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Halliburton eyes Iraq

23 May 2007 (AME Info FZ LLC)

Halliburton is in discussions with energy companies to enter Iraq, but will wait until security improves before bringing in its personnel, according to reports.

The US oil services firm says it wants to change negative perceptions about it in the marketplace, after its KBR unit, now separated from the company, received several big contracts from the US military in Iraq.

CEO Dave Lesar said setting up its corporate headquarters in Dubai would help, Gulf News reported.

Iraq reduces June oil prices to Europe and America

23 May 2007

Sources in oil trade said that Iraq reduced the official June selling price of Basrah light crude to the United States and Europe.

The sources said that the Iraqi Oil Marketing Organization (SOMO) set the sale price in June to American buyers at West Texas Intermediate crude less $4.85 per barrel versus $3.30 in May.

SOMO also set the price to European buyers at the average price of Brent crude, Fortes and Osberg less $5.20 per barrel, versus $4.85 in May.

Fire at Kirkuk oilfield not affect Iraqi crude exports
By Issam Taha
Kirkuk, 25 May 2007 (Voices of Iraq)

The fire that broke out on Thursday morning in an oilfield in Kirkuk will not affect Iraqi crude exports through the Turkish port of Ceyhan and the fire at the field was brought under control, said a source from North Oil Company.
"The Iraqi exports of crude oil from Kirkuk oilfields will not be affected by the fire that broke out today morning in Hinjerah region," the source, who asked not to be named, told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI).
He explained "the average daily exports at present are ranging from 120,000 to 150,000 barrels per day from Kirkuk oilfields to the Turkish port of Ceyhan at the Mediterranean."
Earlier on Thursday, the source told VOI "a fire broke out on Thursday morning in the Hajerah oil field because of an explosive charge blast."
Last year, an armed group blew up three major oilfields in Khabbazah region, 25 km southwest of Kirkuk. Iraqi Oil Ministry had to hire a U.S.-Canadian company for extinguishing the fire there.
Iraqi oil installations in the northern city of Kirkuk have been a target to sabotage acts since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, a matter affected crude exports from northern Iraq's fields.
The Oil Ministry has been attempting from the beginning of this year to lay down a new pipeline for crude exports through the safe Kurdistan Duhuk to Turkey to replace the present pipeline that goes through restive areas in provinces of Salah al-Din and Ninewa to Turkey.
Kirkuk is 250 km northeast of Baghdad.

Fire at Kirkuk oilfield not affect Iraqi crude exports | Iraq Updates

Credit Cards Come to Iraq
25 May 2007 (NPR)

Four years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, credit cards have come to the country.
At least one Iraqi bank is offering the service, unheard of during the Saddam era, to customers.
But Iraq is still very much a cash-based society. Many say the find the cards more useful when they're out of the country.
Iraqis refer to money as notebooks, because the bundles are so big. In Iraq, the U.S. dollar buys just over 1,200 Iraqi dinars, so going shopping and paying bills requires hauling around big stacks of local currency.
The banking system is no more sophisticated. Bank employees lug boxes stacked with 10,000 dinar notes to government offices to pay employee salaries.
"For people that we know, we can take some risk and give credit card. For people who have no history we start with pre-paid," said Zaid Mahdi, who is in charge of business development at the Trade Bank of Iraq. He says his bank has issued 15,000 credit cards so far.
The Trade Bank has had to start from scratch in a country embroiled in war.
"We have to know a client. Things are not like in the west. They just put your Social Security number and they know your credit history," Mahdi said. "We don't have that in Iraq yet."
There's a massive billboard on one street corner in downtown Baghdad with the word "VISA" emblazoned on it. This is a typical sight in most countries, but in Iraq the sign, more often than not, elicits blank stares.
Mahdi says the bank has only three ATM machines operating in all of Iraq. Progress in the banking is slow, he says, but it is moving forward, despite the uncertain security situation.
But it's more than just getting people to use credit cards.
"You know there are sometimes problems buying things in the first place," said Ahmed Fadhil, a 26-year-old dentist. "If you want to pay with your debit card … you have to list your address. Sometimes the lists do not have Iraq ..."

Credit Cards Come to Iraq | Iraq Updates

Power plant in Iraq worth $750 million
25 May 2007 (Iraq Directory)

A high-level delegation from the Iraqi Ministry of Electricity in Beijing is signing a contract to have China speed up implementation of the power station at Zubaydiah in southern Baghdad. An official source in the ministry said that the two sides agreed, during a meeting between the Minister of Electricity Kareem Waheed and the Chinese ambassador in Baghdad, to expedite the signing of a contract for the construction of the 1320 megawatt Al-Zubaydeh power station, at a cost of $750 million.
The Ministry of Electricity has started preparing special sites for 50 generators in the city of Baghdad, to increase electric production before mid-June and reduce hours of rationing in the capital. On the other hand, a dispute escalated between officials in the ministries of oil and electricity about supplying the power plants with fuel; the Ministry of Electricity held the Ministry of Oil responsible for the waste of 1000 MW capacity because of shortfalls of fuel for the plants.

Power plant in Iraq worth $750 million | Iraq Updates

JUST SAW THIS ON THE PARLIAMENT'S WEBSITE...

PARLIAMENT IN SESSION SATURDAY FOR MEETINGS?

At the same meeting, the vote on extending the coverage of the National Assembly and members of the House including the aforementioned Act, as of the date of their oath.

هذا وقد رفعت الجلسة عند تمام الساعة الثانية وخمس واربعون دقيقة على ان تعقد الساعة الحادية عشر من صباح يوم السبت المصادف السادس والعشرون من ايار 2007.

This has fully meeting rose at two and forty-five minutes to hold eleven on the morning of Saturday, the twenty-sixth of May 2007.

NO IDEA AS TO WHAT WILL BE DISCUSSED BUT WE CAN PRAY THAT IT IS SOMETHING MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE BELOW FROM THURSDAY:
SORRY EDITORIAL COMMENT INCLUDED JUST ABOVE

Translated version of http://www.coriraq.net/ara/default.aspx

THIS IS WHAT THEY TALKED ABOUT ON THURSDAY

With regard to topics on the agenda have been the first reading of a series of projects and proposals for legislation :

The first reading of the draft law Tmbak housing plots for judges and
the first reading of the proposed law distribution of land to university professors and
the first reading of the proposed law abolishing a wealth Command Council dissolved (No. 844) of 1987 and
the first reading of the proposed law abolishing a dissolved Revolution Command Council (No. 315) of 1990 and No. 30 for the year 1993 and 38 for 1993 and
the first reading of the proposed bill on the cancellation of the Revolution Command Council resolution No. 1220 of the dissolved in 1984 and 61 for 1988, 69 for 1994 and
the first reading of the proposed law abolishing a dissolved Revolution Command Council No. 56 of 1994 and 70 for 1994, 74 for 1994 and
the first reading of the proposed bill on the cancellation decision Revolution Command Council dissolved No. 172 of 1989 and amended by calling 179 for 1971 and Resolution No. 1177 of 1975 and Tadelet calling 177 for 1991 and
the first reading of the proposed bill on the cancellation of the Revolution Command Council resolution No. 206 of the dissolved in 1991 and
the first reading of the proposed law abolishing a Revolutionary Command Council dissolved No. 349 for the year 1991 and
the first reading of the proposed bill on the cancellation of the Revolution Command Council resolution No. 199 of the dissolved 2001

At the same meeting, the vote on extending the coverage of the National Assembly and members of the House including the aforementioned Act, as of the date of their oath.

Originally Posted by fredgwest1999

JUST SAW THIS ON THE PARLIAMENT'S WEBSITE...

PARLIAMENT IN SESSION SATURDAY FOR MEETINGS?

At the same meeting, the vote on extending the coverage of the National Assembly and members of the House including the aforementioned Act, as of the date of their oath.

هذا وقد رفعت الجلسة عند تمام الساعة الثانية وخمس واربعون دقيقة على ان تعقد الساعة الحادية عشر من صباح يوم السبت المصادف السادس والعشرون من ايار 2007.

This has fully meeting rose at two and forty-five minutes to hold eleven on the morning of Saturday, the twenty-sixth of May 2007.

NO IDEA AS TO WHAT WILL BE DISCUSSED BUT WE CAN PRAY THAT IT IS SOMETHING MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE BELOW FROM THURSDAY:
SORRY EDITORIAL COMMENT INCLUDED JUST ABOVE

Translated version of http://www.coriraq.net/ara/default.aspx

THIS IS WHAT THEY TALKED ABOUT ON THURSDAY

With regard to topics on the agenda have been the first reading of a series of projects and proposals for legislation :

The first reading of the draft law Tmbak housing plots for judges and
the first reading of the proposed law distribution of land to university professors and
the first reading of the proposed law abolishing a wealth Command Council dissolved (No. 844) of 1987 and
the first reading of the proposed law abolishing a dissolved Revolution Command Council (No. 315) of 1990 and No. 30 for the year 1993 and 38 for 1993 and
the first reading of the proposed bill on the cancellation of the Revolution Command Council resolution No. 1220 of the dissolved in 1984 and 61 for 1988, 69 for 1994 and
the first reading of the proposed law abolishing a dissolved Revolution Command Council No. 56 of 1994 and 70 for 1994, 74 for 1994 and
the first reading of the proposed bill on the cancellation decision Revolution Command Council dissolved No. 172 of 1989 and amended by calling 179 for 1971 and Resolution No. 1177 of 1975 and Tadelet calling 177 for 1991 and
the first reading of the proposed bill on the cancellation of the Revolution Command Council resolution No. 206 of the dissolved in 1991 and
the first reading of the proposed law abolishing a Revolutionary Command Council dissolved No. 349 for the year 1991 and
the first reading of the proposed bill on the cancellation of the Revolution Command Council resolution No. 199 of the dissolved 2001

At the same meeting, the vote on extending the coverage of the National Assembly and members of the House including the aforementioned Act, as of the date of their oath.

Funny,

When it comes to self benefit votes, they all show up, but when it comes to national issues, half don't show up. Sure makes it obvious what agenda carries the most importance with these current parliament members. Reshuffle aready, it is way overdue.

Good luck and health to all, Mike

Originally Posted by shotgunsusie

accelerate the APPLICATION OF.

like i said, just watch and see what happens next.

Ohhh go a head give it a rub and make a wish........

Sorry if already posted...

Shahrastani law of Iraqi oil and gas is not granted to Americans

(صوت العراق) - 25-05-2007(Voice of Iraq) - 25-05-2007
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وزير النفط يؤكد أن بلاده ستعاني أزمة مشتقات ...Oil minister confirms that his country will suffer a crisis derivatives ... وإن اتهامات السرقة تعود الى الوزارات السابقة ...The theft charges revert to the previous ministries ... الشهرستاني لـ«الحياة»: القانون العراقي للنفط والغاز لا يمنح الأميركيين امتيازات ...Shahrastani told «life» : the law of the Iraqi oil and gas is not granted privileges Americans ... ولا خلافات مع الأكراد على العائداتNo differences with the Kurds proceeds
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أكد وزير النفط العراقي حسين الشهرستاني ان قانون النفط والغاز الذي وضعته الحكومة العراقية واحالته الى مجلس النواب لإقراره «لا يمنح الولايات المتحدة اي امتيازات أو مكاسب» وقال في حوار مع «الحياة» إن القانون يعزز الوحدة الوطنية في البلاد ولا يعد مدخلاً لتقسيمها، لافتاً الى ان مضمون القانون يعتمد توزيع الموارد النفطية على كل مكونات الشعب العراقي من دون استثناء.The Iraqi Oil Minister Hussein Shahrastani Act of oil and gas by the Iraqi government and forwarded to the House for approval «does not give the United States any privileges or gains» said in a dialogue with the «life» that the law promotes national unity in the country is the gateway for zoning pointing out that the content of the law depends distribution of oil resources on all the components of the Iraqi people, without exception.

وأشار الى أن 80 في المئة من الاحتياط العراقي المكتشف مخصص للشركة الوطنية العراقية وهذا يبطل الادعاء أن القانون سيمهد للشركات الأجنبية الاستحواذ على نفط العراق، ولفت الى ان محدودية في القطاع النفطي العراقي ليست في قدرة العراق على الانتاج وإنما في عدم القدرة على تصدير الكمية المنتجة كلها بسبب تعطل خط النقل عبر تركيا.He pointed out that 80% of the reserves discovered Iraqi dedicated to the company, this Iraqi national invalidates the claim that the law will pave the foreign companies monopolizing the oil of Iraq, He pointed out that the limited Iraqi oil sector is not in Iraq's ability to produce, but the inability to export the entire quantity produced because of the disruption transport route via Turkey.

ونفى الشهرستاني وجود اي تداخل سياسي او حزبي في القرار النفطي كما نفى وجود خلافات كبيرة مع حكومة اقليم كردستان حول القانون، وأشار الى أن تهماً في خصوص تبدد بلايين الدولارات من تصدير النفط العراقي ربما تعود الى عهود سبقت توليه المسؤولية وقال إن أزمة المشتقات النفطية في العراق ستستمر لأعوام مقبلة بسبب النقص في مخصصات استيرادها.Shahrastani denied the existence of any overlap political or party in the resolution oil also denied the existence of substantial differences with the government of the Kurdistan region of the bill, He pointed out that the charges in relation to waste billions of dollars of Iraqi oil exports may return to earlier eras of his responsibility, he said that the crisis of oil derivatives in Iraq will continue for years to come because of shortage of import allocations.

وهذا نص الحوار:This is the text of the interview :

> اتهم قانون النفط والغاز من قبل اطراف سياسية بانه مدخل لتقسيم العراق, ماذا تقول؟> Accused the law of oil and gas by the political parties that the entrance to the division of Iraq, what do you say?

- إنه افتراء كبير على القانون الذي يحمل الكثير من الايجابيات واهمها انه يعزز الوحدة الوطنية، فالقانون يركز على ان النفط والغاز ملك لكل أطياف الشعب ومكوناته كما ينص على ذلك الدستور وعليه فإن الايرادات المتأتية من بيع النفط والغاز المستخرج من اي مكان من البلاد تودع في حساب اتحادي في البنك المركزي تحت سيطرة واشراف الحكومة الاتحادية وتوزع من خلال الموازنة السنوية التي يقرها مجلس النواب.- That lie largely on the law, which carries many of the pros and foremost it strengthens national unity, The law focuses on the oil and gas belongs to all sects and components as stipulated in the Constitution and therefore income from the sale of oil and gas extracted from anywhere in the country at the expense of federal deposit at the Central Bank under the control and supervision of the federal government and distributed through the annual budget approved by the Deputies. ولذلك فالطريقة التي وضعت بها مسودة القانون للايرادات النفطية تعزز الوحدة الوطنية.Therefore, the method by which they were developed draft law of oil revenues strengthen national unity.

> هل تعتقد ان نص القانون يشكل تكريساً لعقود الشراكة مع شركات أجنبية لتصبح المستفيدة الوحيدة من النفط العراقي؟> Do you believe that the text of the law is a consecration of partnership contracts with foreign companies to become sole beneficiary of Iraqi oil?

- لا يوجد ذكر لعقود الشراكة في الانتاج وهذا الأمر ترك للمجلس الاتحادي للنفط والغاز وهو اعلى سلطة في البلاد برئاسة رئيس الوزراء وعضوية وزارات النفط والمال والتخطيط ومحافظ البنك المركزي وممثلين عن كل محافظة منتجه لأكثر من 100 الف برميل يومياً وهؤلاء هم الذين يقررون المصلحة العليا للبلاد.- There is no mention of partnership contracts in production and this is left to the Federal oil and gas, which is the highest authority in the country headed by the Prime Minister and members of the ministries of oil, finance and planning, the Central Bank Governor, representatives from each province producer of more than 100 thousand barrels per day and those are the ones who decide the supreme interest of the country.

نحتاج الى نوع معين من العقود ونحن بصدد دراستها واتخاذ ما يلزم لتنفيذها وفي القانون صنفت الحقول العراقية المكتشفة الى ثلاثة ملاحق الأول يشمل كل الحقول العملاقة وهو لشركة النفط الوطنية العراقية.We need a certain type of contract, and we are considering taking the action necessary to implement the law and classified Iraqi fields discovered to the first three supplements include all fields of a giant Iraqi National Oil Company. والثاني يشمل الحقول المكتشفة وغير المنتجة في الوقت الحاضر لكن يمكن تطويرها أيضاً وخصص لشركة النفط العراقية.The second includes the discovered fields and non-productive at the present time but also can be developed and earmarked for the Iraqi oil company. والثالث يتعلق بالحقول المكتشفة والبعيدة من مرحلة الإنتاج وغير المنتجة حالياً وتكون خاضعة للتنافس وهذا يعني ان 80 في المئة من الاحتياط العراقي المكتشف مخصص للشركة الوطنية العراقية وهذا يبطل الادعاء القائل إن القانون سيمهد للشركات الأجنبية الاستحواذ على نفط العراق.The third oilfields discovered distant from the stage of production and non-productive now be subject to competition and this means that 80% of the reserves discovered Iraqi dedicated to the company, this Iraqi national invalidates the claim that the law will pave the foreign companies monopolizing the oil of Iraq.

الكثير من تلك الادعاءات له دوافعه السياسية وغير المهنية، فالنسبة الأكبر مخصصة لشركة النفط الوطنية العراقية وما نسبته 17 في المئة مفتوحه للتنافس وتستطيع شركة النفط الوطنية ان تقدم عروضها وقد تفوز بتلك النسبة أيضاً.Many of these allegations have political motivations and non-professional ratio larger earmarked for the Iraqi National Oil Company and 17 per cent open to competition and the national oil company can submit their bids were also win that ratio.

> هناك من يرى أن ضغوطاً أميركية مورست على الحكومة العراقية لإقرار قانون النفط والغاز؟> Some believe that the American pressures exerted on the Iraqi government to approve a bill that oil and gas?

- لو كان الأمر كذلك لأشار القانون الى إعطاء الأفضلية للشركات الأميركية في الاستثمار، فالقانون من اشد القوانين النفطية صرامة بما فيها القانون الليبي والقوانين العربية الأخرى، فالعراق لا يتفاوض بموجب هذا القانون مع اي شركة لذاتها كي يعطي أفضلية لشركة من دون أخرى وانما يعمل من خلال منافسة مفتوحة، وأي شركة تمنح العراق مردوداً أعلى هي التي ستفوز وذلك ما تطلبه المصلحة الوطنية وإذا كانت الشركات الاميركية مستعدة لأن تعطي العراق أعلى مردود وتقبل اقل نسبة من الأرباح فليكن لها ذلك.- If it is referred to the law to give preference to U.S. companies in the investment law of the most stringent laws including oil Libyan law and the laws of other Arab, Iraq does not negotiate under this law with any company for the same so as to give preference to the company without the other, but working through open competition. Any company granted Iraq is the highest payoff will gain and those requested by the national interest and if the American companies willing to give Iraq a higher yield and accept lower percentage of the profits let them do so.

> أين تكمن خلافات وزارة النفط العراقية مع إقليم كردستان حول الاستثمار وتوزيع العوائد النفطية؟> What are the differences and the Iraqi Oil Ministry with the Kurdistan on investment and the distribution of oil revenues?

- القانون تمت مناقشته منذ حزيران (يونيو) عام 2006 وتم التوصل الى اتفاق على المسودة التي طرحت بعد نقاشات معقدة، ولا يوجد خلاف مع حكومة اقليم كردستان، لكن هناك قوانين مترابطة مع هذا القانون منها قانون شركة النفط الوطنية التي حُلّت من جانب المسؤولين عن الوزارة قبل ان اتولى مهماتها وهو يستلزم إعادة الحياة لشركه النفط الوطنية وتفعيلها وتمكينها من ادارة كل الحقول العراقية الكبيرة.- Act has been discussed since June (June) 2006 Agreement has been reached on the draft put forward after discussions complex, and there is no disagreement with the government of the Kurdistan region, But there are laws with this law from the National Oil Company Act, which replaced the senior officials of the ministry before I Picture It requires restore life to the National Oil Company and activated and enable them to manage all the major Iraqi fields.

أما ما يتعلق بقانون الموارد المالية فهناك مسودة عرضت على لجنة الطاقة وأقرت مبدئياً لكن الاكراد لديهم بعض الملاحظات على مسودة القانون ليس في شأن إيداع الإيرادات في صندوق واحد وتوزيعها على جميع المناطق بحسب عدد سكانها، على الآلية المتبعة وهي أن تأتي الأموال الى البنك المركزي وتودع في حساب الدولة الاتحادية والصرف يكون من خلال وزارة المال وهي الجهة التي تتولى اطلاق الصرف قانوناً الامر الذي يرفضه الاكراد الذين يرغبون بآلية تلقائية في إطلاق الصرف من دون تدخل وزارة المال.As for the Law of financial resources are brought to the draft Energy Commission and approved in principle but the Kurds have some observations on the draft law is not in the deposit revenue in one box, and distributed to all regions according to population, the mechanism used is that the money comes to the Central Bank and deposited in the account federal and state rate is through the Ministry of Finance which is the focal point of the launch of exchange law would be rejected by the Kurds, who want an automatic mechanism to launch the exchange without the intervention of the Ministry of Finance.

> هل تؤيد وزارة النفط الأكراد في ذلك؟> Do you support the Ministry of Oil by Kurds?

- نحن حاولنا تبديد مخاوف حكومة إقليم كردستان وبقيه المحافظات من خلال تشكيل هيئة جديدة تشرف على هذه العملية وتضم ممثلين عن كل محافظات العراق على اعتبار ان هناك حصصاً لكل محافظة ووزارة وسيكون عمل تلك الهيئة رقابياً يُلزم وزارة المال بإطلاق التخصيصات المقررة في الموازنة المركزية.- We have tried to allay the fears of the government of Kurdistan region and the rest of the governorates through the formation of a new body to oversee this process and includes representatives from all provinces of Iraq on the grounds that there are quotas for each governorate and the Ministry will work that needed regulatory body, the Ministry of Finance opened specialties established in the central budget.

>ما هي طبيعة ومهمات شركة النفط الوطنية التي أعيد تأسيسها أخيراً واعترض عليها الجانب الكردي؟> What is the nature and tasks of the National Oil Company, which was founded recently and opposed by the Kurdish side?

- الأكراد لم يعترضوا على إعادة تشكيل شركة النفط الوطنية ولكن كان لهم رأي لم تبلغ به لجنة الطاقة في شكل رسمي وهم يرون ان النسبة المخصصة لتلك الشركة من حقول النفط كبيرة.- Kurds did not object to the restructuring of the National Oil Company, but they were not reported by the Energy Commission in the form of a formal They believe that the proportion allocated to the company of large oilfields.

> قلتم إنكم لن تسمحوا بالاستثمار خارج نطاق وزارة النفط هل يعني انكم كوزارة ستتحدون التوازنات السياسية التي يستخدمها الأكراد لتحقيق مطالبهم خصوصاً ان هنالك عقوداً أُبرمت أخيراً بهذا الشأن؟> You will not allow investment outside the Oil Ministry Do You ministry Sttionson political balances used by the Kurds to achieve their demands, especially that there are contracts concluded recently in this regard?

- نعتقد ان القطاع النفطي يجب ان يدار بمهنية ووطنية لا علاقة لها بالتمثيل السياسي وبالمكونات الاجتماعية للشعب العراقي ويمكن لأي عراقي من اي خلفية مذهبية او دينية او قومية ويتحلى بالكفاءة والخبرة والنزاهة ان يُكلَّف بهذه المهمة والمسودة الأساسية التي قدمت كانت مبنية على هذا الأساس.- Believe that the oil sector must be run professionally and patriotism have nothing to do with political representation and social components of the Iraqi people and any Iraqi from any sectarian or religious background or nationality, a person of competence, experience and integrity to entrust this task and the basic draft presented based on this basis.

وبسبب الظرف السياسي المعقد في البلاد وتخوّف بعض المكونات من أنها لا تتمثل كما يجب في مراكز القرار ارتؤي إضافة هذه الفقرة للمسودة وجاءت بناء على تنازلات متبادلة من كل الأطراف وإذا كان النواب في البرلمان يعتقدون بأن لا ضرورة لهذا النص فنحن مع هذا التوجه، ولكن إذا كانت بعض المكونات التي لا تمثل الأكثرية في البلاد ترغب بأن يكون لها صوت مسموع ومشاركة فعلية في القرارات الاقتصادية يستجاب لطلبها وهذا ليس بطلب وزارة النفط ولا الائتلاف العراقي الموحد.Because of the complex political situation in the country and fears of some components of it is not and must resolution centers in this paragraph was added to the draft and came upon mutual concessions from all the parties and whether the deputies of the parliament did not believe that the need for this text we are with this direction, But if some components that do not represent the majority in the country wished to have a voice and active participation in economic decisions and respond to its request this is not a request of the Ministry of Oil in the United Iraqi Alliance.

> هل يمكننا الحصول على صورة عامة لطبيعة الإنتاج النفطي الحالي في العراق واسباب تراجع الانتاج والى اين تطمحون بالوصول بالانتاج خلال العام الحالي؟> Can we get a general picture of the nature of current oil output in Iraq and the reasons for the decline of production and where to access Ttmahoun production during the current year?

- إمكانات العراق الحالية تتراوح بين 2,8 و 2,9 مليون برميل يومياً وفي الإمكان رفعها وكما هو مخطط الى ثلاثه ملايين برميل يومياً، لكن طاقتنا التكريرية الآن تغطي حوالى نصف مليون برميل وهناك جهود تبذل لإضافة وحدات إضافية لتحسين أداء المصافي العراقية وجعل طاقتها 700 الى 750 الف برميل في اليوم لسد الطلب المتزايد على المشتقات النفطية داخل البلاد، والمتبقي يجب تصديره عبر منفذين رئيسيين هما ميناء البصرة النفطي والطاقة التصميمية لهذا المنفذ 1,6 مليون برميل يومياً وحالياً نحن نصدر منه بكامل سعته التصديرية.- Iraq's potential to the current range between 2.8 and 2.9 million barrels per day and possible adjournment As planned to three million barrels per day, But our refining now covers about half a million barrels and efforts are being made to add additional modules to improve the performance of the Iraqi refineries and capacity to make 700 to 750 thousand barrels per day to meet increasing demand on oil derivatives in the country, The remainder must be exported via implementing two major oil port of Basra and the design capacity of this performing 1.6 million barrels per day and we currently export to the full export capacity.

أما المنفذ الآخر فهو من خلال أنبوب يمر عبر الأراضي التركية الى ميناء جيهان وهذا الأنبوب يصدر اكثر من 500 ألف برميل في اليوم إلا انه يتعرض وباستمرار للهجمات الإرهابية وعمليات التخريب وتعمل كوادر الوزارة في شكل يومي على إصلاح الأضرار التي تلحق بالأنبوب جراء تلك العمليات وعليه فأ ن التصدير عبر هذا الأنبوب متوقف حالياً والانتاج الحالي يصل الى مليونين ومئتي ألف برميل وهو مجمل طاقتنا الإنتاجية فضلاً عن كميات أخرى تعطى لمحطات توليد الكهرباء، فالمحدودية ليست في قدرة العراق على الإنتاج وإنما في عدم قدرتنا على تصدير الكمية المنتجة بسبب تعرض الأنبوب الشمالي لهجمات متكررة.The other outlet is through a pipeline passing through Turkish territory to Ceyhan port and the pipeline issued more than 500 thousand barrels per day, but it constantly exposed to terrorist attacks and acts of sabotage and cadres working in the form of daily ministry to repair the damage caused by such operations Balanbub Accordingly Zeeuw export via the pipeline currently blocked and current production up to two million, two hundred thousand barrels, a total energy production, as well as other amounts given to the electricity generation stations Valmahdodih is not in Iraq's ability to produce, but in our inability to export quantity produced because the pipeline north of repeated attacks.

> تتداخل قضية كركوك المعلقة سياسياً مع إمكانات المدينة النفطية الهائلة كيف تسيرون العمل هناك وسط هذا التجاذب؟> Overlap issue of Kirkuk outstanding politically with the potential enormous oil city how you have to work there the middle of this spat?

- حقل كركوك من الحقول العملاقة المنتجة وهو من ضمن الحقول المخصصة لشركه النفط الوطنية والكل متفق بمن فيهم الأكراد على ضرورة بقاء هذه الحقول تحت تصرف شركة النفط الوطنية والتي تمثل كل مكونات الشعب العراقي بما فيها الحقول غير المنتجة.- Kirkuk field of giant producing fields and is one of the fields for the national oil company and everyone agreed, including the Kurds on the need to preserve these fields at the disposal of the National Oil Company, which represents all components of the Iraqi people, including the non-producing fields.

> ما هو تعليقكم على التقارير الاميركية التي تحدثت عن ضياع بلايين الدولارات خلال مراحل إنتاج وتصدير النفط خلال الأعوام الأربعة الماضية؟> What is your comment on the reports about the American loss of billions of dollars through the stages of the production and export of oil during the past four years?

- الحقيقة ان المقالة التي نشرت في صحيفة «نيويورك تايمز» تحدثت عن وجود فارق يتراوح بين 100 و300 ألف برميل يومياً بين ما هو منتج وما هو مصدر خلال الفترة الماضية إلا ان المراقبين للموقف يؤكدون أن هذه الفجوة تقلصت في شكل كبير بعد تسلمي مسؤولية الوزارة، والرقم الذي يتحدثون عنه هو عن قراءات ماضية واعتقد ان التهمة موجهة لمن سبقني بتولي مهمات الوزاره.The truth - that the article published in the newspaper «York Times» spoke of the existence of a difference between 100 and 300 thousand barrels a day between what is and what is the source of a product during the last period, but the position of the observers assert that this gap in the form of diminished considerably after the assumption of responsibility for the ministry, The figure talked about is going on readings I believe that the charge from those who preceded me worthy missions ministry.

ولكن وان صحت تلك الاتهامات فإن تهريب 100 ألف برميل يحتاج الى ميناء للتصدير غير خاضع لسيطرة الحكومة العراقية وإذا كان هنالك ميناء غير خاضع لسيطرة الدولة فاين هو؟But these accusations are correct and that the smuggling of 100 thousand barrels needed to port for export is not subject to the control of the Iraqi government, and if there is not subject to a port state control Where is?

أما كان الأجدر بمروجي تلك الاقاويل نشر صور عن ذلك الميناء، اما إذا لم يهرب عن طريق الميناء حتماً فإن الأمر يحتاج الى آلاف الناقلات لتهريب النفط فكيف يمكن لتلك الناقلات التحرك دونما رادع او رقيب؟Entrepreneurs have been better to those rumors published pictures of the port, but if it does not run through the port inevitably needed to thousands of tankers to smuggle oil How could such tankers to move without restraint or unsupervised?

الاتهام عموماً ينقصه الكثير من الدقة لان مثل تلك الكميات المهربة والتي أشار إليها التقرير تحتاج الى تواطؤ دولي وميناء وحالياً فان النفط العراقي يصدر من ميناء البصرة النفطي الى شركات نفطية عالمية كبرى تمتلك مصافي لتكرير النفط العراقي حصراً ولا تتعامل بالتهريب وتلك الشركات لديها عدادات لقراءة حمولة الباخرة أو الناقلة ولا ننسى ان وزارة النفط نصبت عدادات حديثة لقياس الكميات المصدرة وبإشراف شركه عالمية معروفة ولم يحدث ان اختلفت القراءات بين العدادات العراقية والعدادات الأخرى لتلك الشركات.The indictment generally lacks many precisely because of such quantities of smuggled and cited in the report need to be collusion and international port and now the issue of Iraqi oil from the port of Basra oil to major global oil companies have refineries for refining Iraqi oil does not deal exclusively with smuggling and those companies have counters for reading shipload or tanker not forget that the Oil Ministry newly installed meters to measure quantities exported and the supervision of an international company known not happen that differed between meter readings Iraqi and other meters for those companies.

> هل تعانون من التداخل السياسي والحزبي في القرار النفطي؟> Is Tanon overlapping political and partisan resolution in oil?

- كوزارة بالطبع لا, لان تلك الجهات تعرف جيداً ان ليس لها تأثير في قرار وزير النفط عموماً ولهذا لا تمارس مثل تلك الضغوط حيث لا تتم الاستجابة لأي ضغط وأنا لا أتعرض لأي ضغوط من قبل أي جهة سياسية او حزبية وان كان هناك ضغط فأنا أول من سيشهّر به، ولكن يحدث ذلك في بعض المحافظات من خلال محاولات البعض للتأثير على منتسبي المؤسسات النفطية للحصول على بعض الامتيازات والمكاسب.- Ministry of course not. because these actors know very well that not only have an impact on the decision of the minister of oil generally, and this does not exercise such as pressures are not responding to any pressure and I do not touch any pressure by any political or partisan and that there was pressure I first Sechehr it, But happen in some governorates through some attempts to influence members of the oil institutions to obtain some of the privileges and benefits. وأوعزت الوزارة لموظفيها في عموم البلاد التعامل ضمن حدود القانون وعدم تجاوزه تحت أي ضغط من قبل جماعات مسلحة أو ميليشيا أو جهة سياسية أو حزبية أو من قبل بعض العشائر.I instructed ministry staff throughout the country to deal within the law and not under any pressure surmounted by armed groups, militia or a political or partisan or by some clans.

> نستمع أخيراً الى من يروج عبر وسائل إعلام عن منحكم كوبونات تصدير لعناصر حزبية متنفذة منها عمّار الحكيم مثلاً؟> Finally listen to the promoters of transnational media on giving coupons for export partisan elements of influential Ammar Hakim example?

- انه ادعاء باطل تماماً وليس هناك في سجلات وزارة النفط بعد سقوط النظام السابق أي كوبونات لأي جهة كانت.- It is completely false and there is nothing in the records of the Ministry of Oil after the fall of the former regime any coupons for any quarter. والآن النفط العراقي يعلن عنه في السوق الدولية ويباع لشركات كبرى بحسب معادلات سعرية لا يتحكم بها البائع والمشتري، ومعدل سعر النفط العراقي يحدد بسعر نفط نشرة «بلاتس» لمنطقة الخليج وتودع الأموال في حساب «dfi» «الصندوق العراقي للتنمية» في الخارج ولا توجد أي آلية أخرى للبيع ولا يوجد طرف آخر يحق له البيع أو ان يتعاقد على النفط العراقي خارج الأطر الرسمية المعتمدة.Now that Iraqi oil be announced in the international market and sold to major companies by purchasing price was not controlled by the seller and the buyer, The rate determines the price of Iraqi oil at the oil bulletin «Plates» to the Gulf region, and money is deposited into the account «dfi» «Iraqi Development Fund» abroad and there is no other mechanism for sale and no other party is entitled to sale or contract for Iraqi oil outside the official accredited.

> لديكم مشاريع لبناء مصافي نفط انتقدت من قبل خبراء لكونها تشيد في كربلاء والنجف وهي مدن بعيدة من مراكز آبار النفط؟> You have projects to build oil refineries criticized by experts for being commended in Karbala and Najaf and cities far from centers oil wells?

- المصافي دائماً تبنى قرب منافذ التوزيع وليس قرب الحقول وأكبر مصافي العالم تشيد قرب موانئ التصدير أو قرب التجمعات السكانية للتوزيع الداخلي كما هي الحال بالنسبة الى مصفى الدورة الذي شيد قرب اكبر تجمع سكاني في العراق وعليه فالمصافي ستشيد في كربلاء والنجف على اعتبار انها تكتظ بالسكان.- Always refineries built near distribution outlets, and not near the fields and the world's largest refineries near applauds export ports or near residential areas for internal distribution as is the case with the Al-Dawra refinery, which was built near the largest urban agglomeration in Iraq and it Valemsafi be constructed in Karbala and Najaf on the ground that it was overpopulated.

> كيف تقوّمون تجربة وزارتكم في توفير الوقود (الكاز والبنزين) في السوق وسط أزمة لم تحل على رغم وعودكم المتكررة؟> How do you see your ministry and experience in providing fuel (kerosene and gasoline) in the market amid crisis unresolved despite repeated Audkam?

- نعم هناك نقص حاد في المشتقات النفطية في البلاد، وأسباب ذلك عدة، من بينها زيادة دخول السيارات التي بلغ عددها أكثر من مليون سيارة، الى جانب استخدام المولدات المنزلية فضلاً عن المولدات الكبيرة المنتشرة في الأزقة والأحياء، إضافة الى تقادم مصافي انتاج النفط ما ينعكس سلباً على الانتاج الذي لا يلبي الطلب المتزايد، وعليه يجب ان يُغطى النقص الحاصل في الاستيراد.- Yes, there is a severe shortage of oil derivatives in the country, and several reasons, including increased entry of cars that have reached more than a million cars, as well as the use of generators as well as domestic large generators deployed in the alleys and neighborhoods, in addition to the prescription refineries oil production is reflected negatively on the production, which does not meet the growing demand, and it must cover the shortfall in imports.

وكانت حكومة الدكتور اياد علاوي تستورد ما قيمته 4.5 بليون دولار لسد النقص الحاصل في الوقود.The government of Dr. Iyad Allawi imports worth 4.5 billion dollars to bridge the shortfall in fuel. أما حكومة ابراهيم الجعفري فقد كانت تستورد ما قيمته 2.5 بليون دولار وقوداً.The government of Ibrahim al-Jaafari were imports worth 2.5 billion dollars and fuel. ولا تمتلك وزارة النفط الحالية مثل تلك المخصصات لسد النقص وكل ما هو متوافر في موازنة الوزارة لعام 2007 هو 300 مليون دولار لاستيراد النفط حصراً لفصل الشتاء، ولا توجد مخصصات للبنزين والكاز، وعليه وقعنا عقوداً جديدة لتطوير المصافي القديمة وبناء أخرى جديدة لتحسين الانتاج وذلك يتطلب وقتاً يتراوح بين 4 و5 سنوات وهذا يعني ان البلاد ستعاني من أزمات في السنين المقبلة.Nor has the Ministry of Oil present such allocations replenishing all that is available in the Ministry's budget for 2007 is $ 300 million to import oil exclusively for the winter, and there are no allocations for petrol and kerosine, Accordingly, we signed new contracts for the development of old refineries and build new ones to improve production and that requires time between 4 and 5 years, which means that the country will suffer from crises in the coming years.

المركزيThe insistence to continue the monetary policy of the Central Bank
25/05/2007Business and Economy-25/05/2007








قال.He said the Iraqi Central Bank Governor Sinan Al-Shabibi that the goal of monetary policy is to achieve price stability and be done by enhancing the effectiveness of the work of all sectors in order to meet the social needs of goods and services, and explained that the Central Bank is issuing new currency and did not want to fall, and there are important economic implications behind the monetary policy, especially at the level of stability in Iraq economically. NEW NOTES???

و .Shabibi and pointed to inflation, which rose to record rates in past years have witnessed relatively stable in this year amounting to 45%, and the Central Bank has succeeded in forming a high cash reserve amounted to 21 billion dollars. he is a good sum could in turn contribute to the creation of a stability reassuring.

و .And statements come in light of the opposition expressed by the broad economic circles, particularly in the private sector, as well as experts and spe******ts about the tight monetary policy, and tried to prevent the activation and revitalize economic sectors because of raising interest rates to more than 23%. and the rate is unprecedented in any nation at the regional and global levels, The inflation indices to be calculated incorrectly, so that the results seem positive formality while inflation rises in practice as prices remained volatile for the major commodity groups involved in the account.




المصدر : الملف برس - الكاتب: الملف برسSource : file-Presse writer : file Press

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Is he talking about lower denoms??? Notice he doesn't say replacing currency he says issuing, it has to be the lower denoms!!