Washington: the oil companies sign contracts with the Iraqi government

Washington: the oil companies sign contracts with the Iraqi government

Tuesday, 21 August 2012

Follow-up – and babysit – U.S. administration announced on Monday that he must oil companies have to deal with the Iraqi government and not to sign contracts directly with the Kurdistan region’s autonomous and as I did the two companies, Chevron Acksonmupail Alamirkatan and French company Total.
The spokeswoman for the U.S. State Department Victoria Nuland “in relation to Bashrkatena, we continue to say to them that the signing of oil contracts for the production or extraction with state region was in Iraq without the approval of the federal authorities Iraqi exposure to legal difficulties.”

She added that these companies “definitely take their own decisions, but as long as there is no legislation federal Iraqis in this area and this is what we demand, they run the risk of that.”

And signed the Kurdistan region of Iraq (north) dozens of oil contracts with foreign companies without Baghdad’s approval, which demands that go through these negotiations Iraqi Oil Ministry considers that any contract signed outside this way is illegal. Q, Q
Source: alrayy