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Kurdistan Parliament confirms the continuation of the export of oil from the region
06/09/20140
Arbil / straightness newspaper - confirmed for Industry and Energy Committee of the Parliament of the Kurdistan region, on Sunday that oil exports from the region continues, stating that the Government of the Territory borrowed sums of money from foreign oil companies to pay employees' salaries.
The deputy chairman of the Committee Dilshad Shaaban said in a statement that "the process of selling oil continuous region," stressing "the start of a second tanker loaded with oil from the region of the Turkish port of Ceyhan towards global markets during the past two days."
He August that "the financial crisis that has plagued the Kurdistan region due to cut the budget and salaries of employees by the federal government paid the Government of the Territory to borrow money from foreign oil companies to pay employees' salaries," noting that "the Government of the Territory will pay those amounts of oil revenue source."
The naval expert Iraqi Kazem cup erythema confirmed, on Saturday (June 7, 2014), that the marine tanker loaded a cargo of Iraqi oil extracted from fields in the Kurdistan region left the Moroccan territorial waters, indicating that it is adrift without a specific destination in the Atlantic Ocean.
The Ministry of Oil in Baghdad, on Sunday (June 8, 2014), that the losses of the Iraqi economy because of non-delivery of Kurdistan, revenues amounted to 6 billion dollars, noting that what leads him some officials in the Government of the Territory of excuses and justifications "illogical and unrealistic."
Declared Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz, in May last year, directly from Turkey to export oil from Kurdistan to international markets, while the Iraqi government has made a pretext against Turkey to the international jury effect of this announcement.
I left the first shipment was pumped through the pipeline, the coast of Turkey, about two weeks ago aboard the tanker (United Leader Shipp), despite opposition from Baghdad, which resorted to international arbitration because of the right of Turkey facilitated the export of the shipment.
The Iraqi government stresses that the Iraqi Oil Marketing Company (SOMO) is the only one authorized to sell the crude produced by the country, including in Kurdistan.
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