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Baghdad refuses to sell oil from Kurdistan to Turkey and threaten to sue companies and those responsible
Posted 10/01/2014 04:57 PM
Baghdad / follow the Orient: - The Iraqi Oil Ministry, on Friday, refusing to sell crude oil from the Kurdistan region to Turkey, also drew strong protest to Turkey being bucked the tripartite agreement signed in this regard, threatening to sue all the companies and entities that have done so.
The ministry said in a press statement that "the ministry regrets and surprised by the announcement of the Ministry of Natural Resources in the region represented by the so-called institution of marketing oil in Kurdistan about allow the Turkish government represented by the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources and the company Botas using the system pipe-line Iraqi - Turkish pumping and storage of large quantities of crude oil produced in the Kurdistan region without getting the approval of readiness. "the ministry added that" the region will sell the shipment of crude oil, the amount of 2 million barrels in late January / 2014, increasing thereafter to reach 4 million barrels in late February. " She explained that "these quantities and as declared by the Kurdistan region will reach 6 million barrels late March, to settle after that to be in the range (10-12) million barrels during the month of December / 2014," indicating that "the region will be used to move crude oil system line Iraqi-Turkish without getting the approval of the Federal Government of Iraq on that. "ministry confirmed that" the conduct of the Ministry of Natural Resources in the Kurdistan region is a flagrant violation of the provisions of the Iraqi Constitution, the relevant resources of Iraq's natural, and record this Declaration clear violation and unacceptable to the agreement the latter, which happened in the end of the month of December of last year between the federal government and the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government. " A statement the Ministry of Oil said that "technical committee meeting included specialists from the two sides and that it was hoped her to develop mechanisms export amounts allocated from the oils produced in the region mixed with oil of Kirkuk crude from the Turkish port of Ceyhan and through standard contracts for Oil Marketing Company (SOMO) of Federal Ministry of Oil exclusively. "and expressed the Federal Ministry of Oil" and strongly rejected the export declared by the Ministry of Natural Resources in the Kurdistan region and that included the role of the Oil Marketing Company (SOMO) is an observation only. "
It noted the ministry in its statement that it "draws strong protest to the Turkish government for allowing represented by the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources and the company Botas using the system pipe-line Iraqi - Turkish pumping and storage of large quantities of crude oil produced in the Kurdistan region without getting the approval of the federal government of Iraq." She said, "Turkey bucked the tripartite agreement reached between the Turkish side, represented by Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources and the Iraqi side of the stakeholders from the federal government and the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government during the meeting, which was the beginning of the month of December 2013. " The statement said that "the Turkish government violated the pledge which not to allow the export of crude oil produced in the Kurdistan region through the pipeline system only after obtaining the approval of the federal government of Iraq." And showed that "the violation of the Turkish side extends to overturn the terms of the Joint Declaration signed between the two governments in Baghdad on September 19, 2010, which stated that the sovereignty and authorization in the export of hydrocarbon resources of the Iraqi Ikunan exclusively to the Ministry of the Federal Oil and Iraqi Oil Marketing Company (SOMO) and set aside the text of Article 2.4 of the Amendment to the Convention crude oil pipeline agreement signed between the two governments on the same date above, which confirms the content of advertising Joint mentioned. " She stressed the Federal Oil Ministry in its statement that it "official authority vested exclusively export wealth hydrocarbon Iraq, including crude oil and gas represented company SOMO (SOMO) and through standard contracts entered into for this purpose exclusively." And noted that "companies and entities and persons involved in participating conclusion of contracts or Agreements for the sale and purchase of crude oil or gas produced from the fields of the Kurdistan region or from any of the oil and gas fields other in Iraq with views is Oil Marketing Company (SOMO) bear all the legal consequences and criminal implications of this and will be prosecuted on the grounds that those shipments sold have been smuggled Unlike the laws in force. " The Kurdistan regional government, predicted on Thursday (the ninth of January 2014) to send one million barrels at the beginning of its exports of oil through the new pipeline passes in Turkey by the end of the current month of January.
Sources familiar with the energy sector in the Kurdistan region, in the (14 December 2013), the start of tests to pump oil in a new pipeline from Iraq's Kurdistan to Turkey, but it is not scheduled yet to send any exports, meanwhile, announced Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz, on the second of January 2014 for the start of pumping oil from the Kurdistan region of Iraq to the Turkish port of Ceyhan. The Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Hussain al-Shahristani met, in (the second of December 2013), Turkish Energy Minister Steiner Yildiz, and announced Iraq's readiness to meet the needs of Turkey for oil and gas in accordance with the mechanisms and criteria Iraqi approved for Iraqi oil marketing company, stressing that any quantity exported It is state of the oil zone in Iraq should be measured by the Ministry of Oil of Iraq.
The head of the Kurdistan Regional Government Nechirvan Barzani visited Baghdad in (25 December 2013) to discuss outstanding differences between the federal government and the Kurdistan Regional Government and solving the problems between the province and the federal government on the budget and oil revenues from the region. The origin of the ancient dispute between the Governments renewed Baghdad and Erbil to oil contracts concluded by the region and which Baghdad deems illegal, while the region say they are based on the Iraqi constitution and the bilateral agreements with the federal government.
In a related context signed and Oil Minister Abdul Karim and coffee and Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources of Jordan Mohamed Hamed, the minutes of a meeting held in the capital, Amman frame of cooperation in the oil sector between the two countries. The two ministers during the meeting, which was held at the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources of Jordan, "the necessity of activating the joint cooperation between the two countries in the energy sector in general and the oil sector in particular, and stressed the importance of continuing to activate the procedures that promote success in the implementation of joint projects in this regard." They also discussed topics related to increasing amounts of crude oil supplier to Jordan and improved specifications and increased amounts of heavy fuel oil, which will supply to Jordan, along with a project pipeline for the export of Iraqi oil through the territory of Jordanian port of Aqaba., and also discussed, according to a press release issued by the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources of Jordan, in depth in strategic projects between the two countries concerning the refineries and power plants and electricity interconnection in addition to talking about the geological structures shared between the two countries. According to the Jordanian minister, the pipeline project is designed to enable Iraq to export one million barrels a day of Iraqi oil and the supply Jordan with its needs of crude oil estimated at 150 000 barrels per day, noting that the Iraqi side of the announcement of the list of entities eligible at the beginning of last September, wishing the project jointly.
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Posted 10/01/2014 04:57 PM
Baghdad / follow the Orient: - The Iraqi Oil Ministry, on Friday, refusing to sell crude oil from the Kurdistan region to Turkey, also drew strong protest to Turkey being bucked the tripartite agreement signed in this regard, threatening to sue all the companies and entities that have done so.
The ministry said in a press statement that "the ministry regrets and surprised by the announcement of the Ministry of Natural Resources in the region represented by the so-called institution of marketing oil in Kurdistan about allow the Turkish government represented by the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources and the company Botas using the system pipe-line Iraqi - Turkish pumping and storage of large quantities of crude oil produced in the Kurdistan region without getting the approval of readiness. "the ministry added that" the region will sell the shipment of crude oil, the amount of 2 million barrels in late January / 2014, increasing thereafter to reach 4 million barrels in late February. " She explained that "these quantities and as declared by the Kurdistan region will reach 6 million barrels late March, to settle after that to be in the range (10-12) million barrels during the month of December / 2014," indicating that "the region will be used to move crude oil system line Iraqi-Turkish without getting the approval of the Federal Government of Iraq on that. "ministry confirmed that" the conduct of the Ministry of Natural Resources in the Kurdistan region is a flagrant violation of the provisions of the Iraqi Constitution, the relevant resources of Iraq's natural, and record this Declaration clear violation and unacceptable to the agreement the latter, which happened in the end of the month of December of last year between the federal government and the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government. " A statement the Ministry of Oil said that "technical committee meeting included specialists from the two sides and that it was hoped her to develop mechanisms export amounts allocated from the oils produced in the region mixed with oil of Kirkuk crude from the Turkish port of Ceyhan and through standard contracts for Oil Marketing Company (SOMO) of Federal Ministry of Oil exclusively. "and expressed the Federal Ministry of Oil" and strongly rejected the export declared by the Ministry of Natural Resources in the Kurdistan region and that included the role of the Oil Marketing Company (SOMO) is an observation only. "
It noted the ministry in its statement that it "draws strong protest to the Turkish government for allowing represented by the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources and the company Botas using the system pipe-line Iraqi - Turkish pumping and storage of large quantities of crude oil produced in the Kurdistan region without getting the approval of the federal government of Iraq." She said, "Turkey bucked the tripartite agreement reached between the Turkish side, represented by Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources and the Iraqi side of the stakeholders from the federal government and the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government during the meeting, which was the beginning of the month of December 2013. " The statement said that "the Turkish government violated the pledge which not to allow the export of crude oil produced in the Kurdistan region through the pipeline system only after obtaining the approval of the federal government of Iraq." And showed that "the violation of the Turkish side extends to overturn the terms of the Joint Declaration signed between the two governments in Baghdad on September 19, 2010, which stated that the sovereignty and authorization in the export of hydrocarbon resources of the Iraqi Ikunan exclusively to the Ministry of the Federal Oil and Iraqi Oil Marketing Company (SOMO) and set aside the text of Article 2.4 of the Amendment to the Convention crude oil pipeline agreement signed between the two governments on the same date above, which confirms the content of advertising Joint mentioned. " She stressed the Federal Oil Ministry in its statement that it "official authority vested exclusively export wealth hydrocarbon Iraq, including crude oil and gas represented company SOMO (SOMO) and through standard contracts entered into for this purpose exclusively." And noted that "companies and entities and persons involved in participating conclusion of contracts or Agreements for the sale and purchase of crude oil or gas produced from the fields of the Kurdistan region or from any of the oil and gas fields other in Iraq with views is Oil Marketing Company (SOMO) bear all the legal consequences and criminal implications of this and will be prosecuted on the grounds that those shipments sold have been smuggled Unlike the laws in force. " The Kurdistan regional government, predicted on Thursday (the ninth of January 2014) to send one million barrels at the beginning of its exports of oil through the new pipeline passes in Turkey by the end of the current month of January.
Sources familiar with the energy sector in the Kurdistan region, in the (14 December 2013), the start of tests to pump oil in a new pipeline from Iraq's Kurdistan to Turkey, but it is not scheduled yet to send any exports, meanwhile, announced Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz, on the second of January 2014 for the start of pumping oil from the Kurdistan region of Iraq to the Turkish port of Ceyhan. The Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Hussain al-Shahristani met, in (the second of December 2013), Turkish Energy Minister Steiner Yildiz, and announced Iraq's readiness to meet the needs of Turkey for oil and gas in accordance with the mechanisms and criteria Iraqi approved for Iraqi oil marketing company, stressing that any quantity exported It is state of the oil zone in Iraq should be measured by the Ministry of Oil of Iraq.
The head of the Kurdistan Regional Government Nechirvan Barzani visited Baghdad in (25 December 2013) to discuss outstanding differences between the federal government and the Kurdistan Regional Government and solving the problems between the province and the federal government on the budget and oil revenues from the region. The origin of the ancient dispute between the Governments renewed Baghdad and Erbil to oil contracts concluded by the region and which Baghdad deems illegal, while the region say they are based on the Iraqi constitution and the bilateral agreements with the federal government.
In a related context signed and Oil Minister Abdul Karim and coffee and Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources of Jordan Mohamed Hamed, the minutes of a meeting held in the capital, Amman frame of cooperation in the oil sector between the two countries. The two ministers during the meeting, which was held at the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources of Jordan, "the necessity of activating the joint cooperation between the two countries in the energy sector in general and the oil sector in particular, and stressed the importance of continuing to activate the procedures that promote success in the implementation of joint projects in this regard." They also discussed topics related to increasing amounts of crude oil supplier to Jordan and improved specifications and increased amounts of heavy fuel oil, which will supply to Jordan, along with a project pipeline for the export of Iraqi oil through the territory of Jordanian port of Aqaba., and also discussed, according to a press release issued by the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources of Jordan, in depth in strategic projects between the two countries concerning the refineries and power plants and electricity interconnection in addition to talking about the geological structures shared between the two countries. According to the Jordanian minister, the pipeline project is designed to enable Iraq to export one million barrels a day of Iraqi oil and the supply Jordan with its needs of crude oil estimated at 150 000 barrels per day, noting that the Iraqi side of the announcement of the list of entities eligible at the beginning of last September, wishing the project jointly.
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