Oil parliamentary underestimate the impact of the Kurdistan oil contracts on the relationship between Baghdad and Erbil

by **Ponee** Sat Jun 22, 2013 2:08 pm

Baghdad / Baghdadi news / .. Reduce the abyss oil and energy parliamentary Friday, down agreements initiated by the KRG بأبرامها with some oil companies to influence the relationship between Arbil and Baghdad, and creating a crisis between them.

The MP said Furat al-Shara in smc / Baghdadi News /, that the "charged atmosphere between the political parties ended after the national meeting held home of the President of the Supreme Islamic Council and the meeting, which took place between the President of the Kurdistan Regional Government Massoud Barzani and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in Arbil, I do not think conclusion of Kurdistan with the oil companies would re-production crises between the two sides, despite the illegality of such agreements. "

He added that "all political parties, whether in the center or Erbil agree not to re-time vehicle back and not to go بالاشكالات with political and citizen service orientation by the legislation of laws and implementation of the task."

He said al-Shara that "the conclusion of the province contracts with some oil companies that lacks fairness in its dealings with the Baghdad government needs to be legal validity and coordinate with the Federal Ministry of Oil in order not to make crises again," and expressed "hope not to give priority to the region to those agreements at the expense of the national interest of calming political atmosphere between the political polarization. "

It was Russia's Gazprom announced on Friday (June 21, 2013) expressed interest in expanding its business in the oil and gas sector in the Kurdistan region, noting that the CEO met with Kurdish regional President Massoud Barzani, in the city of St. Petersburg, Russia recently تباحثا ways to increase cooperation between them.

The company said in a statement seen by / Baghdadi news / the Chief Executive Officer Alexei Miller met with Kurdish regional President Massoud Barzani and discussed with him about the possibility of increasing cooperation in the oil and gas sector.

The statement said that the two sides discussed a particular offering mutual interaction in the activities of exploration, development and operation of oil and gas fields in the region, pointing to the company's interest in expanding its business in the oil and gas sector in Kurdistan.

The Chevron's U.S. oil giant announced Thursday (June 20, 2013) for the conclusion of a new agreement to develop oil fields with the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq, despite opposition from Baghdad for decades earlier, where the statement pointed out that the contract production sharing was signed with the government officials the province to carry out oil exploration in the field of Qara Dagh, which runs the three southern provinces of the region, as the field extends over an area of 680 square kilometers. Finished / 21 AH

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