Parliamentary Oil: attempts in parliament to pass a draft oil and gas law for vote

2016/06/11 | 15:10
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(Encyclopedia of the Day News | Iraq News ) - Economy News special revealed the Commission on oil and energy parliamentary, for the existence of efforts within the parliament to pass a draft oil and gas law for a vote, stressing the importance of the enactment of this law in the current period to the organization of work in the oil and gas extraction industries.

The committee member said Awad al-Awadi, in an interview with the News of Economy, said that the reason for not passing the oil and gas law in the two previous parliamentary sessions is a political and not a technical, noting that some of the blocks and authorities see that the law is passed oppose political and partisan interests.

He said al-Awadi, that there are efforts from within the Oil and Energy Committee to prepare a new draft agreed upon by all the political blocs to be passed in parliament and vote on the law soon, stressing the importance of legislation to regulate the work in the oil and gas extraction industries, as well as to end the differences between the governments of the center and the provinces and the region on oil.

She had announced that the Iraqi government, the 28th of August, 2011, on the ratification of the draft oil and gas law, and decided to submit them to Parliament for approval, while announced at the time deputy prime minister for the former energy Hussain al-Shahristani office, on the second of July 2011, that the government has introduced some amendments to the draft oil law, which is long overdue and reviewed by the energy Committee of the Cabinet, and since that time he was the inclusion of the House of Representatives has not been discussed or even put to read because of the intensification of the dispute it, particularly by the Kurdistan Alliance and a coalition of state law.

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