Oil Ministry: tentative agreement to end the oil dispute between Baghdad and Erbil

09/14/2012
Spokesman revealed the Iraqi Oil Ministry, Assem Jihad, the representatives of the federal government and the Kurdistan Regional Government and their meetings continued Thursday to finalize a tentative agreement Alanaa oil dispute between Baghdad and Erbil.

Asim Jihad told Radio Free Iraq that officials from both sides discussed the issue of oil exports from fields in the region and that the Iraqi government pays trillion Iraqi dinars a nearly $ 800 million for the oil companies operating in the region.

The Agence France-Presse said in a report quoting an Iraqi government source that the governments in Baghdad and Erbil reached an agreement during a meeting held at the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister Ruz Nuri Shaways in the presence of officials of the Baghdad government.

It announced in Erbil Friday province will keep its production of oil for export at 140 thousand barrels per day this month, before the bump to 200 thousand in the remaining period of the year, as part of an agreement with Baghdad to end a dispute over payments oil, according to the Reuters news agency.

Dr. Ali Blue oil expert and head of the oil and gas in the previous session of the Council of Representatives of Iraq, confirmed to Radio Free Iraq that the region and under the recent agreement between Baghdad and Erbil will be able to export 200 thousand barrels of oil per day as of next October.

The federal government threatened earlier this month of September to reduce the budget of the Kurdistan region of Iraq in 2012, more than three billion dollars, to compensate for the loss of oil exports, the government says it is caused by the inability of the region's exports of crude.

The Kurdistan Region has been suspended last April shipments of oil to protest what he said payments to foreign companies owed by Baghdad. The region resumed oil exports on the seventh of August.

The oil contracts concluded by the region with international oil companies, one of the main points of contention between Baghdad and Erbil, Iraqi officials have accused authorities of the territory of smuggling oil out of the country.

Spokesman Assem Jihad, Oil Ministry confirmed to Radio Free Iraq that the two sides discussed the subject of control of production and export operations that take place in the Kurdistan region.

Experts and observers do not expect oil to end differences once and for all what the law is not adopted oil and gas, which the previous parliament failed to vote due to differences in views and orientations of the political blocs.

But Qassem Mohammad, a member of the Oil and Energy Committee House of Representatives of Iraq from the Kurdistan Alliance, believes that the political parties have begun to realize the importance and necessity of a law of oil and gas, as this law will help to ease the lot of problems growing, pointing to the formation of a parliamentary committee Mini to select draft law of oil and gas to the satisfaction of all political parties.

MP Mohammad Qasim explained that the majority in the Iraqi Council of Representatives supports the draft law proposed by the Commission on oil and energy parliamentary while there are political parties supported the bill in 2007 and again favors the bill put forward by the Iraqi government.

He predicted oil expert, and former oil minister Ibrahim Bahr al-Ulum to face parliamentary committee problem to choose the draft law of oil and gas are many obstacles in the light of differing visions about this law between the political blocs, but he did not rule out that succeed this committee in its work if it is placed ceilings time to complete its work and selection of the draft law of oil and gas.

Contributed in Radio Free Iraq correspondent Ahmed al-Zubaidi in Baghdad, and Abdul Hamid Zebari in Arbil.


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