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| ALAN | Jul 30 14, 4:16 Post #1626 |
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Did you guys read the article and Alanj what's with involving PUK in every single post? ![]() PUK hasn't done anything to PDK's "independence" project, bcos that matter was too voted by PUK in Kurdistan parliament, even Pres. Barzani says we will stay in Baghdad till we are ready so obviously PUK is doing what Barzani wants otherwise he would said something by now. |
| 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 | Jul 30 14, 4:17 Post #1627 |
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And we need to make sure milki is re-elected for 3rd term making ISIS more mad than they already are milki is our golden ticket for dumping Iraq. |
| 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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| deso2409 | Jul 30 14, 4:37 Post #1628 |
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Ahh these f**king Iraqi bastards... I hate these iraqis! I guess we should stick with Israel, because USA won't do any favors for us kurds, EVER (hope that I am wrong). USA aren't doing any got damned thing good these days and if Iraq is turn apart and decided geographically, then they will loose their position as the "worlds-police" therefore they are doing nothing to help the kurds!
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| ALAN | Jul 30 14, 5:19 Post #1629 |
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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 | Jul 30 14, 5:20 Post #1630 |
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U.S judge says cannot seize Kurdish crude for now By Anna Driver and Ahmed Rasheed HOUSTON/BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A high-stakes dispute over a tanker carrying $100 million (59 million pounds) in Kurdish crude took a surprising turn on Tuesday when a U.S. judge said she lacked jurisdiction given the ship's distance from the Texas shore and urged that the case be settled in Iraq. Federal magistrate Nancy K. Johnson said that because the tanker was some 60 miles (100 km) offshore, and outside territorial waters, an order she issued late on Monday for U.S. Marshals to seize the cargo could not be enforced. She said the dispute between Iraq's central government and the autonomous region of Kurdistan should be resolved in Iraq. Overnight Johnson signed an order directing the marshals to seize the 1 million barrels of crude from the United Kalavrvta tanker anchored in the Gulf of Mexico. Tuesday she scheduled a conference to give the two sides a chance to state their case. The ship could simply sail away, though it also could offload its cargo for delivery to another U.S. Gulf of Mexico port outside of Texas, lawyers said. Baghdad's lawyers had laid claim to the oil in a lawsuit filed on Monday, saying Kurdistan sold the crude without permission from the central government. The latest dispute over exports reflects KRG Kurds’ emboldened steps toward seizing greater political and economic autonomy, with oil sales seen as central to Kurdish dreams of independence that Baghdad opposes. While the sides fought the legal battle in Houston, they pressed the political fight in the courtroom of public opinion. Iraq warned companies against trying to buy other shipments of Kurdish crude after it won the seizure order, while Kurdish leaders asserted their right to sell the oil but said they would face obstacles. “The Ministry of Oil in Baghdad continues to interfere directly and indirectly with KRG oil sales," said Karwan Zebari, an official with the Kurdistan Regional Government’s representation in Washington. SEPARATE CLAIMS A lawyer in Houston for the Kurds said the regional government would file its own claim of ownership for the cargo, a sign the legal standoff might continue. Meanwhile, a Kurdish government official said export plans would be hurt. "We have to acknowledge that the ruling of the U.S. court will definitely have negative consequences on the region's attempts to market its oil," he said of the order to seize the cargo. "Buyers now will start to step back and think twice before purchasing Kurdish crude." Washington has publicly opposed direct oil sales by the autonomous region, fearing they could contribute to the break-up of Iraq. It has stopped short of banning U.S. companies from buying the oil while warning them of potential legal risks. Officials from the State Department and the U.S. Marshals Service said the judge's order could only be applied if the ship entered U.S. territory. In this case, that would be 12 nautical miles from shore, said Martin Davies, a law professor and the director of Tulane University’s Maritime Law Centre in New Orleans. If the oil’s owner wants to stay out of U.S. courts, “they just have to order the ship to stay out," he said. While the rulers of Iraq’s northern Kurdish enclave have long aspired to independence, their position has strengthened in recent months as Kurdish Peshmerga troops have outperformed Iraqi soldiers against Islamist militants. Kurds have also succeeded in cementing their control of land and oil reserves around the resource-rich city of Kirkuk, while Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, a Shi’ite Arab who has been an adversary of KRG Kurds, has fallen out of favour in Washington. At least one cargo of Kurdish crude was delivered to the United States in May to an unidentified buyer, and four other cargoes of Kurdish crude have been delivered this year in Israel. The case is Ministry of Oil of the Republic of Iraq v. Ministry of Natural Resources of Kurdistan Regional Government et al, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas, No. 3:14-cv-00249. (Additional reporting by Lesley Wroughton, Missy Ryan and Tim Gardner in Washington, Isra' al-Rubei'i and Ahmed Rasheed in Baghdad, Terry Wade in Houston, David Ingram and Patience Haggin in New York,; David Sheppard and Julia Payne in London and Supriya Kurane in Bangalore; Editing by Marguerita Choy and Howard Goller) http://uk.mobile.reuters.com/article/idUKKBN0FY0K920140729?irpc=932 |
| 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 | Jul 30 14, 9:54 Post #1631 |
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KRG Letter re oil tanker dispute: HTTP://www.ekrg.org/files/pdf/29%20July%202014%20Letter%20from%20KRG%20to%20Judge%20Miller%20%5Bcompressed%5D.pdf |
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| ALAN | Jul 30 14, 10:59 Post #1632 |
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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 | Jul 30 14, 11:01 Post #1633 |
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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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| kurdishpatriot | Jul 30 14, 11:10 Post #1634 |
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So is the oil sold or is it still on the tanker? |
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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 | Jul 30 14, 11:14 Post #1635 |
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Still there but it's not confiscated like the barkings claim. |
| 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 | Jul 30 14, 11:28 Post #1636 |
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This is still a big blow for us, if it was hard to find buyers before its even harder and it seems even the republicans in the US could not help us, but at least they managed to save the oil. |
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| LelleS | Jul 30 14, 11:46 Post #1637 |
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What's the use of oil in a tanker? soon they will start charging for storing oil. Remember United Leadership been sitting more then two month now. |
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| ALAN | Jul 31 14, 2:40 Post #1638 |
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Baghdad ‘Cannot Win’ in Tanker Claim, Hawrami Warns By RUDAW 2 hours ago ERBIL, South Kurdistan – The South Kurdistan’s energy minister said Wednesday that Iraq has filed a lawsuit in the United States to seize Kurdish oil on a tanker anchored in the Gulf of Mexico, but that it “cannot win.” “The KRG’s lawyers sent a letter to a court in Texas to explain the misrepresentations of the Iraqi federal government,” said Ashti Hawrami, minister of natural resources in the Kurdistan Regional Government. “The Iraqi federal government has petitioned a Texas court for an order to seize crude oil legally produced, exported, and sold by the KRG in accordance with the Iraqi constitution and law. The letter indicates the possibility of massive counterclaims against the federal government,” Hawrami said in a statement on the KRG’s website. “The federal government of Iraq is trying to achieve in foreign courts and in the Iraqi Supreme Court what is denied to the federal government by the Iraqi constitution,” Hawrami said. “The federal government cannot win, because our crude is legally produced, shipped, exported, and sold in accordance with the rights of the South Kurdistan as set forth in the Iraqi constitution,” the minister added. “Our claims for unpaid compensation, which must be paid as provided in the Iraqi constitution and the law, will also be before any foreign court in which the federal government is seeking to attack us,” Hawrami warned. His comments came after a US judge refused permission to the United Kalavrvta tanker to unload its cargo of Kurdish crude in the United States. Federal magistrate Nancy K. Johnson said the tanker is not under the jurisdiction of the United States, given that it is outside territorial waters and is not permitted to unload its cargo. The dispute over the shipment, which was some 100 kilometers offshore Texas, should be resolved in Iraq between the Iraqi government and the Kurdistan autonomous region, Johnson said. On Monday, the judge issued an order for US Marshals to seize the one million barrels of crude from the United Kalavrvta, but later decided that was not enforceable. Also on Monday, lawyers representing the Iraqi government filed a lawsuit saying the Kurds had sold the oil without permission from the central government, Reuters reported. Johnson has scheduled a conference for the two sides to present their case. Lawyers said the tanker could sail away, or offload its cargo for delivery at another US Gulf of Mexico port outside of Texas. Iraq’s Oil Ministry has threatened to sue anyone who purchases oil from the South Kurdistan after the KRG struck deals to sell crude oil via Turkey without first receiving Baghdad’s approval. The KRG has accused Baghdad of using bullying tactics to stop its oil sales and maintains that it will only keep the 17 percent share of the oil revenue sales, in line with the Iraqi constitution. The United States has warned against purchasing crude oil from South Kurdistan because of the potential legal implications from Baghdad. The United Leadership tanker carrying Kurdish crude appeared to be bound for the US in June but ended up in Morocco. Marie Harf, deputy spokesperson for the State Department, told Rudaw that the State Department does not necessarily deem sales of crude oil from South Kurdistan illegal, but “there’s a legal dispute process here, an arbitration mechanism. There will be a legal ruling on it.” Landing crude in the US is an important issue for South Kurdistan, which is trying to establish its own oil trade and is in dire need of revenue since Baghdad cut the region’s funding in January. The feud worsens as Baghdad-Erbil relations are already at rock bottom, and the Kurds are planning an independence referendum to break away from Iraq. http://rudaw.net/english/world/300720141 |
| 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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| deso2409 | Jul 31 14, 10:26 Post #1639 |
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U.S. State department takes an official stance on the #Kurdish oil tanker worth $100m stationed off the coast of #Texas, "The selling of oil in the US from any part of #Iraq is not forbidden". More good news, guys! a step towards victory!! it´s about time that U.S. woke up... |
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| ALAN | Aug 1 14, 1:55 Post #1640 |
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Kurdish oil cargo unloaded at sea, destination a mystery (Reuters) - Part of a Kurdish oil cargo has been offloaded from a Greek-managed tanker into another tanker in the South China Sea, but mystery surrounds the identity of the buyer and where the two tankers are headed. The United Emblem, which is carrying more than 1 million barrels of oil, is one of three tankers loaded with oil from the autonomous South Kurdistan, which is trying to sell oil independently. South Kurdistan is locked in a bitter legal and diplomatic struggle with Baghdad over international oil sales. A U.S. judge on Tuesday refused a request by Baghdad, citing a lack of jurisdiction, to seize 1 million barrels of oil aboard the United Kalavrvta tanker, which has been anchored off the port of Galveston since the weekend. The Kurdistan Regional Government filed a letter with the Texas court arguing its sales are allowed under the Iraqi constitution. Another tanker carrying Kurdish oil, the United Leadership, has been anchored off Morocco for almost two months. All three tankers are managed by Marine Management Services M.C., a Piraeus-based shipping company. A senior executive at Marine Management Services confirmed the ship-to-ship transfer involving the United Emblem took place in a "legitimate operation". The ship is "fixed to a legitimate charterer and performing legitimate operations," said Kostas Georgopoulos, the chartering manager at Marine Management Services. "The ship is still in international waters," he added. Georgopoulos declined to name the charterer or the details of the oil transfer but was aware the 161,724 dwt (deadweight tonne) ship was carrying oil from South Kurdistan. Around half of the ship's cargo could have been offloaded, according to Reuters AIS ship tracking data. Data on July 28 showing the ship was anchored with a 100 percent draft indicated the tanker was fully loaded. The ship's draft was 74 percent of the maximum when the information was updated on Thursday, compared with around 60 percent if the tanker was empty. The ship is anchored in the South China Sea about 20 km off the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia and about 50 km north-east of Singapore, Reuters data showed. Georgopoulos did not know where the ship was headed next, saying the charterers were controlling the vessel. "It's not us controlling the tanker. We are expecting the issuing of orders," Georgopoulos said. The captain of the ship said when reached by telephone: "You can't speak to me. Please don't call again. Whatever information you need get it from my owners. Thank you very much. Bye. Bye." The London based insurer of the ship, the London P&I Club, declined to comment specifically on the vessel or its cargo, although director Steve Roberts, said: "We have had some contact" with Marine Management Services. The United Emblem loaded the oil cargo at Ceyhan in Turkey in mid-June, according to Reuters data, although exports have now stopped because storage at the port is at capacity forcing the Kurdistan Regional Government to shut-off its pipeline. The United States has publicly opposed direct oil sales, fearing they could contribute to the break-up of Iraq, and instead believes Baghdad and the Kurdistan Regional Government should reach an agreement on how the proceeds from oil sales should be split. (Editing Ed Davies) http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/31/us-iraq-oil-kurdistan-asia-idUSKBN0G019720140731 |
| 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 | Aug 1 14, 2:33 Post #1641 |
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U.S. billionaire bought two cargoes of crude oil from South Kurdistan July 31, 2014 NEW YORK,— Chemicals firm LyondellBasell , owned by Ukraine-born billionaire Leonard Blavatnik, appears to be the mystery American buyer of two cargoes of Kurdish crude delivered in May, according to U.S. government data and industry sources. Nearly two months prior to this week's standoff between the central government of Iraq and Kurdistan over a tanker near Texas with $100 million of Kurdish crude, a smaller ship with Kurdish oil discharged its cargo of heavy, sour Shaikan crude in Houston without any legal tangles, Reuters had reported. A second ship arrived later in May, data show. The ultimate buyer of those cargoes had remained a mystery - until now. According to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration released on Wednesday, Houston Refining LP, owned by LyondellBasell, imported two cargoes of what was labeled Iraqi crude that match the size of the May shipments and had the distinct quality specifications of Kurdish Shaikan. The data show two shipments of 266,000 and 267,000 barrels of crude oil, both with 4.6 percent sulfur content, far higher than typical Iraqi imports but in line with the Kurdish Shaikan variety, according to market sources familiar with the oil. The Houston Refining imports were also significantly more dense, or heavier, than standard Iraqi crude, with API ratings of 16.7 and 21.4, similar to Kurdish Shaikan, the data show. Almost all Iraqi crude imported since 2012 has been lighter, at 28 API or more. LyondellBasell did not respond to emails and phone messages from Reuters asking if it had contracted to buy Kurdish oil. A spokesman for Blavatnik's global conglomerate Access Industries, which has a stake in Lyondell, did not comment. Blavatnik, a U.S. citizen who was born in Odessa to Russian-speaking parents, is now the world's 33rd richest man after selling his stake in TNK-BP to Russian oil giant Rosneft, according to Forbes. The data highlight the difficulty Baghdad has had in blocking Kurdistan's ability to sell its crude as its leaders push for greater political and economic autonomy. Both Iraq's oil marketers and the U.S. government have warned those who do business with the Kurdish government, including oil sales, that they risk legal action from Baghdad. For the most part, however, Baghdad has done little to discourage Kurdistan from selling piecemeal shipments hauled to Turkey via truck. In total almost 20 million barrels of combined Kurdish crude oil and condensate has been sold to international customers over two years, including refineries in Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Israel and Brazil. But Baghdad has shown new legal vigilance toward large-scale tanker sales that began this summer, causing buyers to balk. This week it filed a lawsuit in Texas to try to gain control of 1 million barrels of Kurdish crude on the United Kalavrvta tanker anchored in the Gulf of Mexico. The State Department said it has no information on who bought the May cargoes. OPPOSITION TO KURDISH SALES Only a few times in the past two and a half years has the United States imported Iraqi crude with characteristics similar to the cargoes that arrived in May, the EIA data show. One of those was imported by Houston Refining in November 2012 - the same year that Kurdistan first began selling oil independently of the central government in Baghdad. It was not immediately clear whether this shipment also originated from Kurdistan. Another shipment with the characteristics of Kurdish oil arrived at Marathon Petroleum Corp's Galveston Bay refinery in April 2013. It was 19.3 API with sulfur at 3.84 percent. Marathon declined to comment. The United States has not formerly banned purchases of Kurdish crude oil, but in recent months it has pressured companies - both at home and abroad - not to buy Iraqi crude from outside Baghdad's central oil sales system. Still, a number of major U.S. companies, including ExxonMobil Corp, Chevron Corp, Marathon Oil Corp , and Hess Corp are operating in South Kurdistan, despite objections from Baghdad and occasional disquiet in Washington. Baghdad has increased opposition to Kurdish sales since the launch of the Kurdistan Regional Government's own pipeline to Turkey in January that could bring the Kurds greater revenues. By Jonathan Leff - 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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| Zlatan10 | Aug 1 14, 2:37 Post #1642 |
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Tilili ![]() -Fifth tanker of Kurdish oil loading in Turkey- officials (Corrects name of ship in second paragraph) ISTANBUL, July 31 (Reuters) - The fifth cargo of crude oil from South Kurdistan was being loaded at Turkey's Mediterranean port of Ceyhan on Thursday and the tanker was scheduled to depart on Friday, Turkish energy officials said. The Suezmax tanker Kamari arrived at the port late on Wednesday, according to a shipping source, and will be carrying one million barrels of crude oil, officials said. (Reporting by Orhan Coskun, Humeyra Pamuk and Julia Payne in London; Editing by Daren Butler and David Holmes) http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFL6N0Q65FK20140731 |
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| ALAN | Aug 1 14, 2:38 Post #1643 |
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No US ban on transfer or sale of oil from any part of Iraq http://basnews.com/en/News/Details/US-Official--No-US-ban-on-transfer-or-sale-of-oil-from-any-part-of-Iraq/28735 |
| 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 | Aug 2 14, 8:03 Post #1644 |
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Gazprom Neft spuds exploration well in Kurdistan![]() http://www.worldoil.com/Gazprom-Neft-spuds-exploration-well-in-Kurdistan.html? |
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| deso2409 | Aug 6 14, 7:07 Post #1645 |
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Russian Company Gazprom to search for Oil in Halabja It is expected that by the end of 2014 Russian Gazprom Co. will arrive in Halabja province and search for oil on the border with Iran. The Mayor of Halabja, Arkan Hassan Ghafour spoke to BasNews, “It is expected that Gazprom Oil Co. will come to Halabja by the end of the year and its first step will be investigating the type, amount and location of oil in the province.” “Later, if some oil is found in Halabja, they will start the next stage, extracting oil from the ground,” said Ghafour. “If there is a significant find, they will start drilling, “added Ghafour. According to Ghafour, Gazprom Co. staff have been told that once they start to work in Halabja, they have to provide various services to the province including academic, sport, health and youth skill development and they have promised to send four students from Halabja to Russia every year to study to become oil experts. Ghafour noted that choosing students to go to Russia to study in oil will be based on the GDP and other conditions. Source: BasNews |
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| deso2409 | Aug 6 14, 7:10 Post #1646 |
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Kurdish Government Asks Texas Court To Lift Order Against Oil Cargo The Kurdistan Ministry of Natural Resources has called on the United States court to lift the seizure order on the tanker of Kurdish anchored off the coast of Texas. Last week US Federal Judge Nancy Johnson ordered U.S. Marshals to seize the oil if it came ashore. But at a hearing last Tuesday, she said that as the tanker hasn’t come within the boundaries of the state, it’s beyond court’s authority. She also said Iraq, not Texas, was the proper venue to determine who owns the oil carried on the United Kalavrvta. “On Monday, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) filed a motion in a Texas court to lift an order against a cargo of crude oil legally produced, exported, and sold by the KRG in accordance with Iraqi constitution and law,” the Natural Resource Ministry said in a published statement. “The Iraqi federal government complaint, on which the order is based, contains a number of false and irrelevant allegations against the KRG.’ added the Kurdish government letter to the Texas court. The KRG’s motion, including its Appendix, provides a response to those allegations, and includes a brief overview of the Iraqi constitutional provisions against which the Iraqi federal government has set itself. The cargo, worth more than $100 million, could be brought to shore in the U.S. and held in escrow, or it could be sold and the proceeds held by the court until the matter is resolved, the magistrate said. Since May the Kurdish government has shipped six oil tankers, each holding more than one million barrels of crude, from the Turkish port of Ceyhan. The loads come in defiance of Baghdad, which claims it has sole authority over Iraq’s natural resources. Source: BasNews |
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| ALAN | Aug 9 14, 4:35 Post #1647 |
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Another Kurdish tanker leaves Ceyhan port. |
| 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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| Halo | Aug 14 14, 9:30 Post #1648 |
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Can't even register, turkey asks US to leave ban http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/832866de-22fc-11e4-a424-00144feabdc0,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2F832866de-22fc-11e4-a424-00144feabdc0.html%3Fsiteedition%3Dintl&siteedition=intl&_i_referer=http%3A%2F%2Ft.co%2FRDdi1O4nN2#axzz3AMROpWfv |
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| Halo | Aug 14 14, 10:09 Post #1649 |
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" Isis is now selling oil, but Kurds are not allowed to sell their oil,” Turkish official says in call to US |
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| ALAN | Aug 14 14, 10:15 Post #1650 |
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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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