He said that the three wanted a reference contained in the law, to make 90% of the oil reserves in Iraq under the control of the National Oil Company consternation of the Kurdish government. He added that recognized «mean we go back to the central system, which has hindered the attraction of foreign investments and in this case we do not need the oil».
Othman stressed that the dispute over the acting oil imports is the desire of the Kurds to pay money to the government of the Kurdistan region directly and not through the Ministry of Finance pointed out that federal «slow central government in the province pay dues paying Kurds to claim so».
Osman pointed out that a high level delegation from the government of Kurdistan, headed Nigervan Barzani, Prime Minister of the province, will visit Baghdad this week to coincide with the visit of the Minister of Oil Hussein Shahrastani to Kurdistan to discuss the new draft law on oil.
Renewed Accord Front, which expressed reservations on the draft law of oil and gas, rejection of the law, said Salim Abdullah spokesperson told «life» The Front «believes that the current situation is not appropriate to approve the bill» pointing out that the Front to consider the new draft law with suspicion and concern, especially as it deals with oil investment, which is the most important element of the Iraqi national income.
Abdullah stressed that the front view of this Act as a catalyst for the division of Iraq and that stems from our belief that federalism and the distribution of wealth to divide Iraq.
He pointed out that the discovery of vast reservoirs of oil and gas in Sunni areas, as recently announced, «would not change our position and we feel that foreign companies have had a role in the approval of the draft law to serve the interests of hand as we reject the call for the law to allocate oil sector».
In turn, criticized Attorney Alehyale Noureddine, a member of the oil, gas and natural resources in Parliament, the draft law, pointing out that it focuses on exploration and production in oil fields discovered not being invested because of the embargo that was imposed on Iraq since 1991. He added that the law focused on the issue of production through contracting with foreign firms also referred to the bill as «contracts and production» pointing out that more than half of the proceeds of these fields «will go to those companies».
He pointed out that «international pressure exercised on the government to raise the level of production to the maximum extent in order to flood the market and reduce the global oil price per barrel to the lowest level for achieving political interests are directed against the oil producing countries».
Meanwhile, the official spokesman for the integrity of carp «life» that the oil sector «witnessed the havoc financially and administratively range during the past four years was the vast smuggling of oil and its derivatives, oil refineries not subject to the central authority».
A carp that the body had received a report from the Inspector-American in the value of money wasted in the oil sector indicates that the Baiji refinery alone witnessed wasting more than $ 1 billion in addition to half a billion dollars in South Refineries.
He attributed the causes of carp financial corruption in the sector that most of the major oil refineries are located in areas not subject to heated control, notably Baiji refinery in the north and oil refineries in southern Basra, and the intensification of the conflict there. Stressing that it is difficult to know the full value of corruption and size.
The newspaper published «York Times» report yesterday issued by the American government accounting office pointed out that employ between one hundred thousand and 300 thousand barrels of lost Iraqi production of two million barrels per day, I mean, so that between five million and 15 million dollars «stealing» daily. The report pointed to the loss of billions of dollars since the American occupation of Iraq in March (March) 2003.
The bill oil new amendment to the previous draft, which is to revive the national oil company of Iraq in addition to the establishment of a joint fund for oil revenues highlighted the axes of this law, in addition to the new division of oil wells, where they will be granted production rights in 52 oil wells in working to the national company, would compete with foreign companies to invest 26 wells human unproductive after alongside Neil exploration licenses.