The Ministry of Oil: a gas between the Government of Kurdistan and Germany 's void and illegal
Considered the Oil Ministry, Sunday, that the contract signed by the Kurdistan Regional Government with German RWE to pump gas supplies in the future to the Nabucco pipeline project is invalid and illegal.
The ministry said in a statement issued today that Iraq is exporting crude oil and gas through the Iraqi oil marketing company exclusively and there is no other hand, empowered to sign contracts with international companies or local in this regard.
The statement added no value to any commitments made other than the Ministry of Oil to export gas via the Nabucco pipeline.
He stressed that any contracts or agreements signed outside the legal framework of the officially approved and Marketing Company (SOMO) is considered invalid and illegal.
The statement said the oil ministry had no right to any other contract for the export of crude oil or gas or their derivatives.
The company R . W . German utility RWE AG said Friday it has signed a cooperation agreement with the government of Iraqi Kurdistan to inject future gas supplies to the Nabucco pipeline project.
A statement of the company in Germany by the Minister for Natural Resources in Kurdistan Ashti Hawrami as saying that he can pump up to 20 billion cubic meters per year across the line to supply gas to Turkey and Europe.
The German company is a shareholder in the Nabucco project, worth 7.9 billion euros ( 10.05 billion dollars), which aims to reduce Europe's dependence on Russian gas supplies through the transfer of the Caspian Sea directly to Turkey and Europe.
In the sixth of last May, Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani and his ministry reached an agreement with the provincial government resources on producing oil fields in the Kurdistan region is secured the revenues of oil exported from the region of the country's treasury.
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