Kurdistan: Exxon Mobil, Chevron Jaddedta commitment Ptaakedathma us

25-01-2013 | (Voice of Iraq) - Add a comment -
Long-Presse / Arbil

Declared the presidency and the government in the Kurdistan region, on Thursday, that the two major American oil companies, namely Exxon Mobil and Chevron, Jaddedta commitment Ptaakedadtha and work in the region, and comes the news at a time when comments suggest officials Iraqi government issued two days that Exxon Mobil in the process of choosing to work in southern Iraq at the expense of its contracts with Kurdistan.

The prime minister said Iraq's Kurdistan region Nechirvan Barzani in a press conference held in Arbil, Thursday, "The Chairman of the Board of Directors of Exxon Mobil, after visiting Baghdad, went and met with the region Massoud Barzani in Davos, Switzerland," adding, "We are sure they are committed to contracts that they signed with the Kurdistan region, because those contracts are the approval of the Iraqi constitution. "

And Ojadded Barzani confirmed that "contracts with the company comes within the framework of the right granted by the Iraqi constitution for the Kurdistan region, Exxon Mobil announced its commitment with the Kurdistan region in accordance with that."

On the other hand, the transfer of a statement issued by the presidency province in northern Iraq, the deputy director of Chevron U.S. oil Jay Brier, as saying during his meeting with the province Massoud Barzani in Switzerland on the sidelines of participating Balentdy economic in Davos, "The development achieved in the activities of his company in the region during the period the past, "stressing" his company's commitment to a long-term partnership with the Kurdistan Regional Government and its desire to expand the company's business in the region. "

The Ashti Hawrami, Minister of Natural Resources in Kurdistan province, had announced in a press statement on granting the right to work field oil called "Qaradagh the" province of Sulaymaniyah for a U.S. company Chevron, as well as the share of which is bought from other companies.

The head of Exxon Mobil had met last Monday in Baghdad, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, and he was quoted as calling the U.S. company commitment to the Iraqi constitution in its work in Iraq, expressing his country's desire to constantly company in its contract to invest in the field in southern Iraq.

Later media reports quoted a of Baghdad's attempts to lure the giant U.S. company to withdraw from Kurdistan and continue to work in the West Qurna 1 field, for additional benefits.

The Exxon Mobil contract with the Kurdistan region peppered more tension to the convulsive originally relationship between Arbil and Baghdad. That prompted the Iraqi government to warning the American company to choose between working with one of the two sides, and worsened the relationship after Exxon announced search for a buyer for its stake in the West Qurna field.

The complexities of oil to the Kurdistan Regional Government and one of the outstanding contentious files unresolved between Erbil and Baghdad, where latter refuses to recognize, while Arbil defends the legitimacy of contracts and says it is in accordance with the Iraqi constitution.

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