Member of the Parliamentary Committee on Energy: Exxon Mobil will continue in Kurdistan, despite pressure from the federal government
Member of the Parliamentary Committee on Energy: Exxon Mobil will continue in Kurdistan, despite pressure from the federal government
Date: Monday 19/03/2012 10:36
Baghdad (news) .. According to a member of the Committee on Energy and Oil MP / Kurdistan Alliance bloc / Qassim Mohammed Mchkta on the insistence of Exxon Mobil to continue holding them in agreement with the Kurdistan region, in spite of the force it to terminate the contract by the federal government.
said Mchkta (of the Agency news) said on Monday: that the government tried to much pressure on Exxon Mobil U.S. to rescind the contract with them in the Kurdistan region for the extraction and export of crude oil, but the company is committed to the contract and is working to renew it, according to a statement a spokesman for Exxon Mobil.
He added that Exxon Mobil is of the world’s known in the extraction and export of oil, and has contracts for the oil fields large southern Iraq, stressing that the company, whether operating in southern Iraq or the region they serve to serve the country and its economy.
called Mchkta to: work and thinking about increasing the production capacity of oil both in the region or all governorates of Iraq, the fact that the budget deficit in public finances close to (15) trillion dinars, because the organization of block contracts with oil companies and block the extraction and export of oil will affect the Iraqi economy and the general budget. / Finished / 8. d.
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