Workers of the Southern Oil: Counters wiped out "ghost" fraud and enhanced transparency

Published on Sunday, 01 November / 1 December 2013 13:22



Basra / Center Brief for the Iraqi Media Network (IMN) - Officials and technicians at the Southern Oil Company, that the mechanism of measuring the quantities of Iraqi oil exported through the ports of Basra and Khor al-Amaya is an important indicator of transparency, and the definition of the citizen by the country's wealth.

At the time they said that the multiplicity of points of inspection and control of the calculation of the amount of oil source, helped to overcome the specter of manipulation of numbers and completely. They pointed out that the oil port of Basra won the second Gulf and fifth in the world in terms of accuracy in the work of the counters.



The Director of Operations at the South Oil Company, Engineer on behalf of Abdel-Karim Nasser's (IMN), "we disclose continuous quantities of oil exported through the ports of oil fixed and floating, pursuant to transparency and in order to promote the culture of oil to the Iraqi street in general and visual particularly because friction directly with oil. "



Nasser added, "The numbers quantities recorded monitor counters are subject to (calibration) ongoing," adding that "these figures are authenticated by a neutral third party between the seller (Iraq) and the buyer and if it is not ratified, the figures are not introduced and that third party half of the dues paid by the contractor SoC while the buyer pays the second half of the dues, and this third party is keen on the basis of its credibility because they work. "



Turn the official Division counters oil ports, Engineer Ahmed Gaspe Shaukat's (IMN) that "the system counters the port of Basra came to work and adopted at the first of July 2008 after the company completed Parsons American monument counters of type Daniel-making company (Emerson Process Mandjemant ) of America. "



Shaukat added that "the company erected at each pier of the port berths four six counters, as well as the calibration device counters and a number of accessories secondary as a sampling, and a density of each pier," explaining that "all of these devices strapped Bgervai control as each berths Ikunan platform Each platform connected to the control room containing six devices (Flow Computers) ".



He continued that "each pier has a tube called a tube overtaking, which remains closed and opens in the event of crashes counters, pointing out that" this tube can not be opened unless the minutes of formal and closes the same way and do not open except when maintenance or critical situations did not occur final yet " .



And increased Shaukat that "the port of Khor al-Amaya, which includes two berths Nos. 7 and 8, erected it, the engineering teams of the Division of counters system similar to the present in the oil port of Basra, where it was erected six meters in every sidewalk, and linked to all of the Chamber of control one," following the "Maintenance device calibration are every six months by a third examiner. "



He pointed out that "the export capacity per meter ranging from 1250 to 12250 barrels per hour, per the sidewalk because his ability operational between 70 thousand to 75 thousand barrels per hour."



He went on to say that "the maintenance of the counters are periodically by the Division engineers present in the oil ports, according to a timetable to be the subject of calibration counter before or during the process of loading on tankers."



He said Shaukat that "margin of error in meter reading did not exceed the ratio of 0.25 + - any per million barrels should not exceed 2500 barrels, according to the measurement system CODE Iraqi and we did not go beyond that figure is, they very accurate, and there Magazine English classified oil port of Basra as the second port on the Arabian Gulf and fifth globally in terms of accuracy in the work of the counters. "



He pointed out that "there is also an international auditor contracted with the South Oil Company, where the checker evaluates the performance of this work counters and gives an annual report to the Ministry of Oil and South Oil Company and published globally to see how accurate the counters in the ports of Basra and Khor al-Amaya."



The official confirmed that the Division "There are three types of reports, one weekly and last month, and there are separate report for each tanker which is more important."



He noted that "talking about the possibility for smuggling oil rig or in the numbers of Iraqi oil exports through the ports is just a modern political art is far from the facts."



Said engineer counters oil port of Basra Ammar Chanchal,'s (IMN) "The papers and official reports, to be prepared in the light of the results and the numbers Nsgelha and sent to the Oil Marketing Company and the Southern Oil Company and regulatory authorities."



Chanchal said that "our reports are counters for every two hours, and there is a daily report and a weekly report, and the most important of these reports is the initial report which calculates the output quantities after loading oil tankers."



The Oil Ministry announced last Saturday, for the complete process of installation and install counters the central platform for the export of the four floating platforms in the ports of Basra.



According to an official statement issued by the ministry, said that "national cadres and specialized international companies succeeded on Friday, November 29, from the transfer of the giant platform on the back of the tanker and installed at the site allocated to it."



"The platform includes advanced electronic devices counters, and a world-class measurement devices, and control systems and control the exported quantities of the four floating platforms."


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