License rounds cause losses to Iraq worth 12 trillion dinars

License rounds cause losses to Iraq worth 12 trillion dinars



2019/06/20 04:44:10
 
A member of the Committee on Oil and Energy and Natural Resources in the House of Representatives Sadiq al-Sulaiti that 12 trillion dinars annually lost by Iraq because of licensing rounds.

Al-Sulaiti said in a statement to the News Agency that the committee conducted a three-day field trip to the province of Basra, which included a meeting of general managers and advanced cadres working in the oil sector and reviewing the work of oil companies (Basra oil, drilling company, tankers, refineries and gas company) Achievements and ways of developing the oil sector.

He added that he prepared a report that concluded the delay of the launch of the investment plan and this is a negative situation borne by the Ministry of Oil and public companies because it did not ratify the plan of the Ministry of Planning and Finance until the release of the plan amounts, noting the reference to many notes on contracts licensing rounds, which drain about 12 trillion Iraqi dinars And to emphasize the need to employ Iraqi manpower to replace foreign and develop Iraqi expertise to manage the sites invested by those companies.

He added that the report confirmed that the Ministry of Oil to build power plants and transfer stations to operate the sites of oil fields and facilities, estimated at 400 megawatts to contribute to reducing the pressure on national electricity and used to equip citizens, and the importance of tracking the disbursement of social services confirmed contracts and the implementation of projects that serve the citizen.

He added that the tour included the visit of the West Qurna 1 field, the DS8 site, a tour of the newly completed projects, the opening of the production project and the site of the DS7, the introduction of new projects and a visit to the headquarters of the oil tankers company. And the advanced cadres what he described as "legal and administrative violations and poor contracting in the partnership contract concluded with the Arab company, which caused the waste of public money and review the books of financial control that prove it."

Al-Sulaiti expressed his lack of conviction in the response of the cadres of the tankers, pointing out that there is a parliamentary question directed by him to the Minister of Oil in this regard, and to confirm his follow-up to this file, which is suspected of corruption.

Al-Sulaiti said that the tour concluded with a visit to the Zubair oil field, "Dism north", noting that it is one of the newly implemented projects with a design capacity of 200 thousand barrels / day, and currently produces 100 thousand barrels that deal with the extraction products and return water injection to the oil fields, As well as the visit of the South Gas Company and the Basrah Gas and the field of the company "Drilling Iraqi" was briefed on the work of the company and discuss the most important problems, including the development of the current drilling towers and the number of 47 drilling equipment, and ways to develop.

He expressed his cooperation in providing support to the company to dig for foreign companies and discuss "the large number of transportation requests submitted by the associates to leave the drilling company and switch to other companies," indicating figures and loads for the communities " As exceeding the load of the province 2250 megawatts and the capacity of stations and transmission lines do not exceed 1150 megawatts, which is causing frequent hours of cutting and get many bottlenecks in the cities of the south and north of the province, citing the negligence and the previous implementation of important projects, in addition to weak voltages in most cities, Capacitors, and line problems Building and the need to adhere to the processing of 80 MW of architecture line, and problems in the downstream line of the year and the suffering of the cities of the elderly market and its environs.

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