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Council of Basra, protesting ignored when modifying the contract to develop the Rumaila oil field
09/12/20140
The members of the provincial council in Basra, Thursday, protesting against the oil ministry to amend the contract to develop and operate the Rumaila field, which is one of the largest oil fields in the world without reference to the Council, and waved to sue the ministry if it continues Btafrdha in the management of the oil sector in the province. The head of the legal and administrative in the provincial council, Ahmed Abdul-Hussein said in an interview for "Alsumaria News", "The amendment carried out by the Ministry of Oil on the contract to run the Rumaila oil field involves a clear violation of Article 112 of the Constitution, as well as provincial law No. 21 of 2008 amended , "noting that" the ministry had to approaching the provincial council, consultation and coordination with him before making any amendment to the contract as long as the field is found in Basra. The first paragraph of the constitutional article 112 that "The federal government will administer oil and gas extracted from current fields with the governments of the regions and producing provinces, to be distributed and imports fairly commensurate with the population distribution in all parts of the country," while according to the second paragraph of the same article that "The federal government and the governments of producing regions and provinces together will draw up the necessary strategic policies to develop oil and gas wealth." He called Abdul Hussein and the oil ministry to "not ignore the provincial council again," he said, adding that "the Council has the right to resort to specialized courts, and as he did with the Basra Gas Company when lifting two years ago filed a lawsuit against her, but the decline of the Council for the case to take account of the situation and the difficult conditions experienced the country. "
He stressed that "the Council will not tolerate again with the oil ministry, especially since the ministry is not more careful of the provincial council on the development of the oil industry in Basra."
For his part, Chairman of the Committee of Financial Supervision and follow-up assignments in the Council Ahmed al-Sulaiti in an interview for "Alsumaria News", "The process of amending the contract without coordination and consultation with the provincial council is part of attempts to circumvent the rights of the Iraqi people," explaining that "what is most puzzlement in the contract amendment is to reduce the size of the production peak, while Iraq need to increase oil production. "
Sulaiti pointed out that "the amendments as a whole added privileges to the contracting company (British Petroleum)," adding that "the privileges provided by the amendment if it were declared before signing the contract for the project was probably the share of other oil companies."
In a related context, the provincial council member Ali Shaddad Knight protest note to the Presidency and members of the provincial council about modifying the contract to run the field, and pointed knight within the memo seen by "Alsumaria News", a copy of that, "the ministry amended the decade following the policies of marginalizing, and without reference to the The competent authorities in the province, "asserting that" the oil ministry to submit to the administration of the province, both the executive and legislative copies of the original contract and the amendments made to it, and if it continues the federal government of neglecting the role of the province, we are determined to establish a lawsuit before the competent court, it does not prevent it from oblige the oil ministry to compensate the province for damage to them. "
The Oil Ministry announced, (September 4, 2014), the amendment of the contract to develop and operate the Rumaila oil field, which holds the development and operation of the company "British Petroleum," the British in conjunction with the Chinese National Petroleum Company, and under the amendment became a project period of 25 years instead of 20 years, has also been reduce production peak of 2.00085 million bpd to 2.0001 million barrels a day.
The ministry justified the amendment to adhering to the lack of effect on world oil prices, and to ensure that marketing the quantities produced in the future without difficulties, the ministry also left the door open to future adjustments based on the clause within the contract that allows the parties (the ministry and the company) make adjustments within certain limits.
It is noteworthy that the Rumaila field, which was discovered in 1953 and is located in the desert of Basra province and is bounded on the west border between Iraq and Kuwait is a field front-productive in Iraq by 1.0003 million barrels a day, and so will be the fourth-largest oil field producer in the world.
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09/12/20140
The members of the provincial council in Basra, Thursday, protesting against the oil ministry to amend the contract to develop and operate the Rumaila field, which is one of the largest oil fields in the world without reference to the Council, and waved to sue the ministry if it continues Btafrdha in the management of the oil sector in the province. The head of the legal and administrative in the provincial council, Ahmed Abdul-Hussein said in an interview for "Alsumaria News", "The amendment carried out by the Ministry of Oil on the contract to run the Rumaila oil field involves a clear violation of Article 112 of the Constitution, as well as provincial law No. 21 of 2008 amended , "noting that" the ministry had to approaching the provincial council, consultation and coordination with him before making any amendment to the contract as long as the field is found in Basra. The first paragraph of the constitutional article 112 that "The federal government will administer oil and gas extracted from current fields with the governments of the regions and producing provinces, to be distributed and imports fairly commensurate with the population distribution in all parts of the country," while according to the second paragraph of the same article that "The federal government and the governments of producing regions and provinces together will draw up the necessary strategic policies to develop oil and gas wealth." He called Abdul Hussein and the oil ministry to "not ignore the provincial council again," he said, adding that "the Council has the right to resort to specialized courts, and as he did with the Basra Gas Company when lifting two years ago filed a lawsuit against her, but the decline of the Council for the case to take account of the situation and the difficult conditions experienced the country. "
He stressed that "the Council will not tolerate again with the oil ministry, especially since the ministry is not more careful of the provincial council on the development of the oil industry in Basra."
For his part, Chairman of the Committee of Financial Supervision and follow-up assignments in the Council Ahmed al-Sulaiti in an interview for "Alsumaria News", "The process of amending the contract without coordination and consultation with the provincial council is part of attempts to circumvent the rights of the Iraqi people," explaining that "what is most puzzlement in the contract amendment is to reduce the size of the production peak, while Iraq need to increase oil production. "
Sulaiti pointed out that "the amendments as a whole added privileges to the contracting company (British Petroleum)," adding that "the privileges provided by the amendment if it were declared before signing the contract for the project was probably the share of other oil companies."
In a related context, the provincial council member Ali Shaddad Knight protest note to the Presidency and members of the provincial council about modifying the contract to run the field, and pointed knight within the memo seen by "Alsumaria News", a copy of that, "the ministry amended the decade following the policies of marginalizing, and without reference to the The competent authorities in the province, "asserting that" the oil ministry to submit to the administration of the province, both the executive and legislative copies of the original contract and the amendments made to it, and if it continues the federal government of neglecting the role of the province, we are determined to establish a lawsuit before the competent court, it does not prevent it from oblige the oil ministry to compensate the province for damage to them. "
The Oil Ministry announced, (September 4, 2014), the amendment of the contract to develop and operate the Rumaila oil field, which holds the development and operation of the company "British Petroleum," the British in conjunction with the Chinese National Petroleum Company, and under the amendment became a project period of 25 years instead of 20 years, has also been reduce production peak of 2.00085 million bpd to 2.0001 million barrels a day.
The ministry justified the amendment to adhering to the lack of effect on world oil prices, and to ensure that marketing the quantities produced in the future without difficulties, the ministry also left the door open to future adjustments based on the clause within the contract that allows the parties (the ministry and the company) make adjustments within certain limits.
It is noteworthy that the Rumaila field, which was discovered in 1953 and is located in the desert of Basra province and is bounded on the west border between Iraq and Kuwait is a field front-productive in Iraq by 1.0003 million barrels a day, and so will be the fourth-largest oil field producer in the world.
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