Iraqi oil: the differences between Arbil and Baghdad are not solved by force




19/5/2017
2 hours ago
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Ruudau - Erbil

A spokesman for the Iraqi Oil Ministry, Assem Jihad, that the ministry has made great efforts and paid attention to the areas that have been liberated from Daash and provided oil derivatives to the people of those areas.

"We coordinate with the security forces and the Kurdistan Region to deliver oil derivatives to the liberated areas," Jihad said in an interview with the Rwandan media network. "The ministry has worked to rehabilitate the oil installations and it was a record time in order not to get a deficit in these provinces, Liberated cities such as Ninewa. "

He added that the Ministry of Oil began to extinguish the wells in the field of Qayara, explaining that "the number of wells damaged by the limits of 34 wells out of a total of 50 wells and there was an agreement with the company (Car) to operate a refinery and supply crude oil from the fields of Kirkuk and thus this refinery began production and produce up to 40 Thousand barrels of oil derivatives to cover the deficit of these cities and provinces and to benefit the provinces of Erbil, Kirkuk and other regions.

"The refinery provided a large part of the material of kerosene for electric power plants in addition to oil derivatives," said a spokesman for the ministry. He pointed out that the operation of the refinery was important because the costs of importing oil derivatives cost a lot of the budget, and this was one of the successful solutions to solve the problem of derivatives Oil in the liberated areas and in the Kurdistan Region and Kirkuk. "

Jihad stressed that "the Qayyara field was damaged by igniting many wells before calling out before leaving the city, and therefore the number of wells in the Qayara field is 50 wells affected by 34 wells with different damage, noting that 18 wells from those wells caught fire, And the Ministry of Oil has priority to prevent the arrival of crude oil leaking from these wells to the river and pollution and work to extinguish nearby wells so as to reduce the pollution and control of 18 wells and now has been extinguished permanently.

"We sent a letter to Angolan company Songol and came to Baghdad and met with them. The oil minister asked them to return quickly to Najma and Qayara fields in Nineveh province. We are now waiting for the response from this company to come to Ninewa," he said. Security aspect ".

"We need to unite and cooperate to provide these opportunities in order to attract these companies and return their benefit to the Iraqi citizen in these provinces and in the region," he said. And therefore we have to provide this atmosphere in order to give guarantees to these companies and therefore we can promote these projects. "

As for the differences of the Kurdistan Regional Government and the federal government on the establishment of oil refineries in Kirkuk, the spokesman said that "despite the problems we are brothers and in our interest one may be a difference of views on this subject but in the end we agree on the issue of the Iraqi citizen located in Iraq or located in Kurdistan Region and in relation to the problem that has occurred in recent times, certainly things do not come by force. "

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