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Still all the reports so far indicate that the oil ministry is going ahead with plans to open the first session of the contract in the oil extraction sector, which will include producing fields, mainly after the investment was more than eight billion dollars in Iraqi funds from the investment to increase production of these fields, most of which is classified as a giant fields.
These include the round of eight fields of oil and gas fields are Rumaila North and South, Kirkuk, Zubair, West Qurna, Fakkah, Abu Ghraib, Bazargan, Bai Hassan, a crutch, and Mansourieh is expected to announce the names of the foreign companies winning contracts to develop these fields, on 29-30 of June. But what is striking is the insistence of the Ministry of Oil to continue in this path even though the majority of Iraqis and foreign experts on the illegality of such contracts, in addition to the damage it will inflict grave economic interests of Iraq.
With regard to the legal aspect, we refer only to the opinion of a group of Iraqi legal experts, who confirmed in a report published in the Al-Sabah newspaper on 6-20-2009 that such a giant foreign investment must be linked to the text of the new Iraqi constitution, a federal law with the legislation of the oil and gas as a general rule, or if the basis of previous laws that are still valid, it is necessary to seek a special law in all new contracts through the approval of the Iraqi Council of Representatives for each contract, which refuses to play by the Ministry of oil so far, claiming that the approval of the Minister sufficient to be considered the legality of these contracts are legal, and this is clearly a blatant violation of the constitution the Council of Ministers because the Ka is known, on the ****utive authorities in the new Iraq, and the House of Representatives is the sole legislative powers, which has a law or amend legislation, including the the Constitution itself.
The Iraqi legal experts also said the oil ministry could not Stumping on the basis of previous laws, even if the legal force of such laws as the same condition originally a special law for each case of a contract or agreement (together with the decisions of the dissolved Revolutionary Command Council) in order to approve such an as the final contract, and that the current Iraqi Council of Representatives has been entrusted by the Constitution under the new law all the powers of legislation, we must secure the permission of the House of Representatives approval of any new contract and the Oil Ministry intends to sign with foreign oil companies.
As for the suitability of these contracts for Iraq's economic interests is sufficient to say that more than 90% of the experts and advisers, and technicians of the Ministry of the oil itself as well as to the Commission on oil and gas in the parliament and former minister of oil in Iraq, all opposed to the ministry in this regard to see a real waste of the wealth of the Iraqi people which so far has not seen the best of this fine, despite the promises of wealth and dumped in the communications media optimism issued by the Ministry of Oil.
An example is the opposition of senior officials in the Ministry of Oil to the current destructive trend of the ministry's leadership on the issue of a sensitive and serious interests of the Iraqis hit the heart, just below what the new Director-General of the Southern Oil Company, Mr. Fayyad said that the blessing of good in a letter in the June 10 to the Minister of Oil (That "the normative terms of the contract, which was adopted mainly to contract with foreign companies is not in accordance with the laws and legislation in force and the law of preservation of hydrocarbon wealth No. 84 for the year 1985, in addition to non-approval of the majority opinion in the Oil Ministry on these contracts," Mr. Fayyad also opposed the granting of such grace), giant producing fields to foreign companies after the investment of eight thousand million dollars from the Iraqi treasury to the development of these fields the same, which means the loss of the money in the event of these fields to give foreign companies to develop, which is the same object by a large number of House members who will be the Minister of oil to the questioning of an official of the Council next Tuesday, the twenty-third of this month.
Mr. Fayyad said that the blessing of these contracts will develop a series of restrictions and all the joints on the Iraqi economy and independence of the risk of exposure during the period of twenty years to come.
As for Mr. Jabbar Laibi the former Director-General of the Southern Oil Company has provided the same detailed report to the Minister of Oil in the early becoming oil minister warned of the consequences of which continue in the current approach and the proposal for a package of measures to prevent the occurrence of the clutches of Iraq in the current financial crisis. Mr Laibi Alstratejp criticized the absence of vision of the Ministry of Oil that "It's like driving a car without the mandate of meters or indicators in Aldashbol, and if this continued mismanagement of Iraq may be forced to import crude oil from abroad!!"
The struggle of Mr. Kamel Numan, former Director-General of the Southern Oil Company has been expressed in a letter to the Minister of Oil, on February 22, 2009 similar reservations on the mechanism used to develop Iraqi oil fields, especially with regard to the legality of contracts and the standard elements are certainly not in the interest of Iraq because of "a reluctance to work dimensional wire in the financial and administrative aspects of trade and even with regard to human resources."
In an interview with a former Iraqi oil minister Ibrahim Bahr al-Uloum on the same subjects quoted in number of international life in the 6-16-2009 as saying that "the conditions of the contract to be signed by the higher interest of the harmful, and is working on dismantling and fragmentation of the Iraqi oil companies, rather than support the other hand, "said Uloum that the" conditions of the contract with the winning companies represent a dangerous precedent, as it will give these companies a rate of 75 percent of the administration, operation, and Iraq 25 percent, the country loses control over the management of work and investment." He warned that the first round of licensing the results of which will be announced at the end of this month "in Iraq will enter the complexities of economic, political, administrative and social," saying that "the granting of the fields are mainly produced to foreign companies through long-term service contracts lacked the vision and strategy emphasizes the existence of an imbalance in the oil policy and wasted more time and effort and money. "
He asked Mr. Uloum said: "Is it possible to put the oil ministry in a few months, the licensing round to include approximately 80 billion barrels of proven reserves, Iraq in the international market of the 112 billion barrels ... Confirms the absence of investment philosophy, which depends competitiveness and transparency in order to maximize the benefits "
Before all of this form of the Prime Minister himself a high-level commission to study the reasons for the deterioration of the oil industry in Iraq, and presented its report to the President of the Council of Ministers on 1-31-2009 and took up the responsibility of the Ministry of Oil production fell by 400 thousand barrels per day, explaining that because of "lack of role ministry in the field follow up and implement plans and programs with the production companies of extraction, "and the absence of" clear vision of the leadership of the ministry to adopt a specific policy and reluctance to take the appropriate decision."
It is clear that the opinions and objections of the Iraqi oil experts and legal objections in addition to the members of the House of Representatives and former oil ministers, and senior officials present at the Oil Ministry itself, are all in the picture the tragic situation of Iraq's affairs because of failure of the Ministry of Oil in revolutionizing the first national capacities , and the use of foreign expertise to the Court under contractual agreements to ensure the interests of Iraq over the long term and fill some gaps in the technical and managerial capacity of existing national Iraqi.
The question we must ask of any sane person, not to mention the official, who hold public office leader, why does not try for the leadership of the Ministry of Oil present to listen to the views of experts and professionals who have devastated most of the Iraqis in the age of the industry on the strategic dimensions of the serious interests of the country and its future?
Then why this obstinacy Altcabr and without providing reasonable alternatives that can be rallied around all Iraqis Is it permissible in our democratic system that singles out the new one the most serious decisions that concern the vital interests of the people for generations to come?
We call on the Prime Minister to take the initiative and be patient in this matter until it is reasonable to agree on a mechanism that can be rallied around all Iraqis to safeguard the interests of the people who do not think it Siimana waiting for some extra time, rather than mortgage their future for a period of twenty years to come, particularly as it waited for for a period of six years ago did not receive from the Ministry of Oil but promises and delays, festivals of media and public relations.
As for the oil ministry, we say we understand the unquenchable desire to prove they can raise oil output, but it should not be the measure Trqieia at the expense of the interests of our strategic long-term.
The brothers say in the Ministry of Oil, not even the great move towards own guilty. God and Iraq and kept its people.
* Iraqi academic researcher
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