جريدة الصباح - مستويات الإنتاج النفطي مهددة بالهبوطQuote:
Economic : levels of oil production and threatened land
ترجمة: الصباحTranslation : Sabah
Completed quay Basra oil works full speed. This platform for loading giant oil tankers located in the extreme south-eastern Iraqi coast on the Gulf
One of the most important infrastructure facilities in the country. But on the other hand, despite years of reconstruction, the oil production continued to land below the desired objectives result of sabotage and weak management of the fields and corruption. اThe bill remains controversial oil-scale spectrum of the Iraqi people.
Four years after the fall of Saddam's regime, did not contribute Iraq's oil in the first phase of reconstruction of post-war also expected the Bush administration. The oil industry has matched the level before the war and who arrived for a long period to 3.7 million barrels a day Iraq will become a level with a key source of oil to world markets. The pier was built Basra in 1974, after the fall of Saddam, American inspectors found that the treaty is capable of carrying out only limited result of a destroyed home to hold hands and the loss of crude oil and damaged equipment assistance. The reconstruction began at the beginning of 2004.
Sent American Special Inspector reconstruction of Iraq recently established to assess rebuilding oil pier. The Panel issued a ruling against him success. But inspectors also found that the deployment of Lifeboat in the pavement incomplete. In addition, the real success in the dock of Basra on improvements Nizumatih As noted by the Panel. The treaty will not be able to reach its capacity of three million barrels a day to conduct repairs on the pipeline leaks and patches maritime secondary, which brings oil to the pier.
According to experts of the Ministry of Oil, the oil infrastructure in Iraq generally strong need for upgrades and enhancements, according to the inspection team.
And this need can be seen in production levels. In the first quarter of the current year reached Iraqi crude oil production to average 1.95 million barrels per day according to the Inspector sector, and this number is too distant from the Iraqi goal of 2.5 million barrels per day.
Recall the Brookings Institute for Studies in Washington, said that acts of violence have had a major impact on the deterioration of the domestic oil production, with the 400 terrorist attack on the oil pipeline and pumping stations and oil fields since March 2003. But security is not the only problem, Poor management and maintenance of oil reserves are unsuitable for pumps and pipes and the lack of storage facilities in the beach-loading docks in the Gulf have hampered production well, according to a recent report on the Iraqi oil sector prepared (Amy Myers) in the field of energy expert at Rice University.
It points out that the main reason for the lack of oil investment is not a lack of funding, but the politicization of the Oil Ministry and the absence of migration of trained personnel and the presence of weak and corrupt administration in the oil sector.
And Iraq's oil resources remain in the long term significant regional spoils.
And Iraq has 115 billion barrels of proven reserves, not only surpass Saudi Arabia and Canada.
The Iraqi government plans to increase production to 3.1 million barrels a day in 2008. وعند اخذ When taking into account the current problems, this figure is unrealistic as to say American experts. It is necessary to invest between 5 to 10 billion dollars to restore production to its pre-war, and to invest between 15 to 25 billion dollars more to increase production to higher levels, according to Myers.
Supports high prices of oil export revenues of the Iraqi government. It is not likely to affect the flow of Iraqi oil to those prices in the near future, with the increase in the level of Iraqi oil exports may be a significant variable in the international energy markets in the coming years.
* Newspaper Christian Science Monitor