companies in terms of the legal framework and its kind as well as creating an infrastructure specialist oil industry such as the development of refineries and create a national oil company.
He said Hassani's (range): You must support the Iraqi oil sector through private involvement in licensing rounds announced by the Ministry of Oil, pointing out that the latter refused to deal with the private sector preferred contracting with foreign companies.
A number of economists that the marginalization of the regions and provinces in the oil and gas law weakens the position of Iraq in OPEC, pointing out that the lack of involvement of the regions and provinces in the policy-making the country's oil and expand its powers weakens the position of Iraq's OPEC because it depends on the political diversify Leaders oil. "
At the same time warned oil expert Hamza jeweler, to pass the draft law of oil and gas for the year (2007) in the House of Representatives for a vote as containing mines ticking stomach to explode as he put it, stressing that the project and the proposed law submitted by the government and the House of Representatives are best suited to provide one to the Council the vote that two closely to the views of parliamentary blocs (90%).
He said the jeweler, according to the Agency (news): The draft law of oil and gas provided by the federal government in February (2007) where paragraphs filled with mine, and the past five years, according to the problems of oil between the Governments of the region and the center revealed many things and it turned out that the paragraphs contained in that draft were not enough high and foggy, There can be passed at the current time for a vote.
He added: The draft law submitted by the federal government in the year (2011) and the proposed law prepared by the Commission on oil and energy parliamentary two fittest to provide one to the House of Representatives for a vote, because two full conformity to the views and proposals of all the blocks and the federal government and the oil-producing provinces and the region by ( 85% - 90%), and the remaining percentage (5% - 6%) centered point of contention between the Governments of the region and the center.
Oil expert called to be negotiated between the Governments of the region and the center on the points of difference to pass the oil and gas law for the year (2011) to support and develop the Iraqi oil sector.
He pointed out: that if the adoption of a draft law of oil and gas and set the paragraph prevents deal of foreign oil companies with oil-producing provinces and the region, the fate of companies have yet to negotiate with them and make some concessions to them with the consent of the Federal Government to convert their contracts oil from post to service contracts.
The Ministry of Oil has announced that crude oil inventories in the country was 505 billion barrels of discovered fields that $ 66 oil fields, with total recoverable reserves of 143 billion barrels of oil.
Iraqi Oil plans to increase its exports during the next six years to 12 million barrels per day after obtaining the approval of the world's oil (OPEC).
Article (111) of the Constitution states that "oil and gas are owned by all the people of Iraq in all the regions and governorates," while Article (112) states that "The federal government will administer oil and gas extracted from current fields with the governments of producing regions and provinces, on the that distributes its revenues equitably in proportion to the population distribution in all parts of the country. "
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