Government: No agreement with Erbil on the export of oil

08/06/2012 0:00

KRG confirms it will stop its exports of new end of the month
Baghdad - morning
denied the government and the existence of an agreement with Erbil on the mechanism of export of oil, while the back of the Kurdistan region to the threat to stop exports if it did not pay the central government dues of foreign companies.

Ali al-Moussawi, a media adviser to Prime Minister : it «so far there is no agreement with the Kurdistan region on the mechanism of export oil», adding that «the announcement by the Government of the region to resume oil exports is a good thing, but it was not supposed to stop the export already».

He said al-Musawi in a press statement the need to «is calculated by the last period in which to stop the export of oil and settlement», pointing out that «the Kurdistan when you say that they can export 200 thousand barrels per day in the future is a natural thing but the thing is not normal is the discontinuity which must be justified» .

The Kurdistan Regional Government announced last week it would resume oil exports during the first week of August now, after nearly four months after the suspension, indicating that the decision was aimed at building confidence between the Territory and the federal government and address the problems relating to oil and gas in Iraq, also expressed the hope that the response of the government Federal move, and pay for the oil companies and the implementation of the points that were agreed upon. However, the region returned yesterday waved to stop its oil exports by end of August in case of non-payment of dues of foreign oil companies operating in the region by the federal government.

A statement of the Kurdistan Regional Government by the Minister of natural resources and wealth in the Kurdistan region drastically to say: «in order to boost confidence between Baghdad and Erbil, and to address problems related to the file of the oil and gas, the provincial government to resume oil exports in coordination with Baghdad since the beginning of the month, through the export quantities of up to 100 thousand barrels of crude oil a day, but the region will stop its oil exports in the event of non-payment of Baghdad dues to companies oil operating in the region ». He added that« the export of oil will last for one month, and in the case of non-payment of dues of the oil companies will Arbil, the night of 31 of the current month to stop the export process », pointing out that« the administrative head of the company Kinl Energie Tony Hayward said in a letter to Hawrami: that his company had not received the majority of its receivables from the export of oil for the period from 2009 to 2011 of the Baghdad government, and this is a major impact on the activities of the company », he says.

For his part, former oil minister Ibrahim Bahr al-Ulum that the continuation of the French company Total holding them in with the Kurdistan region will put in the blacklist, as happened with the Exxon Mobil and deprived entirely of its stake in the Halfaya field in Maysan. Uloum said in a statement quoted by the agency news: The «Central Government is determined to take one position with respect to any foreign company or an Arab sign contracts oil with the Kurdistan region without its consent by placing them in the black list and depriving them of all their dues and prevent them from investing in any patch of Iraq », indicating that the central government will put oil company Total French on the blacklist as it did not back away from its contract with Kurdistan. He added that the development of Total French in the black list to be established in big trouble as a result deprived of all dues and its share in the Halfaya field in Maysan, the company will come out of Iraq without any profit, noting that the central government has already warned of this company, but insists on contracting with the region.

He went on the Sea of Science: The «solution to this crisis with the companies begin to solve the problems between Baghdad and Erbil, in consultation and coordination on the basis of Article (112) of the Constitution which provides in its two first and the second to the central government and the oil-producing provinces and the Kurdistan region by the coordination and consultation in the management of oil wealth and policy-making future ».

Article (112) of the Constitution reads as follows:» First: The federal government will administer oil and gas extracted from current fields with the governments of producing regions and provinces, that the revenues will be distributed in a fair proportion to the population distribution across the country , with a quota for a specified period for affected regions, which deprived them unfairly by the former regime, which were damaged after that, to ensure balanced development in different parts of the country, and shall be regulated by law.

Second: The federal government and governments of producing regions and provinces together will draw up policies strategy for the development of oil and gas wealth, so as to achieve the highest benefit to the Iraqi people, relying most modern techniques of market principles and encouraging investment ». increased Bahr al-Ulum said, that« the agreement of the political blocs to pass the oil and gas law, which put its provisions in 2007 and return to that copy and modify the way to ensure that the interests of Iraq and agreement of the three rings and the center region and the provinces on the solutions and the powers of each party to ensure his rights, and recourse to the Constitution is the best solution to the problem rather than political squabbling and threats continued for five years ».

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