Atrushi: Kurdistan oil to Turkey will be issued if Baghdad continued economic blockade

Alsumaria News - 01/31/2013 - 4:14 pm


Alsumaria News / Baghdad
Threatened Kurdistan Alliance MP Farhad Atrushi, Thursday, that the Kurdistan oil to Turkey will be issued if Baghdad continues to impose political pressure and economic blockade in respect of petroleum products.

Said Atrushi in an interview for "Alsumaria News", "export of crude oil from the region to Turkey does not exist, and the insistence of the federal government that the province exported oil without its consent is inaccurate and untrue," adding that "to accuse the region to export oil in large quantities to Turkey political exploitation and confuse and mislead the public opinion. "

Atrushi warned that "in case the federal government continues to political pressure and economic embargo on the region on oil derivatives, I am sure that the province will resort to other methods, including the export of oil to Turkey even if by tanks and trucks."

Atrushi stressed that "the Kurdistan Regional Government is required to provide oil derivatives to the citizens and we have no choice but one way, namely send crude oil to Turkey and replaced with oil derivatives such as kerosene and gasoline cars."

He Atrushi that "power plants in the region, which produces electrical energy up to 3000 MW needs fuel to run, and the federal government and for years do not pay and do not provide the fuel no money to buy it, as provided by the rest of the power stations in the provinces of the country."

The Oil Minister Abdul Karim and coffee confirmed, in (January 27, 2013), that the odds of his ministry with the KRG on oil exports "very deep," adding that export region for crude oil in large quantities to Turkey a "red line", as revealed from the start to export oil from the Blackjack II.
And declared Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz, in (July 13, 2012), that Turkey began importing between 5 and 10 trucks per day of crude from northern Iraq, noting that those quantities may increase to between 100 and 200 trucks a day, as pointed out that Turkey is also in talks with the Kurdistan Regional Government in northern Iraq on direct sales of natural gas to Turkey.

While assuring Office of the Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Affairs Hussain al-Shahristani, in (July 14 2012), that the consent of Turkey on the import of crude oil from Kurdistan would hurt economic relations between the two countries, stressing that the non-delivery of the region crude oil to the federal government caused a loss of Iraq eight billion and $ 500 million .
The origin of the ancient dispute renewed between the governments in Baghdad and Erbil, due to the oil contracts concluded by the region and which Baghdad deems illegal, while the region say they are based on the Iraqi constitution and the bilateral agreements signed with the federal government.


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