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Kirkuk decided to resort to the Federal Court to ensure the partnership with the Ministry of Oil in the development of the fields
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Council decided Kirkuk province to resort to the Federal Court, demanding the right to participate with the Oil Ministry and not to allow any company to invest in the fields of Kirkuk oil. Said a statement issued by the Council, got the (long-Presse), a copy of, "The House of Kirkuk, held today (yesterday) meeting attended by the majority of its members, and discuss the issue of investment in the oil sector, and the involvement of local government in Kirkuk in the policy-making strategy, according to article 112, paragraph II of the Constitution, submitted by the Committee on Energy and oil in the provincial council. "
The decision Kirkuk Provincial Council, after days of visit, is the first of its kind, a delegation from Exxon Mobil, U.S. to hand Kara Hngel in (35 km north-east of Kirkuk, where he met with management standpoint, and explored setting up a camp where, as a prelude to the launch prospecting and exploration in the region next month, in addition to the announcement of the Ministry of Oil in (18 January 2013), and a tentative agreement with the company (BP) British to develop the northern Kirkuk oil field, which suffers from a significant decrease oil production rates. "
The statement added that "the Council, decided, at the request of a number of its members, demanding that the oil ministry attribution of the director general of the North Oil Company, one of the sons of the province of Kirkuk exclusively, according to efficiency."
The senior source in the North Oil Company, told the (long-Presse), in (29 December 2012), for the issuance of a ministerial order to appoint Engineer Samir Salman Tai general manager of the company, succeeding director former engineer Hamdi Abdel Razzaq al-Saadi, who was referred to retire, noting The new director of the sons of Kirkuk and has a lot of experience, as well as being one of the senior officials in the company.
The Council also decided to Kirkuk, according to the statement, "mandated committees energy, legal and financial drafted to separate the petro-dollar budget for the general budget, in preparation to be sent to the House of Representatives to enact a special law petrodollars assignments and coordination with the oil-producing provinces."
The Kirkuk Provincial Council had voted on a proposal to develop oil fields in Kirkuk months ago, but the oil ministry rejected the proposal at the time. The North Oil Company and one of the subsidiaries of the Ministry of Oil, and is one of the largest national oil companies established due to the time of the discovery of oil in Iraq in 1927 in Kirkuk and the start of production in the well number one field Baba Karkar in 1932.
And extending the geographic reach of the North Oil Company, according to its official website, the Turkish border as far north latitude (32.5) degrees south, and the Iranian border in the east to Syrian and Jordanian borders the west, and include yard work Iraqi provinces North and Central, a Kirkuk, Nineveh, Salah Din, Arbil, Sulaimaniya, Dohuk, Baghdad, Diyala and parts of the provinces of Babil, Diwaniyah, (although the existing oil fields in the Kurdistan region of Iraq is not currently subject to the company).
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