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Monday, November 26, 2007
Letter to the Iraqi oil minsiter
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This is the letter sent by Iraqi oil professionals to the Speaker and members of Iraqi parliament and to Dr. H. Shahrastani, minister of oil, denouncing the actions taken by KRG in signing PSAs including some outside the territories of KRG and in support of the stance taken by the oil ministry and the oil & gas parliamentarian committee.
The Speaker and Members of Iraqi Parliament
Nvember 26, 2007
Assalamu Alaykum
During the last few weeks, the region of Iraqi Kurdistan announced on its website and through media that they had signed nearly 15 production sharing agreements with foreign companies without the prior approval of the Ministry of Oil or awaiting the approval of a federal oil law.
Dr. Shahrastani, Minister of Oil has correctly declared on a number of occasions that the Ministry consider all those agreements as illegal and threatened that the Ministry will take legal action against those companies as well as putting them in a black list depriving them from participation in any future contracts with the Oil Ministry. The Oil & Gas parliamentarian committee adopted a similar position which is certainly the correct stance that must be supported by all political and popular groups regardless of their other politics to stand united against this deliberate and dangerous action by the KRG.
On another hand, the KRG actions were not only limited to a policy of signing such contracts but in fact followed a more dangerous step that has no legal or political standing whatsoever and that is by overstepping on the rights of other components of the Iraqi people when it awarded in some of those contracts blocks that extend well beyond the boundaries of Iraqi Kurdistan towards Ninewa, Tamim, Salah el-Deen and Diyala including the one with the US Hunt Oil.
KRG also decided unilaterally to give one of its newly founded oil companies the responsibility of developing Khurmala which is one of the three domes of Kirkuk field. Two years ago, SCOP of the Oil Ministry had recently completed the engineering & procurement of all related materials and equipment and was about to start construction activities but were not allowed to do so by KRG.
The Iraqi oil professionals, who had previously warned in their previous letters and declarations in February and July 2007 of the danger of dividing the responsibility of negotiations and signing of oil contracts and had asked for it to remain exclusively for the Ministry and Iraq National Oil Company, they now consider the steps by KRG as illegal.
It was also obvious that the signing of so many contracts within only few weeks indicate that KRG had continued negotiations with foreign companies even while discussing the draft oil law and regardless of the opinions and reservations of the other political blocks and popular organizations.
The deliberate action by the authorities of Iraqi Kurdistan and without any due considerations of other views and objections, proves clearly that the position taken by the Iraqi oil professionals previously was a correct one and they would like to confirm their stance and declare their support for the stance taken by the Minister of Oil and the Oil & Gas parliamentarian committee in rejecting those contracts.
They also hope that the legislating bodies will also take into considerations the vital comments made by the oil professionals on the various drafts of the oil law and ask them to rewrite it in such a way that it guarantees the national rights of the Iraqi people and not to rush into legislating the said law.
Signatories: 60 Iraqi oil professionals
CC: Dr. Hussein Shahrastani; Minister of Oil, Head of the Parliamentarian Oil & Gas Committee
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Comments:
Evelyn
Reference your first comment above, how about a "a low-risk, standard practice" of water boarding?
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Two senior Iraqi officials . . . say Iraq's government will embrace a long-term U.S. troop presence in return for U.S. security guarantees as part of a strategic partnership. The two officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the subject is sensitive, said U.S. military and diplomatic representatives appeared generally favorable, subject to negotiations on the details, which include preferential treatment for American investments.
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Evelyn
Reference your first comment above, how about a "a low-risk, standard practice" of water boarding?
While I agree with the argument put forwards by the letter and with the official position from the KRG - I cannot help but be suspicious about the real motives of the oil minister in rejecting those oil contracts.
After all, this is the man who is full of praise for the proposed oil law!
After all, this is the man who is full of praise for the proposed oil law!
Annapolis will lead to nowhere: At this point, it seems Israel has mastered the art of deception. (Does one expect a leopard to change its spots?)
US roadblock shootings in Iraq kill 5 . . . including a child
"As I understand it, some of the warning fire ricocheted and may have killed two to three individuals," said Rear Adm. Gregory Smith, a U.S. military spokesman. (You see, the military didn't actually take aim. Good thing.)
"As I understand it, some of the warning fire ricocheted and may have killed two to three individuals," said Rear Adm. Gregory Smith, a U.S. military spokesman. (You see, the military didn't actually take aim. Good thing.)
Time magazine lavishly rewards journalistic malpractice (Not 'malpractice'. Rather, practice. Again, see MOCKINGBIRD.)
Fake News and Propaganda: Shaping Our Reality: David Rockefeller is quoted as saying, “We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine, and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years.”
AP photographer jailed for "taking photographs the U.S. government did not want its citizens to see," say AP chief: Bilal has been imprisoned by the U.S. military in Iraq since he was picked up April 12, 2006, in Ramadi, a violent town in a turbulent province where few Western journalists dared go. The military claimed then that he had suspicious links to insurgents. This week, Editor & Publisher magazine reported the military has amended that to say he is, in fact, a "terrorist" who had "infiltrated the AP."
We believe Bilal's crime was taking photographs the U.S. government did not want its citizens to see. That he was part of a team of AP photographers who had just won a Pulitzer Prize for work in Iraq may have made Bilal even more of a marked man.
In the 19 months since he was picked up, Bilal has not been charged with any crime, although the military has sent out a flurry of ever-changing claims. Every claim we've checked out has proved to be false, overblown or microscopic in significance. Now, suddenly, the military plans to seek a criminal case against Bilal in the Iraqi court system in just days. But the military won't tell us what the charges are, what evidence it will be submitting or even when the hearing will be held.
We believe Bilal's crime was taking photographs the U.S. government did not want its citizens to see. That he was part of a team of AP photographers who had just won a Pulitzer Prize for work in Iraq may have made Bilal even more of a marked man.
In the 19 months since he was picked up, Bilal has not been charged with any crime, although the military has sent out a flurry of ever-changing claims. Every claim we've checked out has proved to be false, overblown or microscopic in significance. Now, suddenly, the military plans to seek a criminal case against Bilal in the Iraqi court system in just days. But the military won't tell us what the charges are, what evidence it will be submitting or even when the hearing will be held.
Iraq's Oil Minister Hussein al-Shahristani had earlier said the crude pipeline would pump some 100,000 barrels a day of Basra Light to Iran. Basra crude oil would be sold to Iran in accordance with international oil prices, he said.
http://www.downstreamtoday.com/News/Articles/200711/Iraq_Iran_Agree_to_Build_Two_Oil_Pipeli_6981.aspx
Hussein al-Shahristani this genius guy can tell us better lie than this?
Dose Iran in need crud oil?
Dose Iran has refineries that able to export oil products?
Iran importing 40% of oil products from Europe and India and other courtiers.
Hussein al-Shahristani was accusing old regime all sort from Nuclear Bomb from old 5MW obsolete Russian reactor to inhuman treatment he faced in prison from Saddam grads (he need to visit Iraqis in prisons and see what they facing now they are in Sheraton Hotel) to the streets of Iraq and schools which let him and other criminals like him finish his PhD and university free.
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http://www.downstreamtoday.com/News/Articles/200711/Iraq_Iran_Agree_to_Build_Two_Oil_Pipeli_6981.aspx
Hussein al-Shahristani this genius guy can tell us better lie than this?
Dose Iran in need crud oil?
Dose Iran has refineries that able to export oil products?
Iran importing 40% of oil products from Europe and India and other courtiers.
Hussein al-Shahristani was accusing old regime all sort from Nuclear Bomb from old 5MW obsolete Russian reactor to inhuman treatment he faced in prison from Saddam grads (he need to visit Iraqis in prisons and see what they facing now they are in Sheraton Hotel) to the streets of Iraq and schools which let him and other criminals like him finish his PhD and university free.
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