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| Zagros | Dec 29 13, 3:12 Post #1026 |
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Baghdad asks Kurdistan for information on “106 million oil barrels” it says have gone missing December 28, 2013 BAGHDAD,— South Kurdistan reports of their oil output and exports fail to account for 106 million barrels of oil, the Ministry of Finance says. The ministry’s audit department has officially asked Kurdistan Regional Government KRG to account for the massive volume of oil it says it has gone missing and which at current prices is worth more than $10 billion. “We could not trace 106 million barrels of oil produced by the Kurdistan region. They have probably been smuggled abroad,” the department said in a statement. The Kurds say they have the capacity to produce 400,000 barrels of oil per day at a time they need about 100,000 barrels a day for domestic consumption. Hathem al-Jibouri, an MP from Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Malik’s parliamentary bloc, said he attended several meetings arranged by the Finance Ministry attended by officials from the Kurdistan region. “We have repeatedly told the Kurds that they still need to account for 106 million barrels of oil,” he said. “The volume must have been smuggled abroad.” The Kurds, he said, want to refer the matter to an international audit firm to examine their accounts of oil output in their region. However, Jibouri said, the government should not allow “international firms meddle in local affairs because Iraq has its own audit department,www.Ekurd.net which is considered one of the best in the region.” The row has delayed budget approval by the parliament with deputies demanding a big slash in the share of oil royalties earmarked for South Kurdistan. Kurdistan receives 17% of the hard cash the country ears from oil exports. Kurdistan Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani said upon his return from the Iraqi capital on Wednesday. "Baghdad is leaning toward resolving the thorny energy and budget rows with its autonomous Kurds" Nechirvan Barzani had arrived Wednesday to Baghdad for talks with the federal government on oil and the budget files, and met during the visit, both the Iraqi prime minister Nuri al-Maliki, Iraq's deputy PM for energy, Hussein Shahristani, and head of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq Ammar al-Hakim. Copyright ©, respective author or news agency, azzaman.com | Ekurd.net | Agencies http://www.ekurd.net/mismas/articles/misc2013/12/govt2244.htm |
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| Kinematik | Dec 29 13, 9:00 Post #1027 |
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Funding appears to be managed by JP Morgan. I also hope the statement: 'Revenues will later be distributed to related parties via the central budget of Iraq, statement added.' Means JPM are responsible for payment distribution under agreed arrangements and the oil company payments are kept away from the hands of the ICG........ Kurdish oil revenues to be deposited in US bank Dec 28, 2013 diplomacypost Economics, News 0 IRBIL (AA) - Revenues of Kurdish oil, which is to be exported to world markets via Turkey, will be deposited in a New York-based bank account of the Development Fund of Iraq (DFI), sources said. Leaders of Iraqi central government and the Kurdish administration, Nouri al-Maliki and Nechirvan Barzani, reached a resolution in Iraqi capital over export rows encountered between Baghdad and Irbil. The deal stipulates that oil revenues of the Kurdish-controlled regions will go to the Development Fund for Iraq (DFI) account which was created at the JPMorgan Chase of New York at the request of the United Nations. According to a statement from the office of Maliki’s deputy for energy, Hussein Shahristani, both sides agreed upon exporting Kurdish oil through State Organization for Marketing of Oil (SOMO), the company responsible for marketing Iraq’s oil. Revenues will later be distributed to related parties via the central budget of Iraq, statement added. Hasan Ozmen, MP for Diyala province, told Anadolu Agency that the revenue of oil, which is to be exported via Turkey through a newly-finished pipeline, would also go to the DFI account. Ozmen said that the account was originally established to safeguard the equal distribution of revenues. englishnews@aa.com.tr |
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| Kinematik | Dec 29 13, 8:39 Post #1028 |
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So what is happening? Do you think this will work? Have you seen Bagdads demands in the budget for KRG to get their 17%? http://www.ekurd.net/mismas/articles/misc2013/12/state7611.htm Ridiculous! Edited by Kinematik, Dec 29 13, 8:42.
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| Worldwar2boy | Dec 30 13, 5:55 Post #1029 |
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We will leave the Arab I-rackis soon, so let the dogs bark, that's what they're good at. And let them have their 17% shizz small budget, we will demand at least 10% after we separate from the shithole called Iraq for Anfal compensations. |
| biji kurd u kurdistan !! | |
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| Zagros | Dec 30 13, 9:14 Post #1030 |
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KRG oil revenues to cumulate in US bank Hewlêr - Anadolu Agency Baghdad and Hewlêr have agreed on accumulation of Kurdish oil revenues in an account, which was opened in US bank JPMorgan, despite Ankara’s insistence on depositing the money in Turkish state-run lender Halkbank, according to media reports quoting sources Revenues from Kurdish oil, which is to be exported to world markets via Turkey, will be deposited in a New York-based bank account of the Development Fund of Iraq (DFI), sources have said. Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani reached a resolution in Baghdad over their differences on oil exports on Dec. 25, Anadolu Agency reported. The deal stipulates that oil revenues from Kurdish-controlled regions will go to the DFI account which was created at JPMorgan Chase in New York in 2003 at the request of the United Nations, instead of Turkish state-owned lender Halkbank. Barzani broached the issue of depositing the oil money in a U.S. lender during a visit to Ankara at the end of November. According to a statement from the office of al-Maliki’s deputy for energy, Hussein Shahristani, both sides agreed to export Kurdish oil through the State Organization for Marketing of Oil (SOMO), the company responsible for marketing Iraq’s oil. Meanwhile, al-Maliki’s media adviser, Ali Musawi, said the two parties had reached a consensus on establishing a committee for the resolution of problems between the two governments and that the committee would convene at the end of 2014 to end the issues. The revenues will later be distributed to the relevant parties via Iraq’s central budget, the statement said. Hasan Özmen, a parliament for Diyala province, told Anadolu Agency that the revenue from the oil which is to be exported via Turkey through a newly finished pipeline would also be deposited in the DFI account. Özmen said the account was originally established to ensure the equal distribution of revenues. Turkey recently signed an agreement with the KRG for the establishment of a separate 300,000-barrel capacity pipeline. On Dec. 23, Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yıldız said test flows for northern Iraqi oil had been completed up to Ceyhan, a coastal district in the Mediterranean province of Adana, adding that the oil would begin to flow after the tests. Until recently, Baghdad had expressed its explicit opposition to the autonomous Kurdistan region’s direct oil deals with foreign companies and the export of Kurdish oil and gas to Turkey. December/30/2013 http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/krg-oil-revenues-to-cumulate-in-us-bank.aspx?pageID=238&nid=60295&NewsCatID=348 |
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| Kinematik | Dec 30 13, 9:07 Post #1031 |
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| Zagros | Jan 4 14, 6:47 Post #1032 |
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Iraq Draft Budget Littered With Mines Against Kurdistan ERBIL, South Kurdistan – The draft Iraqi budget for the next fiscal year, which has yet to be sent to parliament for approval, contains several clauses and conditions that could be disastrous for the autonomous South Kurdistan if the bill is passed in its present form, economists and officials warn. For instance, it contains many conditions that the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) must fulfill, and stipulates cuts to the 17 percent of Erbil’s share of the national budget if any of these remain unfulfilled. “The South Kurdistan will be at a disadvantage if the bill is passed in its current form,” the KRG’s deputy finance minister Rashid Tahir warned in comments to Rudaw. “There are a number of articles in the bill that would cause a big crisis in the South Kurdistan if passed,” said Ali Hama Salih, MP of the Change Movement (Gorran) in the Kurdish parliament. “For example, an article in the bill stipulates that the South Kurdistan must export 250,000 barrels of oil per day through the Iraqi pipelines, which amounts to $9.125 billion. This amount will be subtracted from the 17 percent budget of Kurdistan if the latter fails to export that volume,” he said. “This bill will cause economic and financial crisis if passed,” the MP warned. The draft budget contains no guaranteed allocation for the Kurdish Peshmarga forces, an issue that has only been mentioned once in the bill in a very elastic manner. “After reaching an agreement between the two Council of Ministers of South Kurdistan and Baghdad, the salaries and ammunition expenses for the guards of the South Kurdistan (Peshmarga), will be released in a manner that would not contradict the constitution.” the draft bill states. Salih said that another article in the bill says that the Peshmarga forces will receive their budget allocation only after Erbil and Baghdad have reached agreement on the Kurdish force, which he said was far from imminent. “Baghdad can easily use this article to pressure the South Kurdistan during political disagreements,” Salih warned. He said that revenues from customs at the border check points in the South Kurdistan have not been sorted out nor investigated since 2003, “so if it was found out that the revenues were not sent to the Iraqi National Treasury, then that amount would be subtracted from the budget of South Kurdistan.” But Tahir reassured that, “The revenues of customs have been delivered to Baghdad since 2003.” The bill stipulates payments owed by Erbil to Baghdad, but not vice versa. It allocates 1 trillion Iraqi Dinars as dues to be paid to oil companies working in the South Kurdistan, and 16 trillion ID for the oil companies in central and southern Iraq. But the South Kurdistan estimates the fees of the oil companies to be around $3.5 billion. Regarding compensation based on Article 140 for resettled Iraqis, no changes have been made and the amount remains at 172 billion ID. Cuts to the South Kurdistan’s budget are mentioned in the bill four times, in case the KRG fails to fulfill conditions of the bill. The bill was prepared by the Iraqi government and has not been sent to the parliament yet. It is expected to create many arguments. Officials from Kurdistan’s finance ministry describe the bill as laden with landmines against the Kurds. “The parliament is not the place to fight over the budget, because the majority will win the vote. The fight for the budget must commence in the Iraqi Ministry of Finance and the Council of Ministers during drafting the budget bill,” Salih explained. When finalized, the Iraqi budget for 2014 is expected to reach 174 trillion ID. http://rudaw.net/english/kurdistan/28122013 |
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| Zagros | Jan 4 14, 7:04 Post #1033 |
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Pipeline Bombing Halts Kirkuk-Ceyhan Oil Flow ERBIL, South Kurdistan—An explosion that targeted a major pipeline in Saladin province on Thursday has halted the flow of oil to the Turkish port of Ceyhan, officials said. “Oil pumping operations stopped from the Kirkuk oilfields to the Turkish port of Ceyhan after it was subjected to an act of sabotage at 6:00 pm on Thursday near the Baiji refinery,” Kirkuk Now website quoted a North Oil Company official as saying. Baiji 45 kilometers north of Tikrit has been a hotbed of Sunni insurgents in the past decade. Iraqi officials say that in 2013 the Kirkuk- Ceyhan pipeline had been attacked more than 50 times. Citing unnamed sources, Reuters reported last month that Baghdad had raised its flow of oil through the Kirkuk-Cehyan to lessen the capacity of Kurdish oil export to Turkey. Thursday’s attack came hours after Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz confirmed in a press conference the arrival of crude oil from the South Kurdistan in Turkish storage hubs. “The flow of crude oil from Iraq has begun. It is being stored. It will not be exported without the consent of the Iraqi government," said Yildiz. According to the Turkish minister, oil flows at 300-400,000 bpd, but that it would be held until Baghdad and Erbil have reached a final agreement on oil exports. Meanwhile, after a meeting between South Kurdistan Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani and his Iraqi counterpart, Nuri al-Maliki in Baghdad last month, both sides said they were optimistic about finalizing an agreement in the coming days. - See more at: http://rudaw.net/english/kurdistan/030120143#sthash.FL3jsFIl.dpuf |
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| Worldwar2boy | Jan 4 14, 8:11 Post #1034 |
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Why roll eyes? Are you sad that I talk about Arabs that way? |
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| ALAN | Jan 4 14, 8:48 Post #1035 |
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Really good news that the money wll be saved in US banks not turkish, they would have even had more hands on us, US are no better but i still would prefer US over Turkey |
| 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 | Jan 4 14, 11:52 Post #1036 |
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US banks such as JP Morgan are privately owned meaning there motives are based on profits and the US government can not interfere whereas the bank turkey wanted to put the bank I belive was state owned so they controlled what comes in and out of the bank. |
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| Kinematik | Jan 5 14, 8:47 Post #1037 |
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No i think arabs are idiots to. But its clear you have no idea what you talk about when it comes to the "shizz small budget" KRG needs to be exporting 1 million barrels to match the share they are getting from the budget. 300-400k will not be enough for KRG to be comfortable. Thats why i did the rolling eyes. |
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| ALAN | Jan 9 14, 9:00 Post #1038 |
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KRG has officially announced state oil company KOMO and will look after all oil sales and revenues The article http://rudaw.net/NewsDetails.aspx?pageid=32169
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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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| ALAN | Jan 9 14, 11:03 Post #1039 |
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South Kurdistan to sell oil via new independent pipeline to Turkey in January ERBIL-Hewlêr, South Kurdistan 'KRG',— The first crude has started to flow through South Kurdistan's new pipeline across Turkey and the first independent exports are expected to begin at the end of this month, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) said on Wednesday. The first parcel of 2 million barrels of oil will be sold via a tender, KRG's Ministry of Natural Resources said on the government's web site. It invited bidders for the January tender. The monthly export parcels will then increase to 4 million barrels and 6 million barrels in February and March respectively, it said. The monthly exports are estimated to reach 10-12 million barrels in December. Kurds and the central government in Baghdad have been at loggerheads over the share of oil revenues. Baghdad, which claims the sole authority to manage Iraqi oil, was infuriated after Erbil signed a package of contracts with Turkey for oil and gas exports as well as for the construction of new pipelines. The Baghdad government says Kurdish efforts towards oil independence could lead to the break-up of Iraq. Turkey's courtship of the KRG Kurds has also raised concern in Washington. TURKISH PROPOSAL But Turkey has repeatedly said it respects Iraq's sensitivities over territorial integrity and that increasing oil revenues will help the whole of Iraq. Ankara has been working to get Baghdad on board and proposed setting up an escrow account at a Turkish state bank for the oil revenues to be deposited. The Iraqi government has yet to agree on the Turkish proposals. KRG's new pipeline carries the Kurdish oil to Turkey's Mediterranean export hub of Ceyhan. It is initially carrying heavy oil from Tawke fields and links up with the 40-inch-wide existing Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline to be exported to world markets. "Crude oil from Taq Taq and other producing fields will soon be added to the export system, resulting in a blended medium crude oil..," the KRG statement said. Prospective buyers will be able to lift crude oil shipments in Ceyhan "under similar arrangements" as those used for Iraq's State Oil Marketing Organisation (SOMO) for oil exports from Kirkuk. Details of each parcel will be announced by the Ministry of Natural Resources and independent observers as well as representatives from SOMO will be invited to monitor the process, KRG said. Copyright ©, respective author or news agency, Reuters |
| 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 | Jan 9 14, 11:04 Post #1040 |
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SOMO is just invited as a guest it's KOMO that does everything |
| 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 | Jan 9 14, 11:10 Post #1041 |
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Illegal oil refineries on the rise in Kurdistan 07.01.2014 Mewan Dolamari BasNews (Erbil): There are 150 oil refineries throughout the South Kurdistan, yet only two of them are licensed to work legally. Officials label the remaining refineries “illegal”, damaging the environment of Kurdistan and failing to produce viable revenue or to support the needs of the people. “The Ministry of Natural Resources has not officially licensed or permitted all the refineries in Qushtapa. Perhaps the ministry of Trade & Industry has allowed them to work, so they can decide to close the refineries,” said deputy at the Natural Resource Ministry of KRG, Taha Sangari. The two officially licensed refineries are the Baziyan and Kalak Refineries. “Oil refineries have nothing to do with the Ministry of Trade & Industry. There were a few refineries in Qushtapa that we allowed to recycle used oil, but that was before - now they no longer exist or work,” said the Head of Industry Development at the Ministry of Trade & Industry, Aras Raof, to Kurdish media. Raof also stressed that there are possibly some oil refineries near to Qushtapa that have not been licensed by the Ministry of Trade & Industry. “We are not aware of any oil refineries not permitted by us. If they are not licensed by the Ministry of Oil & Natural Resources, then perhaps they are working independently,” added Raof. Khasraw Kamal, Deputy Minister at the KRG Municipality Ministry stated that the refineries in the Qushtapa area are located outside of the municipality, therefore they have nothing to do with the municipality nor are they given a land license by it. “The Ministry of Oil and Natural Resources is aware of unlicensed oil refineries, but does not close them, claiming that they are fulfilling energy needs in South Kurdistan.” said the PM in Kurdistan, Goran Azad. Azad added that these refineries are illegal and damage the environment of Kurdistan - which is directly linked to people’s health - and they are less productive, unable to fulfill the energy needs of Kurdistan. |
| 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 | Jan 11 14, 1:04 Post #1042 |
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Have iraqis heard of the Kurdish proverb!? That goes like "sir bxo u zurrna le ba" or "eat garlic and play flute" well now they have watch and learn how it's done iraqis ![]() Iraq slams South Kurdistan over independent oil sale Iraq's oil ministry sharply criticised the autonomous south South Kurdistan for its move to sell oil independently, saying it was a violation of the constitution. January 10, 2014 BAGHDAD,— Iraq's Oil Ministry expressed "deep regret and astonishment" on Friday over plans announced by the autonomous South Kurdistan to begin piping oil to Turkey without central government approval. The first crude has begun to flow and exports are expected to start at the end of this month before rising in February and March, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) said on Wednesday. The ministry in Baghdad expressed astonishment at the move and described it as a "flagrant violation of the Iraqi constitution". It also rebuked the Turkish government for allowing the Iraqi-Turkish pipeline system to be used to pump and store crude oil produced in Kurdistan without Baghdad's approval. The ministry in a statement said the planned oil exports breached a Dec. 25 agreement between the Iraqi government and the KRG. That called for experts from both sides to discuss how crude from Kurdistan could be exported under the auspices of Iraq's State Organisation for the Marketing of Oil (SOMO). Kurdistan's bid to sell oil and gas independently has infuriated officials in the Iraqi capital as Baghdad has long insisted that the central government retains sole authority over managing Iraq's energy resources. The ministry on Friday threatened legal action against any companies that trade in "smuggled" oil or gas from Kurdistan without going through SOMO. Companies that have taken the risk of exploring for oil in South Kurdistan welcomed the KRG announcement as a signal they might begin to generate export income from their investments, despite Baghdad's objections. "We've been waiting to read these words and hear these words since 2007," said Todd Kozel, chief executive of Gulf Keystone which has Kurdish government approval to exploit what it says is one of the world's largest onshore exploration fields. "It's music to any operator's ears in Kurdistan. It's the monetisation of our assets," he told Reuters on Thursday. Shares in several oil companies involved in South Kurdistan rose on Thursday, including London-listed Genel Energy, Norway's DNO, Hungary's MOL and Britain's Petroceltic and Afren. South Kurdistan has blossomed economically under self-rule as the only part of Iraq to escape the violence unleashed after the U.S. invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003. Although the early flows are predicted to be modest, its oil exports have the potential to redraw export routes across the region. Copyright ©, respective author or news agency, Reuters |
| 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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| Zagros | Jan 11 14, 3:48 Post #1043 |
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US VP Biden calls Kurdish leader Barzani to discuss oil conflict U.S. Vice President Joe Biden urged the president of the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) to work with the governments of Iraq and Turkey to resolve a conflict over the region’s oil. Biden called President Massoud Barzani on Jan. 9, the same day his Kurdish regional government announced it has unilaterally started sending crude to Turkey. Iraq’s government and Kurds in KRG are locked in a long-running dispute over oil rights. The White House said Biden encouraged Barzani to talk with Baghdad to develop a way forward. Biden has been working the phones this week as violence flares in Iraq two years after the U.S. pulled out troops. He has spoken twice with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and once with a leading Sunni lawmaker. KRG announced on Jan. 8 that the first crude has started to flow through the autonomous South South Kurdistan's new pipeline across Turkey and the first independent exports are expected to begin at the end of this month. The monthly export parcels will then increase to 4 million barrels and 6 million barrels in February and March respectively, it said. The monthly exports are estimated to reach 10-12 million barrels next December. January/10/2014 http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/us-vp-biden-calls-iraqi-kurdish-leader-barzani-to-discuss-oil-conflict.aspx?pageID=238&nID=60835&NewsCatID=348 |
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| ALAN | Jan 11 14, 4:02 Post #1044 |
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US administration can go and F*** themselves for fully backing Maliki on the oil of Kurdistan... they have lost my whole respect. the problem will only solve by Kurdistan and all that was added to iraq going its own way and let sunni and shia iraqis sort their own shizz out.... |
| 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 | Jan 11 14, 7:59 Post #1045 |
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Ministry of Natural Resources Announcement on Oil Export Sales![]() WED, 8 JAN 2014 20:23 | KRG.org Erbil, South Kurdistan - The KRG Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) gives public notice of the commencement of the sale of its first shipment of crude oil exported via South Kurdistan’s new pipeline through Turkey to the Port of Ceyhan. MNR anticipates the sale of the first parcel of two million barrels of exported crude oil to occur at the end of January 2014. Thereafter, monthly parcels will increase to 4 million barrels by the end of February and 6 million by the end of March, then steadily stepping up to 10-12 million barrels for the month of December 2014. At the beginning of this month, some initial quantities of crude oil produced from the Tawke field began flowing through Kurdistan’s new pipeline system to the Turkish port of Ceyhan, and crude oil from Taq-Taq and other producing fields will soon be added to the export system, resulting in a blended medium crude oil quality of 30 to 32 Degrees API. Prospective buyers can lift the crude oil shipments in the port of Ceyhan under similar arrangements as those used for SOMO (the State Oil Marketing Organisation) for oil export from Kirkuk. Details of each parcel will be published by MNR in due course. All tenders will be competitive and based on international pricing. In order to ensure full transparency of the sales and contracting process, independent observers will be invited to each tender, together with representatives of the oil companies that have produced the exported oil. MNR also invites representatives of SOMO to join the process as observers. At this stage, MNR is inviting reputable and financially capable companies to register with MNR their interest in participating in the January tender or any of the future tenders. All applicants should in the first instance write to the Ministry of Natural Resources with information about their company profile, track record and financial status via email KOMO@mnr.krg.org. All submissions should be addressed to: KOMO - Kurdistan Oil Marketing Organization, Ministry of Natural Resources, Council of Ministers, Kurdistan Regional Government, Erbil, South Kurdistan http://www.krg.org/a/d.aspx?s=010000&l=12&a=50388 |
| 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 | Jan 11 14, 8:03 Post #1046 |
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bji KOMO - Kurdistan Oil Marketing Organization
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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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| Worldwar2boy | Jan 11 14, 8:33 Post #1047 |
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Stupid crying iraqis, they cry for US help, uS won't do shizz major oil companies in SK are US companies this is just a show |
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| Kinematik | Jan 12 14, 10:39 Post #1048 |
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Funny joke Tweet "@patrickosgood My understanding is talks fell apart when Shahristani insisted they call it the Hewler Oil Marketing Organization or no deal" (Would have been HOMO) Haha |
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| Kinematik | Jan 13 14, 1:55 Post #1049 |
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F ing RETARDS !!! Perfect timing for declaring independence with the problems in Anbar escalaiting Iraq's Maliki warns Kurds of funding cuts if they pipe oil exports to Turkey Sun Jan 12, 2014 2:37pm GMT BAGHDAD, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki threatened on Sunday to cut central government funding for Iraq's autonomous South Kurdistan if the Kurds pursued a drive to pipe oil exports to Turkey without Baghdad's approval. "This is a constitutional violation which we will never allow, not for the (Kurdistan) region nor for the Turkish government," Maliki told Reuters in an interview. Edited by Kinematik, Jan 13 14, 1:55.
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| Deleted User | Jan 13 14, 2:44 Post #1050 |
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How much income will this pipeline generate in 2014? Will it be higher or lower than the budget we get from Iraq at the moment? |
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watch and learn how it's done iraqis 


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