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South Kurdistan oil & gas development
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Gazprom estimates Halabja reserves has 100 million tones

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Halabja, Kurdistan Region- Russia’s fifth- largest crude producer Gazprom Neft said the reserves of Halabja, a region in the east of South Kurdistan, is estimated to be at between 80 million and 100 million tones.

The company’s first chief executive officer deputy, Valdim Yakovlev, said the company is the operator of the project and their immediate task is to map out an exploration and research program.

“Investments have not been defined yet. The exploration period will last 7 years,” Yakovlev was quoted by Interfax as saying on Wednesday.

The company has signed a deal to enter the oil project in Halabja, by securing 80 percent of the project, the company’s third in the northern autonomous South Kurdistan.

During his visit to Moscow last week, the president of South Kurdistan, Massoud Barzani, said Gazprom Neft had signed news agreements with Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) without disclosing details.

Gazprom Neft acquired interests in two South Kurdistan blocks, Garmian and Shakal, last August.
Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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No End in Sight for Iraq-KRG Oil Dispute

Hewlêr — Nechirvan Barzani, prime minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government of i-rack, is criticizing Baghdad for threatening to cancel the contracts of companies operating in the country’s southern oil fields if they refuse to stop dealing separately with the Kurds.

“Instead of warning companies to choose between the KRG or Baghdad, it’s in i-rack’s interest to cooperate more and ... for the KRG and Baghdad to sit down and find a solution,” Barzani told Al-Monitor in an exclusive interview.

His comments are likely to add fuel to the dispute simmering between the KRG and the central government in Baghdad, which argues that the semiautonomous South Kurdistan has no legal authority to export oil or sign agreements for development. The Kurds, however, maintain that i-rack’s constitution gives them the right to do so. They have already signed contracts with a number of multinational companies, including Chevron, ExxonMobil, and Gazprom. In January, i-racki Oil Minister Abdul Kareem Luaibi ordered ExxonMobil to decide between Kurdistan and southern i-rack.

“This approach for Baghdad to tell ExxonMobil to choose between Kurdistan and i-rack, in our view, is a very wrong approach, because... that oil belongs to all of i-rack,” Barzani said. “Those companies that now deal with the KRG are aware of our right in the i-racki constitution. That’s why they came to the KRG.”

i-racki Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, however, has argued that the Kurds’ oil policy threatens to splinter the country’s fragile federal state by tempting its other oil-rich regions to also strike independent deals. This dispute, along with broader security concerns, has undermined Baghdad’s drive to boost oil production, now averaging around 3 million barrels per day (bpd), to more than 8 million bpd by 2017.

“If you have one part of the country producing and exporting and selling the oil, then Basra, the southern part, will do the same, and the other governorates will do the same, and this will have no government planning,” said Abdullah al-Amir, the principal personal advisor to Hussein al-Shahristani, i-rack’s deputy prime minister for energy affairs, in an interview with Al-Monitor. “There will be no [central] government revenues because each governorate will do whatever it wants. This is against the constitution of i-rack.”

Amir said Kurdistan should submit all its oil contracts to i-rack’s Oil Ministry for approval and claimed that at present only one-third of the KRG’s oil revenues are being transferred to the central government. “There is no record of what is happening to the [other] two-thirds of production, where the revenues are going, what prices the oil is sold at,” he said.

Earlier in February, a dispute over payments to oil companies working in Kurdistan prompted the i-racki parliament to indefinitely postpone a vote on the national budget. Some lawmakers called for cutting Kurdistan’s share of the budget from 17% to no more than 12%. The Kurds say they are entitled to 17% of the federal budget, which is financed largely through the sale of crude oil, including from Kurdistan. They claim that they already receive much less than that.

“Our 17%, after subtracting the budget for the i-racki president’s office, the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Interior ... in fact is 11.5% of the total budget of i-rack,” Nawzad Hani Mawlood, the governor of Hewlêr province, told Al-Monitor. He added that the South Kurdistan relies on this revenue to pay wages for civil servants and other operating expenses.

Tensions were already on the rise before the budget battle. In December, Kurdistan had stopped exporting oil through a federal pipeline and instead began transporting it by truck across the border with Turkey. These exports are modest, some 10,000 to 20,000 bpd, according to Robin Mills, head of consulting at Dubai-based Manaar Energy. This means Kurdistan has a long way to go to achieve Prime Minister Barzani’s goal of exporting around half a million barrels a day by the end of this year and 1 million a day by 2014.

“To have a really self-sustaining industry, they need either a solid agreement with Baghdad on pipeline access or an independent pipeline,” Mills said. The KRG has been discussing developing plans to build a pipeline to export Kurdistan oil through Turkey, though Mills questions the likelihood of an agreement taking shape any time soon.

The clash over oil is part of a larger feud between Kurdistan and i-rack’s Shiite Arab–led administration over land and autonomy. “[The oil dispute] is just a front to a more existential contest over federalism, land, and authority,” said an American oil investor who has worked in i-rack and spoke on condition of anonymity. “I think the oil issue is a symptom and not a cause. So long as it is going to represent itself as a democracy, i-rack cannot be governed as a unitary, centralized state. There is no way Sunnis and Kurds would willingly subject themselves to that level of centralized Shiite control.”

Late last year, both the Kurds and Baghdad deployed troops to a disputed area along Kurdistan’s southern boundary. In recent weeks, the area has been shaken by a wave of bombings, including a suicide attack that killed at least 15 people in the oil-rich city of Kirkuk.

Despite the standoff, Kurdistan’s prime minister doesn’t expect the conflict to escalate into war. “Maybe there will be tensions sometimes, problems everywhere, but war, I don’t think so,” Barzani said. “We both are not stupid, so war, no. I don’t expect it.”

Mills, the consultant, agreed that open conflict is unlikely. “[It] would be disastrous for both sides,” he said. “It would embolden Sunnis in western and KRG who are opposed to the Baghdad government and would invite intervention by Turkey and Iran.”

Baghdad can’t afford to fight the Kurds right now, according to Governor Mawlood, because it has its hands full with possible spillover from neighboring Syria. He believes that if Syrian President Bashar al-Assad falls, Sunni Muslims there will come to power and could incite i-rack’s Sunnis to rise up against the Shiite-led government.

“So the competition is between Shiites and Sunnis in Baghdad, not the Kurds,” asserted Mawlood. “We don’t take part in that. [Maliki] needs the support of Kurds because he wants to stay prime minister. So he needs the votes of Kurds for this position, but he is making a mistake.”

Read more: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/02/baghdad-iraqi-kurdistan-oil-dispute.html#ixzz2MDLW6zpO
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“Our 17%, after subtracting the budget for the i-racki president’s office, the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Interior ... in fact is 11.5% of the total budget of i-rack,” Nawzad Hani Mawlood, the governor of Hewlêr province, told Al-Monitor. He added that the Kurdistan Region relies on this revenue to pay wages for civil servants and other operating expenses.


so we only get 11.5% !! :smackhead i think KRG should now seek to change the name from budget to genocide compensation and this will make them shut their mouths.
Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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finally some more info on the pipelines progress xD

Genel Energy: KRG will export its oil via own pipeline from start of the new year

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1/3/2013

ERBIL, Kurdistan - Genel energy has announced that Kurdistan Government will export its oil via own pipelines from the beginning of next year, adding that the autonomous region is now exporting 45-55,000 bpd via trucks with an income generated about $400 million annually.

Julian Mercil the general director of the company in a statement has declared that, "KRG production and export this year has been around 45-55,000 bpd, with a yearly income of $400 million".

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The pipelines will run parallel with the Iraqi 80 year old line

In its annually report the company has published that the first phase of constructing KRG's independent pipelines to Turkey is almost complete. A pipeline with a width of 20 inches which starts from TaqTaq field stretching to Khurmala field. The company reveals that, in the first quarter of 2013 the TaqTaq to Erbil refinery pipeline with a capacity of 150,000 bpd to become operational, its second phase starts from Khurmala field to Fish Khabur will be completed by the start of 2014.

http://www.knnc.net/NewsDetailN.aspx?id=28469&LinkID=63
http://www.genelenergy.com/media/35303/2012_prelim_statement_final.pdf
Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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£50m profit for new Kurdistan oil firm Genel Energy could result in bid by giant

By Rob Davis — This is Money

LONDON,— Tony Hayward admitted Genel Energy could face a bid by an oil giant keen to cash in on the Kurdistan oil boom, as he unveiled a £50million profit in the firm’s first full year.

The former BP boss also distanced himself from the ongoing trial in the US over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Shares in Genel slipped 19p to 740p, as it warned 2013 output might not rise from 45,000 barrels per day amid a row over exports between semi-autonomous Kurdistan and the Iraqi government.

Genel has the capacity to produce 80,000 bpd, but is pumping just 50,000 bpd because the export dispute means it is can only sell in the local market at the moment. The firm plans to export to Turkey regardless of Baghdad’s objections, allowing it to sell at international prices of more than $100 per barrel, compared with the $75 it gets in Kurdistan.

And Hayward said any political resolution to the export impasse could prove a ‘phenomenal catalyst’ for the company.

Genel has become a mouthwatering prospect for international oil giants who think Kurdish oil will start flowing more quickly and Hayward, left, admitted a takeover bid could emerge this year.

‘Once the big guys arrive they tend to hoover up what’s on offer. We’ve got lots of what’s on offer.’

He added: ‘It’s certainly a dimension to the Genel story, of that there is no doubt. With all the consolidation going on, it could be an interesting year for the company.’

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Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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Turkey-Kurdistan oil pact imminent

[8:26] 13/Mar/03

PNA - Tony Hayward, the former chief executive of BP who now leads London-listed Genel Energy, has predicted a formal agreement between Turkey and Kurdistan within months that will lead to full-scale exports from the oil-rich region from next year.

His forecast of an imminent pact between governments in Ankara and Erbil to approve full-scale exports from the semi-autonomous territory came as Genel committed to further exploration in Kurdistan and north Africa.

Genel, along with several other early-stage producers who have struck deals with the Kurdistan Regional Government, remain locked in a stand-off with Iraq’s federal government in Baghdad that has challenged the legitimacy of licenses granted by the regional government.

A compromise deal last September that led to a short-run resumption of exports through Baghdad-controlled federal pipeline system from Kurdistan has since collapsed leading the KRG to sanction small-scale exports of oil from fields to Turkey by tanker.
On Wednesday, Mr Hayward described the level of exports by tanker, running at no more than 5,000 barrels a day, as “symbolic for supply of exports between Turkey and the KRG”.
But he pointed to good progress in the building of a new pipeline capable of exporting up to 1m barrels of oil a day to the Turkish border that is expected to be operational by 2014.
“Some things are not in our control but we believe we will see interesting progress in the first half that will see full-blown exports in 2014,” said Mr Hayward.

by Soran Ali

- See more at: http://www.peyamner.com/English/PNAnews.aspx?ID=304698#sthash.gdvxUrzO.dpuf
Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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Exxon Mobil in Kirkuk for oil exploration

Despite the persistent tensions between the central government and Kurdistan Regional Government, of which a part is associated with oil, the KRG is currently attempting to extend its oil industries to Kirkuk.

The administrations of the Qarahanjir sub-district of Kirkuk announced that Exxon Mobil will start oil exploration beginning in March as delegates of the company visited the sub-district for the first time.

The administrator of Qarahanjir, Avesta sheikh Muhammad, told Mada Press “Delegates of Exxon Mobil headed by the company’s public relations officer visited the Qarahanjir sub-district on January 1 to meet the administration staff of the sub-district and for further evaluation of the region.”

“Agreements between the company and the KRG are speculated, as the company will be carrying out oil explorations and extraction in some areas of Kurdistan,” Sheikh Muhammad added.

“We expect the company to start its duties by March in the Qarahanjir, Qadir Karam, and Jabara sub-districts, as the development in the oil industries will further benefit Kirkuk, Kuristan, and i-rack,” he added.

Qarahanjir, which is one of the disputed territories, lies to the north of Kirkuk between the cities of Kirkuk and Sulaymaniah. The administration staff of the sub-district is appointed by the KRG.

Analysts think that this attempt of the KRG for extending their oil industries in the disputed territories to be a response for the central government, as the i-racki Minister of Oil Abdulkarim Li’eby has previously announced that they have initial agreements with the British BP company for developing of the Northern Kirkuk oil fields which struggles with a low production output. The announcement sparked fierce reactions by the Kurdish officials, who warned the British company to stay out between the political conflicts between Baghdad and Hewlêr .

In an interview with the BBC, the Kurdish Minister of Natural Resources, Ashti Hawrami said “The South Kurdistan is in no need for permissions from the central government regarding their financial and economical developments, as the i-racki constitution has granted Kurdistan all the rights to do so.”

“We are about to build an oil transport pipeline system to Turkey without even telling the central government about it,” Hawrami added.

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^^ an older article but thanks for posting it :)
Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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They are acting sooner than i thought haha

Kurdistan Government to establish a company for it's oil sector

03/Mar/03

An MP from Kurdistan parliament announced that, Kurdistan Government is seeking an appropriate mechanism to send oil profits to the Parl't and that KRG also wants to establish a company for the oil sector.

Khalil Osman, told (PNA) that, "it's been sometime now a legislation regarding the oil projects in Kurdistan has reached Kurdistan parliament, meanwhile another legislation has been sent to us regarding the establishment of an oil company for the oil sector, which together they will be capable of organizing and management of Kurdistan's oil activities".

"enough work has been put into both of the legislation and we hope to send it to parliament session to have them passed" he added.

He also revealed that from now onwards all of the oil profits will be sent directly to parliament.

http://www.peyamner.com/PNAnews
Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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He also revealed that from now onwards all of the oil profits will be sent directly to parliament.
What does this mean exactly?
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He also revealed that from now onwards all of the oil profits will be sent directly to parliament.


What does this mean exactly?
the profit share that KRG gets from its oil contracts will be sent to parliament this has nothing to do with companies PS shares. :)
Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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you know what's funny guys? milki is following iran footsteps in its oil. when in 1953 iran president kicked out US and Brit oil companies, experts etc... to " nationalize" the oil so that Iranian people gets all the oil which has ever since faced an international embargo. but has the Iranian oil benefited Iranian people??? lol Iran is now literally starving it was when I was there in 1999 they were starving imagine now, the same with milki and I-rack. at least we will give some to US but get to live a better lifestyle like the gulf states do. compare gulf to Iran and I-rack.
Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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the profit share that KRG gets from its oil contracts will be sent to parliament this has nothing to do with companies PS shares. :)
Yeah ok but do they plan to leave Bagdad out or do they mean profit after Bagdads share?


Do you know how KRG and Bagdad share profit?
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Yeah ok but do they plan to leave Bagdad out or do they mean profit after Bagdads share?


Do you know how KRG and Bagdad share profit?
yeah Baghdad will be left out it, this is all the profit the KR is making from its oil exports. since iraq have stopped supplying KR with refined oil produce of the 17% share, apparently KR would export its oil and only take out the 17% but what KR will do is deduct all of the expenses Baghdad has cut from KR in the past, like Peshmerga, IOC dues and etc.. there is not much cooperation between the two sides at the moment, bcos baghdad's only wish is to keep Kurdistan oil sector undeveloped, something kurds will not except in 100 years. we have given an ocean of blood to be able to control our own oil we wont let iraqis just take it away form us, and the 17% we get is pretty much all of Kirkuk's 450,000 bpd output for it been a majority Kurdish city since the early 1920s which is well documented by the Brits.
Now baghdad does not pay the dues for IOCs in KR, they said the oil must be exported via SOMO and when KR did so they still didnt pay the dues, and they dont pay the outstanding $7 billion Peshmerga budget since 2007 which is well mentioned in their constitution, so what KR will do from now on when it has the pipelines operational is; deduct all that is owing from the past and current yearly budget and send them the rest which wont be much left anyway, i think KR will never move to export more that the 17% allocated to it. Kurdistan oil must be for kurds and iraq's for iraq, we do get the 17% from them but that is all from Kirkuk's outputs which KRG wants to annex anyway since it has always been a majority Kurdish city and was attached to iraq along with the other Kurdish areas which is now called KRG and was then known as Mosul Willayat, KR has 2/3 of the Kirkuk province under its control but it is not official yet, once it becomes one there KR wont seek this tiny budget any more. Exxon is in Kirkuk via KR, soon it will take over pretty much over the 7 Kurdish district of Kirkuk which does have Peshmerga presence since the dijla militias were sent to Arabic districts of the province.

Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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Kirkuk council: Oil Ministry does not deal seriously with the local administration

Head of the provincial council in Kirkuk Hassan Turan, Tuesday, he was considered that the oil ministry in all its institutions do not deal seriously with the local administration of the province, while stressing the need to take into account the North Oil Company the national balance in appointments allocated by the ministry.

Tauran in an interview for "Alsumaria News" on the sidelines of a meeting with Deputy Director General of the i-racki Drilling Company Mohamed Ahmed Batosh, on Tuesday said "The Federal Ministry of Oil and all its institutions do not deal seriously with the province of Kirkuk and the evidence is lack of coordination between the provincial council and the North Oil Company," calling "the need to take into account the North Oil Company the national balance in appointments allocated by the ministry. "

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^^ this was related to news that BP might come to Kurdish districts of the province to explore oil, but KRG and Kirkuk administration will never allow this, even with their f16s, bcos these areas and their wealth belong to KRG which has signed contracts with ExxonMobil, that is the guarantee KRG has which is way better than wasting money on 2nd hand Israeli made jets.

now BP has backed off. of course BP can go to Hawija and look for all they like but in the Kurdish districts of Kirkuk they are not welcomed, Exxon is :) .
Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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now BP has backed off.
really, how do you that?

Btw, you're doing a terrific job. Thank you very much for all your updates in 'Urban developments' & 'General Developments and infrastructure' section.
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^^ you are welcomed my brother from another mother xD

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Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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Kurdistan will export its oil without handing over its revenues to Iraqi government: KA

March 8, 2013

BAGHDAD,— Kurdish MP Muhsin al-Saadoun pointed that Kurdistan region will export its oil without handing over its revenues to the Iraqi federal government, for adopting the general budget without allocations of oil companies' fees.

The National Alliance, on the other side, threatened that these amounts will be deducted from the Kurdish region's local budget allocated in the federal one.

Saadoun criticized the budget for not implementing the demands of the Kurds, or "the injustice in the federal budget", as he confirmed.

He pointed out that "the Kurdish component had been neglected" and he is "worried on the local allocations of the Kurdish region because it is stipulated in the constitution, which cannot be changed unless a census is made".

Parliamentary sources said that the approved budget reached to $118 billion dollars.

The budget session was boycotted by Iraqiya and Kurdish blocs, but the voting was passed by the presence of 168 MPs out of 325.

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Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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Kurdistan MP: "State of law uses the dues of the oil companies politically"

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Kurds: We will not produce 250 thousand barrels of Oil a day unless Baghdad bears oil companie's costs

09/03/2013 22:18:00

Erbil (NINA) – South Kurdistan's Ministry of Natural Resources said that it will not abide to produce and export 250,000 barrels of oil a day unless Baghdad bears the costs of foreign oil companies.

In a statement to the press on Saturday, March 9, Natural Resources Ministry's Advisor, Hussein Ballo, said that Erbil is not willing to send 250,000 barrels of oil a day to Baghdad, unless the latter bears the costs and loans of oil companies working oil exploration in the Region.

He added that agreements between Erbil and Baghdad stipulate that the Federal Government pays the dues of foreign companies working in the Region's oil exploration against Erbil produces 250 thousand barrels of oil a day.

"We will not send this quantity of oil unless the Federal Government pays loans and dues of foreign companies.
Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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Kurdistan is heading to the Declaration of Independence oil

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The leader of the Kurdistan Alliance bloc of the i-racki Council of Representatives Muhsin al-Sadoun said the Kurdistan Regional Government will announce oil independence from the central government in Baghdad.
He pointed out that Article 112 of the Constitution gave the power of the territory to manage the oil Public, this article will be implemented through non-compliance with the export of oil, according to Sadoun.
And enhances the directions KRG toward more economic independence, is what was announced by Kurdish source close to the Government of the Territory, in a press statement, that "in light of the continued repetition of hostile attitudes from the federal government against the government of the region, and the creation of dozens of problems and crises with her ​​about the simplest things addressed by the Constitution, and encroachment of the federal authority on human Kurdistan constitutional, and the neglect of their demands basic, first and foremost pay dues of oil companies and balancing the Peshmerga and the rest of the financial disputes, the policy of the current government headed by Barzani is heading in the future towards greater economic independence from the center " .
The source, who requested anonymity, "although it is still a chance to overcome those problems and disagreements, but in the event negotiations fail next on resolving the outstanding problems between Hewlêr and Baghdad, this option will be the desired option in order to continue the region in achieving its economic and development."
The Kurdish members of the i-racki parliament boycotted the Thursday session to vote on the budget this year, in protest at the amount allocated for the payment of oil companies operating in the South Kurdistan of i-rack, said Kurdish lawmaker Rose Khoshnaw The draft budget did not include any of the demands of the Kurds.
The open dispute over the budget a new front in a long dispute between the central government and the South Kurdistan, has signed powers of the latter in recent years contracts with international oil companies independently without the approval of Baghdad, says the region that the central government owes him more than four trillion i-racki dinars (3.5 billion dollars) to cover the costs incurred by the oil companies operating there over the past three years, but Baghdad adheres to the illegality of the contracts between South Kurdistan and foreign oil companies.
Has been allocated within the budget 750 billion dinars ($ 644 million) for the oil companies operating in Kurdistan, including major companies such as Exxon Mobil and Chevron of the Americas and Russia's Gazprom denied.
Baghdad demands
In contrast, demanding Baghdad Government of the Territory ten billion dollars, and says it export revenues territory of the quantities of crude oil during the years that followed in 2008, and demanded that the central government deduct benefits oil companies operating in Kurdistan of this amount, and re-balance to the central treasury of the state.
The Kurdistan Alliance bloc announced before passing the federal budget it will challenge in the project before the Federal Court if they are passed without response to the demands of the block, which is not just about entitlements oil companies in Kurdistan but also a dispute over Article 140 of the fate of Kirkuk, as well as the dispute over the budget peshmerga.
It should be noted that South Kurdistan authorities began months ago in the export of crude oil to the world market directly through Turkey by truck without taking the approval of the central government. The subject of control of the oil center of the conflict between Baghdad and the Government of the Territory, where First insists it her constitutional right to exclusively in the export of oil.
Previously, the Kurdistan Regional Government of i-rack halted shipment of crude oil through the pipeline vector to the Turkish port of Ceyhan and the Baghdad-controlled, because of renewed conflict on the dues of the oil companies operating in the region.

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Build roads if you want oil to flow, say Kurds

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Attracting tourists to Hewlêr and the statue of Ibn Al-Mistawfi that guards its citadel could be a by-product of the region’s oil boom, but regional leaders are warning that it could quickly turn to bust — with consequences for the wider, future Kurdish economy — unless oil companies invest in new roads, bridges and buildings.

Sinan Çelebi, the minister for trade and industry in the Kurdistan Regional Government, said that foreign oil explorers needed to contribute more to roads and other building projects before the area’s energy production hit the buffers.

Since the fall of Saddam Hussein nearly ten years ago, Hewlêr , the region’s capital, has been the centre of a frenzied oil rush. The region has awarded 50 contracts for oil and gas exploration and the number of drilling rigs is expected to almost double from the existing 24 by the end of next year.

Although costs can be twice as high as in the rest of i-rack, because much of the region’s oil is heavy and mixed with toxic hydrogen sulphide gas, its exceptionally high strike rate — about seven wells in ten succeed — has turned heads around the world.
Four out of the world’s ten largest international oil companies, including Exxon Mobil and Chevron, are established in the northern autonomous region of Kurdistan, but there are concerns that it may not be able to keep up with the frantic pace of growth.

Mr Çelebi cited a bridge on a strategic road that would struggle to bear the increasing numbers of lorries loaded with oil and equipment. If the KRG raises oil production to more than a million barrels a day, as it hopes to do by 2015, the structure will shudder under the weight of 8,000 trucks a day, he said. “It won’t be possible to get over that bridge,” he said.

Ruth Lux, the managing director at Strategic Analysis, a political consultancy, said that the regional government’s infrastructure was regarded as an obstacle to its oil and gas sector, as well as other parts of its economy. “Nonetheless, the KRG has already instigated plans to incentivise and encourage the private sector to enhance investment in development of its road networks,” she said.

Mr Çelebi hinted at “problems” amid tensions between Hewlêr and Baghdad, which have led to threats of military action and oil companies entering the northern region threatened with being blacklisted in the rest of i-rack.

Ms Lux said the threats were posturing on the central Government’s behalf, and added: “It is probable that these large oil firms are using their interests in the KRG as leverage in negotiating contracts in southern i-rack.”

There are significant oil and gas reserves in a disputed band running across the entire width of the country.

Mr Çelebi emphasised that the KRG was dependent on foreign investment, with a ten-year tax exemption for all profits made by overseas companies in the region. He also revealed that it hoped to begin exporting electricity within the next three years.

After more than 40 years of collectivisation under the rule of Abdul Karim Qasim and Saddam Hussein, the government is shedding assets to the private sector. Blocks of land are being offered to foreign companies for minimal sums if they pledge to invest in the region’s priority industries, such as agriculture, construction and education. “It’s simple – we need you, and you need us,” Mr Çelebi said.

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Iraq-Kurdistan oil dispute could mark end of national partnership

Officials in i-rack and the South Kurdistan are taking a firm stand as a national oil dispute boils over.

Baghdad has given the Kurds just a fraction of the billions of dollars requested for oil companies in Kurdistan. The Kurds say all the money should have been included in i-rack's budget.

But the budget was passed last week amid a boycott by all Kurdish MPs in i-rack's parliament and half of the opposition Iraqiya bloc. Some observers say this now marks the end of national partnership.

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Deputy for Law: Spare Kurdistan oil revenues must be offset by deducting exaggeration of provincial budget allocations

The MP said the coalition of state law, Abdul Salam al-Maliki said that "i-racki oil is for the people and not the right of the South Kurdistan to act outside the framework of the constitution.

Maliki said in a statement received by the agency all of i-rack [where] a copy of it on Tuesday that "the i-racki government is not limited or they do not know the people's interest as it is preference component at the expense of another, but it's on the contrary works on average between all the components and rarely to come by from here or there and trying to teach what should and what should not. "

"The export of oil is a constitutional right for the oil ministry exclusively and revenues back to the state treasury, one of the sets priorities for divided between the provinces of i-rack, whether in the north of i-rack, or south, according to the merits of each of them, according to the Constitution either without this, all the leaders of the South Kurdistan to move away from the threat to cut off oil or other because this is not of their powers. "

Maliki stressed that "any move to cut off oil revenue source of the province must be offset by the deduction of an exaggeration of the provincial budget allocations amounting to 17%."

The House of Representatives voted last Thursday majority on a bill the state budget despite the province of the Kurdistan Alliance and the i-racki List, for the hearing.

For his part, a response to the adoption of the budget despite a boycott of the voting session and chooses to ignore his demands Kurdistan Alliance announced last Thursday that "the Kurdistan Regional Government will no longer committed to the export of oil and will resort to economic independence from the federal government."

The vice president of the Kurdistan Alliance Mohsen Saadoun told a news conference attended by Vice Alliance, attended [where], that "Article [112] of the Constitution gave the power to the South Kurdistan of running Public oil, so will travel the province to non-compliance with export and Sistql economically," adding "and We have the right to appeal in the Federal Court regarding certain articles of the budget law, "saying not to include payments to the oil companies operating in Kurdistan" was dangerous, especially important that there are companies operating in the oil industry in the province. "

i-rack has been a political crisis led continuing to exit popular demonstrations continuing in the provinces of Anbar, Nineveh and Salahuddin, demanding the release of detainees and prisoners and the issuance of the amnesty law and the abolition of Justice and Accountability Law [de-Baathification previously] and article [4] terrorism, balancing, and other demands. Ended .

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