5/08/2012
BAGHDAD / JD / .. revealed to the Commission on oil and energy
parliamentary submitted a draft law of oil and gas in the Iraqi
parliament after the end of the legislative term holiday.
A member of the Committee and the National Alliance MP Uday al-Awadi's /
JD /: B'datalh legislative term he entered the Parliament will be put
oil and gas law for its own legislation, to resolve the current crisis
between the central government and the region add to the problems of
many terminate this law and explained, "The problem is escalating
between the central government and the Region Kurdistan's oil back on
the lack of clear legislation. "
And between a member of the Commission on oil and energy parliamentary
deputy for the National Alliance, "The enactment of the oil and gas
represents a clear mechanism in the solution depends upon the
outstanding problems between the Baghdad government and the region."
He was a member of the Energy Committee in the previous parliamentary
session Hadi al-Hassani, had said in a press statement that all the
current differences on oil and gas law will be resolved in the event of
an agreement on legislation that supplements the four of the law,
stressing that these supplements will explain how to deal with the
producing fields and non-producing and undeveloped and undiscovered .
Hassani said the 2007 version of the oil and gas law defined
oil-producing provinces and therefore there is no any differences on
this issue, as it gave the provinces the right to participate in the
Federal Council for Oil and Gas.
Observers believe that the enactment of the oil and gas in Iraq would
end the differences existing between the central government and the
Kurdistan Regional Government and the rest of the Iraqi provinces, as it
will represent an investment of vast oil wealth in Iraq with an
estimated reserves of about 143 billion barrels.
Iraq exports crude oil from the ports of Basra and Khor al-Amaya in the
Persian Gulf, as well as the Turkish port of Ceyhan on the
Mediterranean, and through the truck by truck to Jordan, and Iraq
currently produces about 2.0005 million barrels of crude oil per day,
and the proportion of exports from the Basra oil 90% , while the
remaining issue of Kirkuk.
The cabinet approved the draft law of oil and gas in 2007 but faced a
Kurdish protest, and observers believe it represents the differences
between Arbil and Baghdad on oil revenue sharing and control of some
fields in northern Iraq and the Kurdistan region.
It is noteworthy that the Presidency of Parliament rose, the fortieth
session to the fourteenth of June, after a majority vote on the new
range for the accountability and justice, consisting of seven people,
and to postpone the vote on the dismissal of the Mayor of Baghdad Sabir
al-Issawi .. / ended / 11 n