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Maliki: Iraqis are partners in the oil extracted from any point in the country
01/22/2013 12:00 am
Asked Exxon Mobil U.S. to act in accordance to the Constitution
Baghdad morning
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said Iraqi partners in the oil extracted in any point of the country, calling for Exxon Mobil U.S. to act in accordance with the Constitution.
reviewed the Prime Minister during his meeting with his official office yesterday, Chairman and Executive Director Exxon Mobil Rex Tillerson, the company's activity and working conditions in Iraq.
said Maliki, according to a statement issued by his office received »Sabah» copy of it, need to have activity Exxon Mobil consistent with the Iraqi Constitution of the fact that oil belong to all Iraqis.
was Prime Minister warned last year that the contracts Exxon Mobil U.S. with the Kurdistan region represents a gesture seriously, stressing that he would go to the «maximum grades to maintain the national wealth», according to his advisor media Ali al-Moussawi.
signed Exxon Mobil in October 18 of 2011 a contract with the Government Iraq's Kurdistan region to invest six oil fields, some of which falls within the disputed areas in Nineveh, which was rejected by Baghdad and considered illegal.
prime minister added that «the Iraqi partners in the oil extracted in the state point of Iraq can not be partners in Basra and other partners in the other areas, stressing that the oil ministry will do all it can to resolve the problems and obstacles to the work of oil companies operating in Iraq, though Iraq has a very significant investment opportunities and ripe for investment. Article (111) of the Constitution reads as follows: »Oil and gas are the property of all Iraqi people in all regions and provinces», while Article (112) as follows: »First: The federal government will administer oil and gas extracted from current fields with Governments producing regions and provinces, to be distributed their imports fairly commensurate with the population distribution in all parts of the country. For its part, Rex Tillerson keenness his company to continue its work and expand it in Iraq, and it would take important decisions in this area. In the meantime, the Oil Ministry announced that the total exports of Iraqi crude oil in 2012 last reached eight hundred and eighty-six million, eight hundred thousand barrels while the income earned 94 billion and twenty-five million dollars. said ministry spokesman Assem Jihad, Oil's »Center Brief for the Iraqi Media Network»: The «total oil exports Crude for the month of December 2012 last reached seventy-two million eight hundred thousand barrels and reached income earned seven billion five hundred and one and fifty million dollars ». Jihad said that« the exported quantities of crude oil for the month of December last divided between the Basra oil which totaled exports sixty-two million, seven hundred thousand barrels, and that the amounts realized from the sale was estimated six billion, four hundred and ninety-five million dollars ». continued Jihad:« The Kirkuk oil exports amounted to ten million, one hundred thousand barrels and the amounts realized from the sale billion and fifty-six million dollars ».
explained that «rate sales reached (103.7) dollars per barrel », indicating that« quantities above were uploaded by the international oil companies that carry different nationalities's (30) oil company from the ports of Basra and Khor al-Amaya on the Persian Gulf and Turkey's Ceyhan port on the Mediterranean and trucking pelvic to Jordan, adding that «the ministry and through faith in the people briefed on the export operations and the amounts earned him Monthly taken this action.
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