Talabani and submitted to the ministerial committee specialized ... The memorandum calls to the Department of Baghdad oil away from politics
London Life-07/06/07 / /
In this context, lifting expert in the oil and gas sector Hamid Jafar Dhia memorandum to President Jalal Talabani and to the petroleum and energy of the Council of Ministers, which he considered that financial investments in the petroleum industry and the annual production rates of oil and gas «not commensurate with the size of the General Reserve of this wealth, especially that Iraq has, according to experts estimate the second largest stock of reserves in the world ».
Put Jaafar proposals for bridging the gap between the discovered reserves and between regulation and control and export, including the extraction of oil wealth «aimed at avoiding waste, including preventing leakage from pipelines, and maintenance of optimum energy in the oil reservoir optimal methods in the petroleum industry and the Department of pipe network».
He also emphasized that «applied the Iraqi National Oil Company and the holders of exploration and production licenses others - art technologies oil fields and operations, which lead to optimal recovery from the reservoir solo or group reservoirs.
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And that the plan to develop the field based on the full investigation of alternatives to choose strategies extraction solution, which combines the highest level to extract oil with high levels of acceptable production and at low cost ».
On the pipeline President, Jaafar view that the Iraq National Oil Company, or any other company specialized base for this purpose «owns all pipelines President, and establish a company affiliated pipelines and operated. That works in collaboration with the Iraqi National Oil Company, in consultation with the operators concerned to ensure that the design of the pipeline network Chairperson, operation and maintenance of optimum manner, and work to develop and increase absorbed by the need ».
He stipulated that the «subject construction of a pipeline and operation of the President, or modification to the approval of the ministry. If by the specialized company which plays the role of the carrier, the proposed work in partnership with Iraqis or foreigners, the parent append agreement between the parties plan to develop the pipeline President, that the agreement sets out conditions for the funding, implementation and use of alternatives and operation of the pipeline Chairman new or amended ».
In the field of exploitation of gas, Jaafar said in his on the necessity of dealing with gas that «an important source of oil and increasingly important to economic development in Iraq and the Middle East». So that should be exploited to provide additional revenue to improve oil recovery by gas injection in the reservoirs occasion, and the exploitation of natural gas in power generation and petrochemical industries, chemical, which is used in household use in industrial processes, manufacturing, and export and / or replacement of liquid fuels by ».
He said that the Iraqi National Oil Company and the holders of exploration and production licenses follow each other alternatives for investment optimization of production quantities of surplus gas, and in the event of failure to identify commercial applications, they offer the surplus gas after treatment, the government without cost at the borders of the field, The cost capable of being retrieved during the decade on ».
In the area of use and use of land and rights of passage suggested Jaafar «regulate land use and benefit from oil operations with a view through the legislation governing such texts without prejudice», pointing out that «the right to use and benefit from the land would be equal to the duration of the contract, The land where the installations and narrow piece of land with partial protection under special legislation for the use and benefit of the land. In the event that caused the Iraqi National Oil Company and / or holders of licenses to oil operations «damage to crops and soil, buildings and improvements or requests deportation of the owners or occupants of land within the area of legal contract while exercising their own rights to oil operations within the area of contracting, they compensate owners of the assets and persons who have left. Provided to pay compensation owed, the owner may be right management processes oil demand the right of passage by the legislation in order to be able to access to sites where the oil operations. In cases where the landowner and / or occupants of the land or the legal rights of passage Iraqi people, hire competent body to the ground or purchased on behalf of the company concerned under applicable laws and regulations ».
The proposals put forward in the area of conflict resolution, which drew Jaafar that any disputes that might arise around this law and regulations of the operations of oil and arrangements and terms of contracts and application «attempt is being made to solve it in good faith negotiation between the parties concerned. In the event of failure to reach a solution by agreement referred the matter to the minister to resolve it through discussions with senior officials of the licensees involved, and if not possible to reach a solution through these discussions, then transfer the matter or dispute to arbitration or to the competent judicial authorities. In case the dispute was the question of technical or engineering, operational or accounting for petroleum operations, may be subject to solve by an expert in the field in question, then the parties may submit the dispute to an independent technical expert to issue a recommendation on resolving this dispute, If any party does not accept the recommendation of the expert may direct that party to the arbitration proceedings ».