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| ALAN | Jun 10 14, 12:05 Post #1451 |
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Yeah and it will continue for the next 200 years
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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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| LelleS | Jun 10 14, 6:41 Post #1452 |
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That will make a lot of "second" tanker
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| ALAN | Jun 10 14, 10:40 Post #1453 |
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Second tanker of Kurdish oil leaves Turkey despite Baghdad protest A second shipment of South Kurdish crude has sailed from the Turkish port of Ceyhan, industry and government sources said, increasing the stakes in a battle with Baghdad over control of oil sales from the autonomous region. The United Emblem suezmax tanker, carrying 1 million barrels of crude, sailed from the harbor on Turkey's Mediterranean coast on Monday, Reuters AIS Live ship tracking showed. The shipment is the second to leave Ceyhan in three weeks after arriving by pipeline. At least 2 million barrels of Kurdish crude are now at sea, despite protests from Baghdad that only the central government has the right to sell Iraqi oil. The Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) has said the oil shipments are designed to show Baghdad it will exercise control over its own oil sales, but so far it has failed to find a buyer for its first tanker shipment, which left Ceyhan over two weeks ago. Neither Kurdistan's Ministry of Natural Resources nor a spokesman for the regional government was immediately available to comment. Oil ministry officials in Baghdad were also not immediately available. The hunt for buyers Last week the first tanker, the United Leadership, sailed away from Morocco after the North African country declined to let the vessel unload its 1-million-barrel crude cargo at the Mohammeddia refinery. Italy has also warned oil traders they face potential legal action if they buy the Kurdish crude, after discussions with the Iraq central government at its embassy in Baghdad. The regional government originally said the oil would be sold to German or Italian refiners, but so far the United Leadership has not sailed towards those destinations. On Monday, it remained about 30 miles (48 km) off the Moroccan coast. The United Leadership and the United Emblem are listed in tanker tracking as "For Orders", an industry term indicating that a final buyer of the crude has not yet been arranged. Until last month, Kurdish oil exports were constrained to a small volume sent by truck to two Turkish ports on the Mediterranean. Iraq's state marketer made threats of legal action but did not follow through. But the start of deliveries on a new Kurdish pipeline that currently pumps around 100,000 barrels per day to Ceyhan means significantly higher revenues for the region. Iraq and Kurdistan have been trying to reach a political agreement over oil sales, but five months after the pipeline started up there had still been no final decision, prompting the regional government to go it alone. Kurdish crude stored at Ceyhan had reached 2.8 million barrels at the end of last week, Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said on Friday. 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 | Jun 10 14, 10:42 Post #1454 |
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Canadian Company starts drilling for oil in Kurdistan Confederation [23:12] 14/Jun/09 PNA - Canadian explorer Oryx Petroleum has kicked off drilling at an appraisal well in the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). The company has spudded the Banan-2 probe on the Hewlêr licence with the Sakson Hilong 10 rig. The well is 5 kilometres north-west of the Banan-1 discovery well and is targeting oil potential in Cretaceous, Jurassic and Triassic formations. The well is planned to be drilled to 3800 metres, with drilling and testing expected to be completed in the fourth quarter. Chief operating officer Henry Legarre, Oryx Petroleum's Chief Operating Officer commented: "This is one of the most important wells we will drill in 2014 as it allows us to assess the multi-hundred million barrel potential up-dip of the Banan-1 exploration well that was successfully tested earlier this year. “The drilling of Banan-2 and the acquisition of 3D seismic in the next few months should provide us with a better understanding of the full potential of the Banan discovery." Oryx operates the Hewlêr licence area near KRG’s capital of Erbil that contains Demir Dagh on a 65% stake with Korea National Oil Corporation and the KRG as interest partners. http://www.peyamner.com/English/PNAnews.aspx?ID=339948 |
| 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 | Jun 11 14, 5:22 Post #1455 |
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Exxon Mobil supports Kurdistan oil exports http://www.peyamner.com/PNAnews.aspx?ID=340026 |
| 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 | Jun 11 14, 7:44 Post #1456 |
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Austria has bought some of the first Kurdish shipment http://rudaw.net/sorani/business/11062014 |
| 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 | Jun 11 14, 7:45 Post #1457 |
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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 | Jun 12 14, 12:23 Post #1458 |
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After take of of Mosul by ISIS, iraq says we are ready to reach agreement with Erbil about oil dispute http://xendan.org/dreja.aspx?=hewal&jmara=95225&Jor=1 till you are been shagged you dont want to make agreements? pathetic, we need no agreement, go deal with your issues yourself. |
| 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 SUN child | Jun 12 14, 12:48 Post #1459 |
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F*ck Maliki and f*ck 'Iraq'. We, Kurds and Kurdistan have everything what we want. We have secured all our areas outside KRG. We don’t have to help Shia Arabs (Iran) ever again! We have Kirkuk and other regions back, so once again: F*CK iraqis! |
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| ALAN | Jun 12 14, 1:17 Post #1460 |
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Here is an english article on the subject above Chances of reaching an agreement between Baghdad and Kurdistan increased due to Mosul. http://www.ekurd.net/mismas/articles/misc2014/6/govt2304.htm |
| 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 | Jun 12 14, 2:22 Post #1461 |
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iraqi oil minister: "SK no longer eligible to receive the 17%" http://www.lvinpress.com/dreja.aspx?=hewal&jmare=5220&Jor=2#.U5hunyGHq5E.facebook Lol, KRG finance minister Rashid Tahir already said that "we will take 100% of our oil exports, baghdad will get nothing from us since they have cut our 17% budget share". so this means KRG will get all of its export money rather than just taking 17% and sending the rest to baghdad as some reports were saying. |
| 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 | Jun 12 14, 3:38 Post #1462 |
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And found the article on the above post KRG will not send oil revenue to Baghdad 11.06.2014 Shwan Barzinji An official in Finance Ministry revealed that Kurdistan’s oil revenue will not be going to Baghdad and that the oil revenue will instead return to Kurdistan from Turkey. The Deputy of Finance Ministry of Kurdistan Confederation Rashid Tahir exclusively spoke to BasNews about the Kurdish crude revenues and he said that they have yet to reach the Kurdistan Confederation . The revenue will be transferred from Europe to Halk Bank in Turkey then it will be sent to central bank of Kurdistan Confederation . Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) had pointed out that the Kurdistan Confederation would breakeven with the federal budget and the rest would go to Baghdad. However, Tahir said: “the whole revenue will come to Kurdistan Confederation and no money will be sent to Baghdad because they have cut Kurdistan’s budget. Therefore, there is no reason to give them part of the revenue.” The Deputy of Natural Resources Committee in Kurdistan Parliament Dilshad Sha’ban told BasNews that a law passed in 2013 states that if Erbil-Baghdad disputes take longer than 90 days to solve they the KRG would be free to any method to obtain its financial rights. “If Baghdad does not send 17% of Kurdistan Confederation ’s full budget, they will not get a penny from us, only 5% will go to Kuwait as compensation,” said Sha’ban. He noted that Kurdish oil revenue is a guarantee not a problem and that only the Kurdistan Confederation has the right to deal with this account. Tahir pointed out that the revenue will only be sent to Kurdistan from Turkey through three signatures: Deputy PM, The Minister of Finance and the Minister of Natural Resources In the last week, Assistant Advisor of Turkish Energy Minister Safa Sadiq Aytekin told CNBC TV channel that 1,048,000 Kurdish oil barrels have been exported to the world market through Cyhan port in Turkey that the price of each oil barrel was US $ 110 that the total revenue will be $115 million and soon it will be sent to a special account in Halk Bank. He also mentioned that Turkey has been fair in terms of the Kurdish oil exportation in a way that the Iraqi oil marketing has been informed about all the details of Kurdish oil exportation process and revenue. Tahir said that they had no other option: “we were obligated to sell our oil because since March 2014 Baghdad has cut the budget of Kurdistan Confederation and KRG was obliged to find a solution. We were disappointed by the negotiations with Baghdad.” About the recent meeting between KRG and Kurdistan Parliament, Rashid noted: “the meeting was very successful. The policy of oil was shown to the parliament especially the fairness of selling Kurdish oil and its revenue and all contracts were shown and Kurdish PM Nechirvan Barzani told them they can investigate the contracts in case they don’t believe in it. http://www.basnews.com/en/News/Details/KRG-will-not-send-oil-revenue-to-Baghdad/22953 |
| 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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| davidh | Jun 12 14, 3:39 Post #1463 |
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Exclusive - Kurdish oil finds new buyers in Europe despite Baghdad threats Wed, Jun 11 16:05 PM BST By Julia Payne LONDON (Reuters) - Russian oil firm Rosneft bought a cargo of Kurdish oil for a German refinery it co-owns with oil major BP, quietly circumventing Baghdad's ban on independent oil sales by its autonomous region, according to trading sources. While Iraq and Kurdistan will have to work together to combat an Islamist militant group that this week seized Iraq's second city Mosul, near the Kurdish border, they have been locked in a bitter oil dispute for the past two years, with Baghdad saying only its state company is authorised to sell crude. The militants from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), an offshoot of al Qaeda, were closing in on Iraq's largest oil refiner on Wednesday. Baghdad has already blacklisted Austrian firm OMV, so far the only regular buyer of Kurdish crude in Europe. It has threatened measures including revising contracts to develop large Iraqi oil fields as a deterrent to others. Rosneft and BP buy crude oil via separate trading divisions for their German refining venture, Ruhr Oel, although BP is the main operator of the venture. Both companies declined to comment on the Kurdish crude purchase. Rosneft, controlled by the Russian government, has no major projects in Iraq, while BP is among the biggest investors and is leading the project to develop the huge Rumaila field. Outside Europe, Israel and the United States have also been frequent lifters of Kurdish oil. The dispute escalated at the end of May when Kurdistan started selling oil out of its newly built pipeline to Turkey. Kurdish oil was previously trucked to two Turkish ports, but the pipeline would increase exports sharply. Baghdad has so far successfully fought off the first attempt to sell pipeline crude, with a loaded tanker, the United Leadership, being forced twice to change course abruptly without being able to discharge its cargo. But market sources told Reuters that another tanker with Kurdish oil had quietly been sold into Europe, ending up with Ruhr Oel. The Minerva Antonia cargo loaded around 41,000 tonnes of Kurdish light grade Taq Taq, which had been trucked from Kurdistan to the Turkish port of Mersin on the Mediterranean. The cargo - around $30 million (17.8 million pounds) worth of oil - then sailed to the Italian port of Trieste on May 8, according to Reuters AIS Live ship tracking and two shipping sources. The oil was then pumped through the Trans-Alpine Pipeline for Ruhr Oel's refining facilities into Germany, several industry sources with direct knowledge of the matter said. Because BP is the operator of the refining venture, its German arm, Deutsche BP, featured as the technical receiver of the oil, according to two shipping lists from local agents seen by Reuters and one source with direct knowledge of the matter. Rosneft, which bought the crude, according to market sources, has no obligation to coordinate crude purchases with BP, though the development could still put the British major in an uncomfortable position. (Additional reporting by Dmitry Zhdannikov; Editing by Will Waterman) |
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| ALAN | Jun 12 14, 9:50 Post #1464 |
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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 | Jun 12 14, 1:51 Post #1465 |
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Second Kurdish oil tanker heads to Malta Malta has been announced as the destination for the second Kurdish oil ship loaded with 1 million barrels of crude. Despite ambiguity in the destination of the first Kurdish oil tanker left Ceyhan port last week, Malta has been announced as the destination of the United Emblem, the ship that takes the second Kurdish oil tanker to world markets. United Emblem is in south of Greece with the country’s flag waving over and is going towards Malta. Loaded with 1 million barrels of Kurdish oil the first ship headed towards US bay but changed course and went to Muhamadiya port in Morocco. Rabat officials ordered the ship to leave the port in fear of legal actions by Baghdad which is against the Kurdistan Confederation ’s oil export and called it “smuggling.” The ship is reported to be in international waters between Rabat and Muhamadiya port. Iraq has stated will follow the destination of the Kurdish oil and will take legal actions against them. Despite reports and Baghdad threats Kurdish officials have stated the first oil tanker has been sold. http://kurdpress.com/En/NSite/FullStory/News/?Id=7559#Title=%0A |
| 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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| LelleS | Jun 13 14, 5:51 Post #1466 |
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Kirkuk for KRG? Dno. Krg ber FN anerkjenne Kirkuk som Kurdisk område.... Iraqi Parliament Deputy Speaker Aref Tayfur called Tuesday for the return of Kirkuk to "mother's lap of Kurdistan" http://www.ekurd.net/mismas/articles/misc2014/5/kirkuk815.htm |
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| Deleted User | Jun 14 14, 3:56 Post #1467 |
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For those of you who don't speak Norwegian; KRG has asked UN to recognize Kerkûk as Kurdish. Hvor fant du det, LelleS? Er det fra DNOs hjemmesider? |
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| Halo | Jun 14 14, 7:14 Post #1468 |
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Rudaw English @RudawEnglish The third and fourth tanker of Kurdish oil leaves for #India and #Austria. #TwitterKurds |
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| ALAN | Jun 14 14, 8:13 Post #1469 |
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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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| LelleS | Jun 17 14, 6:54 Post #1470 |
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What are the chances for KRG to start export oil from Kirkuk oilfield? and will KRG need any % from Bagdad then? |
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| ALAN | Jun 17 14, 10:31 Post #1471 |
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Not via Kirkuk-Ceyhan, Kirkuk fields will be connected to KRG-Ceyhan line, bcos the Iraq like goes throu ISIS controlled areas. |
| 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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| AlanJunior | Jun 18 14, 2:03 Post #1472 |
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At the current rate, with Kirkuk Kurdistan can export 1 million barrels a day! at current price that translates into $37 billion a year or around $113 million a day. Even if $5 billion goes into expenses (exaggerated estimation by me), that's still $32 billion a year just from oil at current exports. |
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| kurdishpatriot | Jun 18 14, 2:31 Post #1473 |
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So what will the gdp per capita be if we could export 2 million barrels? |
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#PROMOTEWOMENRIGHTS "shengal bo ezdi ya", Ezidi namerin, HATA ARAB NAMAYEN NEK SHENGAL! "A society can never be free without women's liberation" - Abdullah Ocalan | |
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| ALAN | Jun 18 14, 3:20 Post #1474 |
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Minister: More Tankers Loading Kurdish Oil; Crude Already Sold By Harvey Morris 2 hours ago London – Two more tankers of Kurdish oil will be loaded this week at the Turkish port of Ceyhan and the consignments have already been sold, Ashti Hawrami, the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG’s) natural resources minister, said on Tuesday. Hawrami, addressing the Iraq Petroleum Conference in London, also confirmed that the first two tanker loads of oil shipped via Kurdistan’s new pipeline to Turkey over the past month had also found buyers. The tankers had been stuck in the Mediterranean, unable to offload, because of pressure from Baghdad and Washington on potential buyers. Given the latest turmoil in Iraq, that pressure may now have eased. However, there was no indication at the London conference that the crisis was pushing Erbil and Baghdad to an early compromise in their long-running dispute on oil exports. Hawrami declared: “We are not going back to where Baghdad can use its red card anytime it wants to.” He sat alongside Thamir Ghadhban, chief advisor to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who maintained the government’s line that all oil should be exported through the federal system as he insisted was stipulated by Iraq’s constitution. Putting the KRG case, Hawrami said recent events had shown centralization of the Iraqi state did not work. “The new Iraq will have to have a system of power-sharing and revenue sharing,” he said. Baghdad was violating the constitution, which gave the KRG control over its own oil resources. The central government was seeking to impose energy laws left over from the Saddam Hussein era, Hawrami charged. “From our point of view, Saddam’s laws are null and void,” he added. “Basically, anything said in Baghdad is just talk.” He said the KRG’s revenue share had steadily dropped from 17 per cent of the national budget to 10 per cent and then 0 per cent this year. Current proposals by mediators seeking to resolve the dispute between the two sides would still leave the KRG with only 7.5 per cent of national revenues. “People don’t add up the numbers,” he said. “Even well-wishers have failed to do their sums,” he added, without naming them. The US is the most prominent outsider to have attempted to reconcile the two sides. Hawrami said Kurdistan was also being short-changed in terms of domestic energy consumption, of which it used to receive a 10 per cent share, now down to 3 percent. The region had built two refineries to compensate. “The KRG will catch up with this entitlement, however loud Baghdad may shout,” he said. The minister said current Kurdish exports were at 125,000 barrels per day (bpd), a figure that would double by July and reach 400,000 bpd by the end of the year. He said the export policy would remain in place “until there’s agreement on 17 per cent or we get our own 17 per cent.” Baghdad’s Ghadhban retorted that the Kurdish minister was using numbers to blind his audience, who included US and British officials and oil company executives. “By bringing so many figures and numbers, he managed to confuse the audience as well as myself,” he said. But he agreed with Hawrami that Baghdad and Erbil should continue to work to find a solution. That was a view shared by Amos J. Hochstein, the US State Department’s deputy assistant secretary for energy, who called for compromise at a time when Iraq was once again at a crossroads. “The Iraqi people need their leaders to come together and seek solutions to long-standing grievances,” the US official said. Sir Jeremy Greenstock, a retired British diplomat who chaired Tuesday’s ministerial session of the London conference, said the present crisis in Iraq raised doubts about the capacity of the country to hold together as a state. “The one bright spot in this picture,” he said, “is that the oil-bearing regions in the south and far north are not in the areas affected.” The KRG’s Hawrami reiterated that the autonomous government continued to reach out to Baghdad in the hope of building a new, united and prosperous country. But he warned: “The terrorists will come back if we don’t put our house in order.” http://rudaw.net/english/kurdistan/170620144 |
| 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 | Jun 18 14, 3:38 Post #1475 |
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Ashti Hawrami from London: "we are now connecting Kerkûk oil fields to KRG pipelines as i speak" Kerkûk - Ceyhan pipeline will be abandoned. http://rudaw.net/sorani/business/170620143 http://sbeiy.com/Detail.aspx?id=32581&LinkID=9 No wonder the whole world supports Kurdistan freeing Kerkûk... |
| 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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