Shahristani: the need to resolve the dispute with the oil Arbil to achieve national interests
Shahristani: the need to resolve the dispute with the oil Arbil to achieve national interests
Saturday, February 1st, 2014 16:24
BAGHDAD / Baghdadi News / .. The Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Hussain al-Shahristani, Saturday, on the need to resolve the dispute of oil between the Governments of the center and the Kurdistan region to achieve national interests, adding that the organization Transparency International placed the Kurdistan region in the gray area, the lack of knowledge of the quantities produced and exported of oil.
Shahristani said in a statement issued by his office received / Baghdadi News / copy of it, during a seminar held in the Iraqi Institute for Economic Reform in Baghdad, “We did not get to a national decision in the extraction and export of oil in the Kurdistan region was not presented to the Ministry of Oil contracts between the province and the oil companies , despite the fact that everyone knows that oil is the king of all Iraqis, and that the only body authorized export is Iraqi oil marketing company – Sumo – that is filing the financial revenues in the Development Fund for Iraq to be distributed to all provinces, according to the annual budget, “stressing the need to” resolve this file between the central government and the provincial government to achieve the highest national interest for the Iraqi people. ”
Shahristani said at the seminar which was held under the title (Iraq’s oil industry after ten years of achievements and challenges), that “even in a report by Transparency International that put Iraq at the top of its area was the province of Kurdistan – a gray area – because we do not know the manufacturer and exporter of oil.” .
“The oil at the time of the previous dictatorial regime was the source of funding for military machine has been employed for the wars just was not the source of prosperity and well-being of the Iraqi people,” pointing out that “the past ten years has represented the challenges and achievements in the oil sector, where oil production in 2003 less than two million barrels per day and infrastructure destroyed, we have taken a courageous decision in this file, even though we did not have the sovereignty of the country and our people oil a few and we need tens of billions for reconstruction, and the decision for inviting foreign companies, which warned many of this step, but we designed the delve into the model we have developed economically serve the interests of the Iraqi people through the development of the oil sector by foreign companies accredited for the first time in Iraq, service contracts and the principle of transparency. ”
Shahristani said that “we will not stand up in the distribution sector and build refineries and oil refining well,” noting that “the government is determined to promote in those sectors, especially after the cabinet’s approval to build a refinery in Karbala card 140 000 barrels per day.”
The seminar was attended by attended by Minister of Oil Abdul-Karim and coffee and head of the advisers in the Council of Ministers Thamer Ghadhban and Advanced Level in the Oil Ministry and representatives of foreign companies operating in the oil industry in Iraq. “Finished / 21
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