Oil Law sent to Parliment Today for Approval

Law does not grant oil concessions Americans .. ولا خلافات مع الكوردNo differences with Alcord


25/05/2007م - 6:11 م | عدد القراء: 605/25/2007 - 18:11 | number of readers : 6

الى.Iraqi Oil Minister Hussein Shahrastani, Friday, said that the oil and gas set by the Iraqi government and forwarded to the House for approval is not granted to the United States of any privileges or benefits, and it is the law promotes national unity in the country is the gateway for the zoning and therefore there are no differences with the government of Kurdistan on the proceeds.

".Shahrastani denied in an interview with Al Hayat newspaper in London published Friday, the exercise of American pressure on the Iraqi government to establish law and said, "if the matter was also referred to the law to give preference to American companies in investment, the law of the most stringent laws including oil Libyan law and the laws of other Arab."
".He added : "Iraq does not negotiate under this law with any company for the same so as to give preference to the company without the other, but working through open competition, and any company granted Iraq is the highest payoff will gain and those requested by the national interest, If the American companies willing to give Iraq a higher yield and accept lower proportion of the profits that let them. "

.He pointed out that there was no mention of partnership contracts in production, and this is left to the Federal oil and gas, which is the highest authority in the country headed by the Prime Minister and members of the ministries of oil, finance and planning, the Central Bank Governor, representatives from each province producer of more than 100 thousand barrels per day, These are the ones who decide the supreme interest of the country.
ة ..He explained that the law classified Iraqi fields discovered to three .. ".The first covers all fields of giant is the Iraqi National Oil Company, The second includes the discovered fields and non-productive at the present time but also can be developed and dedicated to the Iraqi oil company, while the third suspending discovered oilfields and away from the stage of production and non-productive now be subject to competing "This means that 80% of the reserves discovered Iraqi dedicated to the Iraqi national company, This nullifies the allegation that the law will pave the foreign companies monopolizing the oil of Iraq. "
".He noted that the content of the law depends distribution of oil resources on all the components of the Iraqi people, without exception, "There is no disagreement with the government of the Kurdistan region, but there are laws with this law from the National Oil Company Act, which replaced the senior officials of the ministry before I Picture, It requires the rebirth of the National Oil Company and activated, and enable them to manage all the major Iraqi fields. "

."Regarding the tasks National Oil Company, which was established recently, and opposed by the Kurdish side, Shahrastani said that "the Kurds did not object to the restructuring of the National Oil Company, but they were not reported by the Energy Commission in the form of a formal They believe that the proportion allocated to the company of large oilfields." He explained that "the oil sector must be run professionally and patriotism have nothing to do with political representation and components social for the Iraqi people and any Iraqi from any sectarian or religious background or nationality, a person of competence, experience and integrity to be assigned this task. "

د".Asked about the nature of current oil output in Iraq and the reasons for the decline of production, he said, "Iraq's potential to the current range between 2.8 and 2.9 million barrels per day, can be lifted as planned and to three million barrels per day, but our refining now covers about half a million barrels. Efforts are being made to add additional modules to improve the performance of the Iraqi refineries and capacity to make 700 to 750 thousand barrels per day to meet increasing demand on oil derivatives in the country. "

وعن".And on the American reports about the loss of billions of dollars through the stages of the production and export of oil during the past four years, he said that the article published in the "New York Times" America spoke of the existence of a difference between 100 and 300 thousand barrels a day between what is and what is the source of a product during the last period, "but the position of the observers assert that this gap in the form of diminished considerably after the assumption of responsibility for the ministry, The figure talking about is the bad readings, and I think that charge from those who preceded me worthy missions ministry. " He continued, "but those accusations are correct and the smuggling 100 thousand barrels needed to port for export is not subject to the control of the Iraqi government, and if there is not subject to a port state control Where is?" .

".He said : "The indictment generally lacks many precisely because of such quantities of smuggled and cited in the report need to be collusion and international port, and forget that the Oil Ministry newly installed meters to measure quantities exported and the supervision of an international company known not happen that differed between meter readings Iraqi and other meters to those companies."
".Ministry experience and provide fuel in the market amid crisis unresolved despite repeated promises, he said, "Yes, there is a severe shortage of oil derivatives in the country, and several reasons, including increased entry of cars that have reached more than a million cars, in addition to the use of generators as well as domestic large generators deployed in the alleys and neighborhoods, in addition to aging refineries oil production is reflected negatively on the production, which does not meet the growing demand, and it must cover the shortfall in imports

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