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| ALAN | Apr 12 13, 3:28 Post #451 |
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just a smart ass comment |
| 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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| Kinematik | Apr 12 13, 4:13 Post #452 |
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Wheres your sence of humor? ![]() Of course he have to say this, do you think it will be easier to get ICG to cooperate if he says they will seek independence as soon as pipelines are built? |
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| FeyliKurd | Apr 15 13, 2:12 Post #453 |
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Kurdish official urging Washington to be neutral in oil dispute with Baghdad WASHINGTON — i-rack’s northern Kurdish region is pressing the Obama administration to remain neutral in a sensitive dispute with the i-racki central government over whether it can export oil and gas without Baghdad’s approval. The Kurdish Regional Government’s Energy Minister Ashti Hawrami was meeting with Obama administration officials Friday following recent talks with Turkey about completing pipelines over Baghdad’s objections that could vastly expand the Kurds’ ability to directly sell its oil and gas. The U.S. opposition to the Kurds’ energy deals has put it at odds with its NATO ally Turkey amid concerns that the dispute over dividing i-rack’s immense energy wealth could threaten i-rack’s stability. Turkey, which is eager to expand its energy supply, backs the Kurds’ position that the i-racki constitution gives its regions some power to sign oil and gas deals independently. The U.S. says the deals need federal approval. In an interview ahead of the meetings in Washington, Hawrami said that he hoped that the Obama administration would avoid taking sides. “Our advice to them has always been to not get involved with interpretation of the constitution,” he said. Baghdad and the Kurds have been at loggerheads for years over rights to develop Kurdistan’s oil wealth, but tensions have been on the rise in recent months. The Kurds, who have their own armed forces, have signed dozens of deals with foreign oil companies since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. The tensions have spiked recently over the talks with Ankara about completing a pipeline to Turkey. With growing energy needs, Turkey has backed the Kurdish position. It has also grown closer to the KRG, seeing it as an important partner in its bid to strike a peace deal with rebels in its own Kurdish region. Hawrami said that work to convert one pipeline to Turkey intended for natural gas into an oil pipeline could be completed within months, though Turkey would still need to build capacity to move the oil to its own markets before it could be used. The Kurds have also begun trucking smaller quantities of oil into Turkey, prompting allegations of smuggling and threats of lawsuits from Baghdad. The central government believes it has the exclusive constitutional right to manage the country’s oil policy and wants all exports to travel through state-run pipelines. Hawrami argues that the constitution provides the KRG the power to strike its own deals, particularly those involving new oil and gas discoveries. The constitution calls for the country to divide its oil revenues from between its central government and its regions. Hawrami says that the regional government will return revenues from exports to the central government after it has taken its legal allocation and paid contractors. He called the dispute a political standoff with Baghdad about the country’s future. “The time has come to resolve the constitutional issues, because i-rack’s unity is at stake,” he said. Source: The Washington Post |
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| Mr Hauser | Apr 16 13, 3:29 Post #454 |
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Hello, Any input on this article would be appreciated. Is there any degree of seriousness to the article? http://www.alliraqnews.com/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=32157:meetings-between-ina-kurdish-negotiating-delegation-to-continue-says-haji-&catid=35:political&Itemid=2 |
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| Xoybun | Apr 16 13, 3:52 Post #455 |
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Second paragraph is a big lie. First one is true to a degree. |
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| Qandil | Apr 18 13, 3:57 Post #456 |
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33 international companies are active in Kurdistan Region’s energy field In a conference held yesterday in South Kurdistan Region it was announced that 33 international companies are active in the energy field of the region, Xendan said. Addressing the conference, Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) economic council chief Osman Shwani said there are 2000 foreign companies in the region and 57 deals have been signed with 33 international companies of the region’s energy fields. The production level of the region have arrived 25 billion dollars, he said. The Kurdish official added the oil reserves of the region is 45 billion dollars, predicting 2.5 to 5.7 cubic trillion of gas sources. Shwani added 400000 barrels of oil are explored in the region every day. Source: http://www.kurdpress.com/En/NSite/FullStory/News/?Id=4277#Title=%0A%09%09%09%09%09%09%09%0933 international companies are active in Kurdistan Region’s energy field%0A%09%09%09%09%09%09%09 |
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| Qandil | Apr 18 13, 4:04 Post #457 |
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South Kurdistan poised to pipe oil to world via Turkey South Kurdistan will be ready to export its crude oil directly to world markets via Turkey within months after a new pipeline is completed, a move likely to deepen a row with Baghdad over the distribution of i-rack's hydrocarbon revenues. The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) is on track to finish the pipeline in the third quarter, linking Genel Energy's Taq Taq oilfield with an existing Iraq-Turkey crude pipeline, four Turkey-based industry sources told Reuters. Turkey has given the green light to the plan, under which oil from Taq Taq will enter the Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline at Fishkhabur pumping station near the Turkish border, from where it will flow directly to Turkey's southern port of Ceyhan for shipping to international markets, the sources said. The move will help Kurdistan significantly increase its oil exports but could upset the i-racki central government, which sees independent exports from the north as illegal and says growing trade between the KRG and Turkey threatens to split i-rack. Oil is at the heart of the fight between the Arab-led central government in Baghdad and the ethnic Kurdish-run northern enclave, which dispute control over oilfields, territory and crude revenues shared between the two regions. Washington, wary of the divisions between Baghdad and the autonomous region, has urged passage of a long-delayed national oil law to resolve the standoff, which has intensified since the last U.S. troops left in December 2011. "The new pipeline will be linked to the Kirkuk-Ceyhan line, said one Ankara-based industry source familiar with the matter. "Naturally, once they can export via a pipeline and no longer have to truck their oil to the border, the volumes will rise." The new pipeline was originally designed as a gas pipeline but KRG Energy Minister Ashti Hawrami said it was to be converted to carry oil, a move which had helped Genel Energy to bring its plans of pipeline exports by 2014 forward, sources said. Genel declined to comment on the issue. Sources said the pipeline has been laid up to Dohuk and is currently 80 percent complete. It will be able to carry up to 300,000 barrels per day (bpd) and is being built by a Turkish contractor. Kurdistan crude used to be moved to world markets through a Baghdad-controlled pipeline to Turkey, but exports via that channel dried up last year as a result of a row over payments. Crude pumped from the Taq Taq oilfield has instead been trucked over i-rack's northern border with Turkey, bypassing i-rack's federal pipeline system. Baghdad has said it alone has the authority to control exports and sign contracts, while the Kurds say their right to do so is enshrined in i-rack's federal constitution. But i-racki Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki softened his tone earlier this month, saying i-rack welcomed any step towards rapprochement with Turkey on the basis of shared interests, mutual respect and good-neighbourliness. PAYMENTS AN ISSUE But the hopes of reconciliation could be tested again when the new pipeline is online and the issue of how to distribute revenues between the KRG and Baghdad becomes an even more pressing issue, sources say. "I think that would require an agreement with Turkey, the KRG and Baghdad," an industry source said. "Where will the money for the oil exports be paid and who will sell the crude from Ceyhan -- all of these issues will have to be finalised with a written agreement." Turkey has said it could play an active role in settling the payment problems between the KRG and the central government in Baghdad. Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said earlier this month Turkey stood ready to support an arrangement under which 83 percent of oil export revenue went to Baghdad and the remaining 17 percent to Kurdistan. "Turkey will respect the sensitivities of both Baghdad and Hewlêr and will make sure both sides receive their shares from the oil revenues as stated in the i-racki constitution," a Turkish official said. Another Turkish official said opening an escrow account in Turkey into which i-rack's oil export revenues could be deposited would be a huge step in making sure they are fairly distributed. "Turkey could help Hewlêr and Baghdad to overcome this problem," the official said. SEEKING U.S. APPROVAL For over a year, Kurdistan has upset Baghdad by signing deals with oil majors such as Exxon Mobil and Chevron , providing lucrative production-sharing contracts and better operating conditions than in i-rack's south. Earlier this week, Kurdistan called on Washington to accept its negotiations with neighbouring Turkey as a way to get its oil to market rather than seeing it as a threat to i-rack's unity. "The KRG's relationship with America's NATO ally Turkey over energy should not be a concern to our U.S. partners. i-rack's unity and upholding the federal constitution are central to all discussions with Turkey," KRG's Hawrami said in a statement. He said Kurdistan would seek a dialogue with Baghdad to resolve outstanding energy issues based on the federal constitution. The KRG is entitled to make exports happen and prefers to do so with Baghdad, he said. "We need to get oil from the Kurdistan region, and more widely from KRG, to market. By 2019, over 3 million barrels per day of oil could flow through i-rack's northern energy corridor to Turkey and the international market," Hawrami said. i-rack's central government says Kurdistan is expected to provide 250,000 bpd towards i-rack's 2013 oil export target of 2.9 million bpd. In 2012, the KRG was to contribute 175,000 bpd to the federal budget, but realised an average of only 61,000 bpd. Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/17/iraq-kurdistan-oil-idUSL5N0D310920130417 Not bad, 80% completed. |
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| ALAN | Apr 18 13, 8:17 Post #458 |
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finally some good update on pipeline (independence) status ![]() thanks Dewran great article |
| 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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| ALAN | Apr 19 13, 2:04 Post #459 |
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I think we already know that now, next.. |
| 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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| Qandil | Apr 20 13, 9:43 Post #460 |
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Ankara asks Washington to keep its nose out of Turkey’s relations with South Kurdistan Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has asked Washington to keep its nose out of Ankara’s relations with the Kurdistan Region, the energy-rich autonomous enclave in KRG that the US cautions must stop signing direct oil deals with Turkey, instead of going through Baghdad, Rudaw website said. In an interview with Turkey’s conservative Yeni Safak daily that appeared last weekend, Erdogan stressed that Ankara can establish “all kinds of relations with KRG within the limit of its constitution. Our current steps are being taken within that framework,” he said. US President Barack Obama’s administration has been critical of oil deals between Turkey and the Kurdistan Region, fearing it could place i-rack’s security at risk. The US also fears that, if the Kurdistan Region becomes economically free of Baghdad, that could fuel aspirations of independence. The Reuters news agency recently reported that the Kurdistan Region intends to export crude directly to world markets via Turkey within a few months, after finishing a pipeline linking Genel Energy's Taq Taq oilfield to an existing Iraq-Turkey oil pipeline. Earlier this month, a Kurdish delegation in Washington tried to convince the Obama administration to be neutral in the oil- and gas dispute between Hewlêr and Baghdad, which says that oil deals signed by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) are illegal. US Secretary of State John Kerry has urged KRG President Massoud Barzani by phone not to conclude separate energy deals with Turkey, suggesting that “separate efforts undercut the unity of the country.” Erdogan said he had informed both Obama and Kerry that, “We have mutual interests in i-rack, just as they do.” The Turkish premier added that the i-racki government was not providing gas or diesel oil, which are obtained after crude oil is refined, to the Kurdish administration. “Consequently, they turned to us and asked for gas and diesel oil in exchange for crude oil, and we said that we were in favor of such a deal,” Erdogan told the daily. Erdogan called on i-racki Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who is locked in disputes with i-rack’s Kurds, the large minority Sunnis and certain Shiite groups, to fix those relations. He said Turkey could not “damage” ties with political groups that oppose the government. “We have certain relations with all of them. Maliki should, before all else, normalize his relations with all sections, including those we mentioned,” Erdogan advised. Source: http://kurdpress.com/En/NSite/FullStory/News/?Id=4304#Title=%0A%09%09%09%09%09%09%09%09Ankara asks Washington to keep its nose out of Turkey’s relations with South Kurdistan%0A%09%09%09%09%09%09%09 |
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| ALAN | Apr 20 13, 11:48 Post #461 |
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good stuff, mutual interest is the way to go about. turkey does not give a rats ass about I-rack bcos they don't border one other Kurdistan on the other hand does and has huge oil and gas reserve that not just turkey but the while world needs and will buy as well. so kurdistan oil is now sold directly to EU, and 80% pipeline completion aye independence is around the corner my dear countrymen we shall put an end to been forced I-racki on paper once and for all
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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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| purearch72 | Apr 21 13, 3:18 Post #462 |
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This is why USA's allies and enemies hate them ( middle eastern policy) |
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| Kurdistano | Apr 21 13, 1:06 Post #463 |
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Some people are so easy to fool. To be honest I see all of this just as show. If the US really didn't wanted Turkey to have closer economic relationship to KRG, do you Guys believe they would have no options to force it on them. What I believe is this is show in which the US are the directors. What could be more in US interest than seeing their ally coming closer to KRG? |
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| ALAN | Apr 21 13, 4:54 Post #464 |
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erdogan said US has interests with Baghdad we have interest with Hewlêr sounds fair enuff to me. Kurdistan has already sold oil to EU worth $33 million last few weeks via trucks, with pipeline 80% complete what is there to be fooled about? US maybe a powerful state but it def does not have greater say over EU and turkey will do all it can to please EU thus US role is undermined here. their threats at turkey-KRG relations has left minimum impact business is ongoing as usual. the peace process has a lot to do with SK oil and gas reserves too. |
| 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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| Mr Hauser | Apr 22 13, 12:07 Post #465 |
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USA says to Turkey stop dealing with Iran, when it comes to gas and oil imports. Can they also stop Turkey's advance with their plans with KRG at the same time? I doubt it. Plus USA-Russian relations are cold for the time being. So I think USA is pushing Turkey forward with their deals with KRG. At the same time they have to put on the game-face for Bagdad, since their oil companies have interest at both sides. |
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| FeyliKurd | Apr 22 13, 3:36 Post #466 |
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Peace, harmony and oil Kurdistan independent oil wealth scares i-rack’s two biggest allies, Iran and United States BIBLE scholars say the Garden of Eden was in southern i-rack, perhaps where the rivers Tigris and Euphrates meet. But when Iraqis think of earthly paradise they tend to look north, towards Kurdistan. It is easy to see why. Over Nowruz, the spring holiday celebrated last month, picnickers flocked to the autonomous region’s flower-speckled meadows and valleys carved by streams flowing down from snow-capped mountains. Nature is not South Kurdistan’s only draw. The relative order, security and wealth enjoyed by the 5m residents of i-rack’s three Kurdish provinces are the envy of the remaining 25m who live in the battered bulk of i-rack, and of others too. Since 2011 some 130,000 Syrian refugees, nearly all of them ethnic Kurds, have been welcomed in as brothers; the UN says that number could reach 350,000 by the year’s end. From the east come Iranian Kurds eager to work on the building sites that bristle across a territory the size of Switzerland. From the north come plane-loads of Turkish businessmen seeking profit from a land so rich in oil that its sweet, cloying smell hangs everywhere. i-rack is now Turkey’s second export market after Germany, with 70% of that trade directed to the Kurdish part; 4,000 trucks cross the border daily. In this section It was not always like this. Surveying a dusty vista of tents at Domiz, a camp housing more than 50,000 destitute Syrians outside the booming city of Dohuk, an i-racki Kurd shrugs and says, “Twenty years ago this was us.” He is referring to the aftermath of the Anfal, a campaign in the late 1980s by i-rack’s then-leader Saddam Hussein to crush a Kurdish uprising. It left at least 100,000 dead, destroyed 4,000 villages and created 1m refugees. The imposition of a UN haven allowed Kurdish fighters, the peshmerga, to claw back control in 1991, but the landlocked autonomous region remained surrounded by suspicious powers. Iran, Syria and Turkey all feared that Kurdish nationalism would infect their own minorities. There was trouble within, too. Politics amplified a linguistic divide between South Kurdistan’s east and west, sparking a fratricidal war from 1994 to 1997. Tensions from that time linger, along with complaints of greed and nepotism in the two ruling parties that dominate the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). i-racki Kurds also yearn to see their de facto independence formalised. To Kurdish eyes this would mean keeping control of land that technically lies outside the three provinces recognised throughout i-rack as Kurdish, and in particular the multi-ethnic but historically Kurdish-tinted city of Kirkuk. Yet most Kurds accept that patience has paid off, so far. i-rack’s American protectors have kept other foreign powers at bay. The KRG receives 17% of the i-racki federal budget, now a hefty sum thanks to i-rack’s growing oil exports (though the Kurds’ share comes after a 30% deduction for “sovereign” i-racki expenses). Since the American-led invasion in 2003 i-racki Kurds have rebuilt villages, raised GDP per person tenfold, maintained law and order and turned the peshmerga into a formidable army. Daily blackouts may plague Baghdad, but the KRG exports surplus power to adjacent i-racki towns. Divided at home, the Kurds have united to deal successfully with the federal government, securing good terms in the 2005 constitution and high office in the capital. Oily borders Kurdish officials will not speak of independence yet. But several factors point towards a reckoning. One of these is the dismal state of the rest of i-rack. Battered by al-Qaeda bombings and worried by the likely fall of Syria’s pro-Shia government, a growing number of i-racki Shias whisper that they should let the Kurds go, better to control what remains. Meanwhile Nuri al-Maliki, i-rack’s increasingly dictatorial prime minister, has grown more confrontational towards the Kurds. In December he sent troops to Kirkuk, prompting the KRG to mobilise the peshmerga. In March, over Kurdish objections, the federal parliament passed a $118-billion budget that allotted just $650m to pay what the KRG claims is a $3.5 billion debt it owes foreign oil companies. The angry Kurds withdrew their federal ministers and MPs. They now have no official representation in Baghdad; Jalal Talabani, Kurdish president, whose easy-going charm has often soothed troubles, has been ill in Germany since December. Whatever the current desires of politicians, oil finds may redraw i-rack’s borders. The Kurds say i-rack’s constitution frees autonomous regions to develop new fields, and have attracted big foreign firms with production-sharing deals that let them book reserves as assets. Baghdad says these are illegal; oil is the property of the people and all revenues must go to the central state. It is annoyed, too, that some of the 50-odd deals signed by the KRG fall in disputed territory. So long as most of i-rack’s oil output came from the south, and so long as it controlled export pipelines, Baghdad held the upper hand. But Kurdistan turns out to have a lot of oil. Proven reserves are now put at 45 billion barrels, a third or less of i-rack’s total, but still nearly double America’s. Kurdish production capacity is rising fast. It should reach 1m barrels a day by 2015 and possibly 2m by 2020, says an executive at Genel, a British-Turkish firm that is Kurdistan’s biggest operator. Squabbles with Baghdad have led to repeated shutdowns of the main pipeline to Turkey, but growing volumes go by tanker truck, solidifying a budding Kurdish-Turkish alliance that would have shocked both peoples only a few years ago. The KRG expects a pipeline to Turkey to be complete by September. Turkey, meanwhile, is keen to diversify away from reliance on Iran and Russia. It helps, too, that many of Turkey’s energy firms are politically close to the ruling Justice and Development (AK) party, which has, not coincidentally, lately made headway in securing peace with Turkey’s own Kurds. Officials in Ankara, the Turkish capital, hint that a deal is in the works, covering exploration, production and transport of both oil and natural gas. This prospect alarms the government in Baghdad, and not only because Mr Maliki tends to see Turkey through sectarian lenses as a meddling Sunni behemoth. If Kurdistan secures independent oil wealth, other parts of i-rack could follow. This is a fear shared, oddly enough, by i-rack’s two biggest allies, Iran and the United States. The Americans have repeatedly moved to curb Kurdish ambitions while encouraging Baghdad to accommodate them. But the prize for both Kurds and Turks is starting to look too big for i-rack’s future to be settled with yet fuzzier compromises. Source: The Economist |
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| davidh | Apr 23 13, 12:09 Post #467 |
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Is this September completion date for the pipeline a delay (in the Economist article above) in the one that was scheduled for June or a new pipeline? |
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| Halo | Apr 23 13, 1:24 Post #468 |
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Genel Energy targeting 140,000bopd in S.Kurdistan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqGIovesWBs |
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| FeyliKurd | Apr 24 13, 3:57 Post #469 |
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High quality oil in KRG holds ‘Turkish interest’![]() Turkey cannot remain indifferent to the oil and natural gas resources in KRG, an executive of Genel Energy has said, as Genel Energy and Petoil have discovered quite high quality oil in the Chia Surkh site. “We have got to know the region’s geological structure very well. The reserves are good. And there could be even more reserves far beyond those announced until now, both oil and natural gas,” Genel Energy’s Head of Government and Public Affairs Pars Kutay said. According to Kutay, these reserves are quite above the levels which Turkey needs. “We believe that for an energy hungry country which has limited energy resources, like Turkey, it does not seem possible to be indifferent to such huge sources just 150-200 km away from its borders” Kutay added. The Chia Surkh site was discovered in 1902 but it was later closed because of the lack of technologies to drill deeper. The site came to be known as the first site to be drilled in the Mesopotamian region, even before the Kirkuk site. “We made our first drilling in Chia Surkh. We plan four more. During the first drilling, 12,000 barrels a day with quite high flowing pressure make us very happy as well as markets” Kutay said. From the first drillings, the two firms reached high quality and light oil. “It is of as high quality as olive oil,” Kutay added. Genel Energy now operates in seven sites in the Kurdish Regional Government territory, including Chia Surkh, Dohuk, Ber Bahr, Miran, Bina Bawi, Taq Taq and Kewa Chirmila. ‘Consolidations’ to take place in KRG Adding that they planned to carry out four more drillings in Chia Surkh to develop the site, Kutay said they planned to start production by the first half of 2014. “According to the data from the first well, we believe the site has approximately 300 million barrels in reserves. We believe that the site has reserves very close to the Taq Taq reserves both in quality and quantity” Kutay said. Kutay emphasized that Turkey should develop the required policies about how it could use the mentioned resources. “Big Oil is now in the region and now is the time to see what these big companies do. There are also small companies in the region. Big companies could acquire them,” Kutay said. According to Kutay, there could be a series of consolidations in the region over the next five years. In response to a question about whether Genel Energy would be acquired or if it would acquire, Kutay said, “There is nothing about us. We have been the biggest in the region… Anything is possible. It is business in the end.” Source: Hürriyet Daily News Edited by FeyliKurd, Apr 24 13, 10:56.
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| Qandil | Apr 24 13, 9:15 Post #470 |
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Kurdish-Turkish gas pipeline will convert to oil pipeline Turkish energy company Genel Energy said it expects to convert a natural gas pipeline in KRG to an oil pipeline by the end of the year. Genel said exports of oil by truck over the Turkish border began in January. It said it expects exports to reach as much as 20,000 barrels of oil per day this year. Genel Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward said the company started the year strong with "encouraging results" from oil fields in the Kurdistan region. "As political momentum continues to build and the construction of independent regional infrastructure moves forward rapidly, it is evident that 2013 is set to be a highly significant year for both Genel and the Kurdistan Region's oil and gas industry," he said in a statement. Genel said it's made significant progress on getting a pipeline to reach the Turkish border. Conversion of a pipeline in the Kurdish region from natural gas to oil could be finished as early as the fourth quarter of this year. Political disputes between the semi autonomous Kurdish government and the central i-racki government over oil laws are seen as impediments toIraq's oil potential. Export restrictions had been in place as a sign of growing frustration with the central i-racki government over oil laws in the country. Source: http://peyamner.com/English/PNAnews.aspx?ID=308959 |
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| ALAN | Apr 25 13, 1:10 Post #471 |
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I am pretty positive by Nov Kurdistan will be expiring oil via its own pipelines
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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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| FeyliKurd | Apr 26 13, 4:15 Post #472 |
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Baghdad is still nagging about the oil exports from Kurdistan http://shafaaq.com/en/business/5909-baghdad-accuses-kurdistan-of-smuggling-oil-.html |
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| ALAN | Apr 27 13, 11:54 Post #473 |
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Minister Hawrami at Baker Institute in Houston: US can help Baghdad and Kurds make fair energy deal 27/04/2013 : 15:16:45 Houston, Texas, USA (KRG.org) – The Kurdistan Regional Government’s Minister for Natural Resources last week at the Baker Institute in Houston said that the US administration can help Baghdad and the Kurds to resolve their disagreements on oil and gas. Dr Ashti Hawrami said, “We believe that Washington can help us through a deal on energy in accordance with the Constitution to advance stability and economic wellbeing in the wider region.” Minister Hawrami went to Houston shortly after visiting Washington DC as part of a KRG ministerial delegation that met US government officials, business leaders and think tanks. In an address to the prominent think-tank at Rice University, Dr Hawrami said he had spent a fruitful week in Washington DC as part of a delegation from the KRG, identifying “many areas of common interest and ways in which the KRG can play a moderating role to shape the future of my country, and positively influence the delicate geopolitical developments around us.” Dr Hawrami emphasised the positive effects of the KRG’s growing energy relationship with Turkey. “Iraq’s unity and upholding the federal Constitution are central to all discussions with Turkey, which will be a win-win for all concerned. Economic growth undermines geopolitical extremism and conflicts.” The key to lasting stability and unity in Iraq is to implement the power and wealth sharing provisions in Iraq’s Constitution, he said. In stark contrast to Iraq’s long history of neglecting resources in the South Kurdistan and using oil wealth to fund regional wars, since 2005 the KRG has attracted some 50 international oil exploration and production companies from 23 countries. Collectively they have invested close to $20 billion US dollars searching for oil and gas in Kurdistan. He said the benefits of the KRG’s success in fostering a modern, progressive oil and gas industry would be shared by all. “The KRG seeks constructive dialogue with Baghdad to resolve all outstanding oil and gas issues based on the federal Constitution as the only viable foundation for unity,” said Dr Hawrami. The talk at the Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University was organized by the Center for Energy studies. In Houston, Minister Hawrami was also invited to address the biannual Chevron Reservoir Management Forum and visited Chevron’s technology centre, where he was briefed on the latest technological advances in the oil and gas industry. |
| 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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| ALAN | Apr 28 13, 10:24 Post #474 |
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Ashti Hawrami oposiyon ba xo frosh la qallam ada! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHTWTLlVCjk |
| 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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| ALAN | Apr 29 13, 11:00 Post #475 |
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Derbarey kemî sûtemeny le Başûr دەربارەی کەمی سوتەمەنی لە باشور http://www.nrttv.com/video-dreje.aspx?jimare=715 http://www.knnc.net/Detail-306-4-True all i have to say it is a real shame for SK to have shortage of fuel :smackhead so i love you Barez Ashti Hawrami but please before you sell our oil/fuel to the intl market and iracki cities you must 1st provide more than required for SK. |
| 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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