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| deso2409 | Aug 14 14, 11:52 Post #1651 |
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Financial Times: Turkey Has Called on US to Lift Kurdish Oil Ban The United Kalavrvta tanker, which last month was prevented from offloading $100 million worth of Kurdish oil after arriving in the United States. LONDON - Turkey has called on the US to lift obstacles to the sale of oil by Iraq’s cash-strapped Kurds to help in their war with Islamic State (IS/ISIS) militants, London’s Financial Times reported. The daily quoted a senior but unidentified Turkish official as saying, “This is urgent: ISIS is now selling its oil, but the Kurds are not allowed to sell their oil,” a reference to oil fields and installations captured by the militants in eastern Syria and near Mosul in KRG. “Our message for the US is always very clear,” the newspaper quoted the Turkish official as saying. “There is a dispute within Iraq on how to interpret the constitution (over rights to oil revenues) but if outsiders take sides it will not benefit either Iraq, nor energy security, nor future political conciliation.” The United States, siding with the central government in Baghdad, has opposed the Kurds selling their oil independently, fearing that would embolden the South Kurdistan’s bid to declare statehood and break up Iraq. Since last week, US jets have been involved in air strikes against IS positions near Erbil, and momentum has been building in Europe to get behind the Kurds, with France sending arms and the European Union considering doing the same. The Turkish official claimed ISIS was selling cut-price oil to the Syrian government, with allegations of widespread oil smuggling from the jihadist-controlled region, notably to Turkey itself. He compared this to the obstacles faced by the KRG in selling its oil, when it is locked in an escalating war, is hosting at least a million war refugees, and has been cut off from the national budget since February over the oil row. FT reported that this week, Axeon, a US-based refiner, said it would not proceed with a Kurdish buy because it was “controversial” – the latest in a series of rebuffs for tankers circling the globe with shipments of Kurdish oil. With few buyers for its oil, one Kurdish official said the KRG was now working with Ankara on increasing storage capacity at the port of Ceyhan and elsewhere in Turkey, where the oil is piped before being loaded on to tankers, and was also looking at storing offshore, the FT reported. Turkey itself is most keen to buy Kurdish oil, which it needs to fuel its growing economy. Source: http://rudaw.net/english/world/140820141 |
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| ALAN | Aug 14 14, 11:52 Post #1652 |
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Looks like the pic of Pres. Barzani with pkk did it's Job |
| 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 15 14, 6:27 Post #1653 |
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Another KRG oil ship arrives at US shores carrying 300,000 barrels http://knnc.net/Drejey-hawal.aspx?id=31482&LinkID=1&video=False That's the advanced payment for the weapons
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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 | Aug 16 14, 4:33 Post #1654 |
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Let’s Buy That Kurdish Oil By William Tucker There’s a situation going on down in Texas right now that deserves everyone’s attention, even though it hasn’t received much notice in the press. The Kurds are a gritty minority in the Middle East, surviving in a barren swathe of land across KRG and eastern Turkey. They are Muslims but not too fanatical about their religion. They don’t practice much polygamy — the driving force in Muslim aggression — and only want to govern themselves. You won’t find any Kurdish terrorists hijacking planes or blowing themselves up on crowded subways around the world. As a minority in both Iraq and Turkey, however, they have been subject to endless persecution. Saddam Hussein tried to exterminate them and the Turks have long harassed them for their desires for autonomy. They were the big winners in the Iraq Invasion, however. Freed from the yoke of Saddam Hussein, they quickly established their own autonomous region, set up their own government, and have proved more than capable of governing themselves. They have a military force that is second to none. When ISIS burst out of Syria into KRG, they quickly gave up the idea of confronting the Kurds and decided to go after Baghdad’s paper army instead. The Iraqi forces melted away while the Kurds have actually taken the opportunity to expand their holdings by seizing the oil city of Kirkuk. Claiming Iraq’s northern oil fields, they now have plenty of oil to sell. But where to sell it, that has been the problem. The Shiite-dominated Baghdad government has demanded that the Kurds sell their oil through them, claiming all the royalties and leaving the Kurds only a small stipend in the process. But the Kurds refused and resourcefully built their own pipeline west through Turkey to the port of Ceyhan. The work was completed in May and the Kurds recently loaded their first tanker with $100 million of oil. That’s when the trouble began. Because of a set of prohibitions and sanctions set up by our State Department, most of the oil-importing countries of the world have refused to buy the Kurdish cargo. The idea is we’re supposed to be propping up the Maliki government in its effort to make Iraq a unified country. But Baghdad itself isn’t doing a very good job, kicking the Sunnis out of the administration, leaving itself open to the Sunni-dominated ISIS invasion, and turning to Iran when it needs help. Once again the resourceful Kurds are a persecuted minority being exploited for their ambitious efforts. So the Kurdish tanker became a Flying Dutchman, circling the globe in search of a friendly port to buy its oil. For a while it looked as if Italy might take it but the State Department prevented that. And so this week the Flying Dutchman ended up anchored off the Port of Galveston with the possibility that Texas’s thriving, bustling, free-enterprise-loving economy might cycle it into its ample refinery network. But no, international politics has intervened once again. Iraq has sued, calling the oil “stolen” and Texas Judge Nancy Johnson agreed, not only blockading the sale of the cargo but demanding that it be seized as stolen property. Well, that didn’t last long. Another ruling has determined that the tanker is anchored outside U.S. territorial limits and thus beyond the court’s jurisdiction. Still, in a world thirsting for oil, the Kurds remain unable to unload their precious cargo and give their fragile economy the boost it needs to survive. Why is it we always end up supporting these puppet regimes? From the Kuomintang to South Vietnam to Iraq we always seem to end up backing some dispirited paper army while the opposition is highly motivated and full of purpose. (True, it may be W. B Yeats’ “the worst are full of passionate intensity,” but it is intensity.) Before the Iraq Invasion, there was a huge vogue about the Kurds among the American left. They were an abused minority and worthy of their attention. (Perhaps awarded “refugee” status so they can come to America and vote Democratic?) But once George Bush liberated the Kurds, the left lost interest. (“We didn’t mean THAT kind of liberation!”) The Kurds no longer have that damsel-in-distress appeal. Yet now that the Kurds have proved they are capable of organizing and supporting themselves, Republicans have shown no interest in them. What are we waiting for? Why doesn’t someone in Congress pick up the cause, pass an emergency measure saying we can buy that Kurdish oil and give a proud and independent people a fighting chance? http://spectator.org |
| 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 16 14, 4:34 Post #1655 |
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KRG ASKS TEXAS COURT TO LIFT ORDER AGAINST OIL CARGO 5/8/2014 14:35:00 The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has today filed a motion in a court in Texas to lift an order against a cargo of crude oil legally produced, exported, and sold by the KRG in accordance with the Iraqi constitution and law. The Iraqi federal government complaint, on which the order was based, contains a number of false and irrelevant allegations against the KRG. 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. KRG.org |
| 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 16 14, 4:34 Post #1656 |
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Erbil: Oil Production in the Region Unaffected 10/8/2014 17:33:00 ERBIL, South Kurdistan—The Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) said on Saturday that the recent hostilities haven’t affected Kurdistan’s oil production and that exports continue to domestic and foreign markets. “Oil production in the Region remains unaffected, and is being delivered to both the domestic and export markets,” said the MNR in a statement. “Indeed, the KRG is expecting that the producing companies will ramp up production in the coming weeks as ongoing export infrastructure improvements come online as planned.” The statement said that “the enemy” has not been able to target oil operations in the Region, but as a precautionary measure some of the exploration activities in areas abutting potential combat zones have been temporarily halted and staff relocated. The autonomous South Kurdistan has battled Islamist militants on its borders for a week, particularly in Mosul, Jalawla and Makhmour. The South Kurdistan seized several new oilfields in June and July after the withdrawal of the Iraqi army from Nineveh and Kirkuk and before the fields fell to the IS militants. “The MNR attaches the highest priority to the safety and security of all oil industry workers and their operations in the South Kurdistan,” read the statement. On Friday US air strikes against the Islamic State (IS) on different frontlines turned the tide in favor of the Peshmerga forces. “The producing companies continue to receive their share of production and revenue from all the domestic uses of the oil, and they have been advised to also work on the export sales for their share of the exported oil,” explained the MNR statement. The ministry also advised operating and service companies to coordinate their activities with the MNR, otherwise it may “lead to unnecessary complications and in some cases could harm the operators’ own interests as well as the KRG’s overall needs.” “The MNR is continuing with oil exports and sales via Ceyhan and welcomes the support and investment of the oil companies in the South Kurdistan,” said the statement. http://pukmedia.com/EN/EN_Direje.aspx?Jimare=21098 |
| 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 16 14, 8:36 Post #1657 |
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Exclusive: Kurds sell third major oil cargo, fourth heads to Croatia (Reuters) - South Kurdistan has delivered its third major cargo of crude oil out of a Turkish port and a fourth is sailing to Croatia, showing the autonomous region is finding more buyers despite legal pressure from Baghdad and setbacks in the United States. The Kurdish Regional Government (KRG), whose peshmerga forces are being supported by U.S. airstrikes in their battle against the radical Sunni militants of Islamic State, has been in a long constitutional fight with Baghdad over independent oil sales. But while some shipments have been tied up by diplomatic and legal pressure from Baghdad, an increasing number are now finding buyers. Around $350 million in oil sales have been completed or are under way from shipments sent via the KRG's new pipeline to Turkey, a Reuters analysis of satellite tracking data shows. The first vessel of pipeline crude sailed in May. "The sales process is standardising and our order book is growing," a senior official in the Kurdistan Regional Government said when asked about the sales. "While we are fighting a war with the Islamic State we're also facing an economic war from Baghdad." Baghdad has cut the KRG's budget since January over the oil sales dispute, saying it has sole authority to export crude from the country. One cargo of Kurdish crude aboard the United Kalavrvta tanker has been sitting off the Texas coast since late July after Baghdad asked a court to seize the vessel. The ship remains in international waters off the U.S. coast, unable to unload. The KRG is appealing against Baghdad's request. Another vessel carrying Kurdish crude from Turkey's Mediterranean port of Ceyhan, the United Leadership, has been anchored off Morocco for more than two months without unloading. But a little over two weeks ago, the 1 million barrel Suezmax Kamari tanker loaded Kurdish oil at Ceyhan before sailing to a point just under 200 km (125 miles) off the Israeli and Egyptian coasts. Reuters AIS Live ship tracking showed the ship was fully loaded, based on its draft in the water. After turning its satellite tracking off on Aug. 1, the ship reappeared four days later sitting far higher in the water - indicating it had unloaded its cargo of disputed oil. It was not possible to determine which port the oil had been delivered to or who the buyer was. In June a cargo of Kurdish oil that sailed from Ceyhan aboard the United Emblem Suezmax tanker was delivered into Israel after being transferred at sea to another ship. The KRG has denied selling oil to Israel "directly or indirectly". Another cargo, again carried by the United Emblem tanker, was transferred to a second vessel off the coast of Malaysia late last month. The buyer remains unknown. South Kurdistan has been selling small volumes of oil trucked into Turkey since 2012 but has faced fiercer opposition from Baghdad since its own pipeline to Ceyhan started at the turn of the year. It now carries around 120,000 barrels per day to the port. The KRG has said it plans to increase oil sales to around 1 million bpd by the end of next year, which could potentially give it enough economic clout to speed a push for independence. CROATIA BOUND This week the Kamari has again loaded crude at Ceyhan, sailing to Malta where it executed a ship-to-ship transfer to a smaller vessel called the United Carrier, a shipping source familiar with the matter said and ship tracking showed. The vessel is managed by Greece-based Marine Management Services, the same company that runs the Suezmax tankers lifting Kurdish oil. The United Carrier is now sailing towards a port in Croatia. The Omisalj port imports oil for Croatia's refineries, which are partly-owned by Hungary's Mol Group, a company that has invested in oilfields in South Kurdistan. A spokeswoman for Mol Group in Hungary declined to comment. The Croatian government, which owns the 100,000 barrel per day INA refining company jointly with Mol Group, was not available to comment on Friday - a public holiday in Croatia. Based on international prices above $100 a barrel, total Kurdish crude sales from Ceyhan would total around $350 million, even if some tankers have been slightly discounted. This week a senior Turkish official called on the United States to lift hurdles to the sale of crude from South Kurdistan, the Financial Times reported, saying Kurdistan was facing an enemy that was boosting its operations through oil sales. Islamic State militants are selling oil from oilfields and refineries they control to local communities and smugglers, U.S. intelligence officials said on Thursday. "We appreciate the Turkish line of thinking and we believe other countries should also support oil sales from South Kurdistan," the senior KRG source said. "If they are going to trust Kurdistan to fight ISIS (the previous name of Islamic State) they should not expect us to do it with one hand tied behind our back." On Thursday Nuri al-Maliki finally bowed to pressure and stepped down as Iraqi prime minister. There are hopes the new prime minister, Haider al-Abadi, will negotiate an oil sales agreement with the KRG, though some have cautioned he has previously backed Maliki's stance on the issue. The latest signs point to the KRG continuing to step up its oil sales. The United Dynamic, another Suezmax tanker managed by the same shipping firm as the other Kurdish oil vessels is also now sailing towards Ceyhan, according to Reuters AIS Live. On Friday the United Dynamic, which is currently empty, was off the northern coast of Tunisia. It is due to dock at Ceyhan on Aug. 21. (Additional reporting by Igor Ilic in Zagreb; editing by Keiron Henderson) http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/15/uk-iraq-security-oil-kurds-idUSKBN0GF1PY20140815 Edited by Zagros, Aug 16 14, 8:37.
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| ALAN | Aug 16 14, 8:57 Post #1658 |
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Nice EU buys our oil and gives us advanced weapons, that's our confederation right there
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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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| deso2409 | Aug 19 14, 2:14 Post #1659 |
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Good move for our confederation! Long Live those who support us! thumbs*
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| ALAN | Aug 21 14, 5:16 Post #1660 |
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Very nice |
| 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 | Aug 21 14, 6:27 Post #1661 |
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secular sheikh
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBmLPK0mx34 |
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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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| Zagros | Aug 22 14, 4:36 Post #1662 |
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Kurdish oil tanker reappears unladen off Israel A tanker carrying crude oil from South Kurdistan reappeared unladen on Wednesday about 30 kilometers off the coast of Israel, Reuters said. This is the second time the Kamari has appeared in the area in the last two weeks carrying Kurdish oil. The tanker Kamari was partly laden north of Egypt's Sinai on Aug. 17, tracking showed, before it turned off its satellite transponder until early yesterday. It was not possible to determine where the oil had been delivered to or who the buyer was. A spokesman for the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Ministry of Natural Resources did not immediately respond to phone calls and emails seeking comment on Wednesday. The KRG has previously denied selling oil to Israel "directly or indirectly". The tanker loaded the Kurdish crude at the Turkish port of Ceyhan around Aug. 8, and made a partial delivery to Croatia via a ship-to-ship transfer last week. Hungary's MOL Group said on Monday that it had purchased 80,000 tones, just under 600,000 barrels, of Kurdish crude, which discharged at Croatia's Omisalj port at the weekend. The company has exploration and production assets in Kurdistan. Iraq's central government in Baghdad has repeatedly called independent Kurdish exports "smuggling", saying only state marketer SOMO has the right to sell Iraqi oil. The KRG says the Iraqi constitution allows it to sell oil independently of Baghdad. Since the KRG began exporting major volumes via its pipeline, Baghdad has actively tried to block sales and has so far been successful in stopping one to Morocco and another to the United States. Baghdad has also cut the Kurds out of the country's budget since January. Despite the setbacks, an increasing number of cargoes are now finding buyers. http://www.kurdpress.com/En/NSite/FullStory/News/?Id=8137#Title=%0A%09%09%09%09%09%09%09%09Kurdish oil tanker reappears unladen off Israel%0A%09%09%09%09%09%09%09 Edited by Zagros, Aug 22 14, 5:00.
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| davidh | Aug 23 14, 3:20 Post #1663 |
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Bloomberg News http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-22/kurds-said-to-plan-quadrupled-oil-exports-on-pump-breakthrough.html Kurds Said to Plan Quadrupled Oil Exports on Pump Breakthrough By Selcan Hacaoglu August 22, 2014 Iraq’s Kurdish administration may increase oil exports via Turkey fourfold to half a million barrels a day in months, according to an official with knowledge of the situation, citing improvements in pumping capacity. Installment of a new booster station at Fishkabur in the semi-autonomous Kurdish territory of Iraq was successful and increased flows from around 125,000 barrels of crude a day earlier this month to 300,000 barrels as of yesterday. Turkey also modified an export pipeline connecting Kurdistan’s oil regions to the Turkish Mediterranean terminal of Ceyhan, further increasing volume, the official said today, asking not to be named citing policy. KRG Kurds will install a fourth booster to further increase the pipeline’s throughput to 500,000 barrels a day within three months, the official said. The Kurdistan Regional Government, or KRG, didn’t answer phone calls placed to its press office seeking comment on the matter today. VIDEO: KRG Kurds Look to Profit from Kirkuk Oil Chaos In facilitating the KRG’s oil exports, Turkey has been dismissing retaliation by the Iraqi federal government in Baghdad, which says the trade is illegal must be stopped. For the Kurds, whose armed forces have played a central role in countering an Islamist insurgency in Iraq over the past three months, oil is an economic lifeline as they consider moves toward greater independence. Seven tankers have so far loaded 6.5 million of 7.8 million barrels of Kurdish oil transported to the Ceyhan terminal, Turkey’s Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said on Aug. 18. The federal government in Baghdad has tried to block Kurdistan from exporting oil on its own, citing a constitutional clause making the central government responsible for oil shipments and revenues. KRG Kurds have also separately been exporting crude on trucks via Turkey. To contact the reporter on this story: Selcan Hacaoglu in Ankara at shacaoglu@bloomberg.net |
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| Zagros | Aug 26 14, 5:53 Post #1664 |
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Tanker carrying Kurdish crude changes course toward Cyprus Aug 25 (Reuters) - A tanker carrying 300,000 barrels of Kurdish crude oil has changed its destination to Limassol, Cyprus, as it returned from the United States without delivering its disputed cargo to a New Jersey refiner. The Minerva Joy tanker had previously listed its destination as "Gibraltar orders," which usually implies a destination in the Eastern Mediterranean or further east. It changed its destination to "Limassol orders" at around 1600 GMT on Saturday, according to Reuters AIS Live shiptracking. On Aug. 13, the Minerva Joy began sailing eastwards from off the coast of Paulsboro, New Jersey, after refiner Axeon Specialty Products said it would not buy or accept delivery of any cargoes of disputed Kurdish crude oil for its Paulsboro refinery. Iraq's central government has sought to block independent exports of crude by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). The KRG argued it was allowed to sell crude under the Iraqi constitution, which Baghdad disputes. Several cargoes of Kurdish Shaikan crude have recently reached the United States, but not all have been able to discharge their oil. The United Kalavrvta is anchored outside of Galveston, Texas, with its cargo of Kurdish crude still unloaded. In total, about $140 million worth of Iraqi Kurdish crude oil has been stopped from entering the United States in the last month. The United States has not banned companies from buying Iraqi Kurdish oil, but has warned firms they may face legal action from Baghdad. Axeon has said it received a separate cargo of Kurdish Shaikan crude in June. At the end of July, refiner LyondellBasell NV confirmed it had recently bought "modest quantities" of what public records showed was Kurdish Shaikan crude and said it would scrap further purchases of the disputed oil for the time being. (Editing by Jessica Resnick-Ault and Jeffrey Benkoe) http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/25/kurdistan-oil-tanker-idUSL1N0QV0TW20140825?rpc=401&feedType=RSS&feedName=rbssIndustryMaterialsUtilitiesNews&rpc=401 |
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| Pker2theend | Aug 26 14, 1:45 Post #1665 |
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#Breaking — U.S. judge throws out a court order to seize Kurdish oil off the Texas coast. More soon! #TwitterKurds |
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Friday, May 29th, 2015 Today, 5:55 AM Tevger: i love kdpi. | |
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| ALAN | Aug 26 14, 2:53 Post #1666 |
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Kurds Win Court Order on Oil Tanker Off Texas ERBIL, South Kurdistan—The Kurdish government is now able to sell $100 million of crude oil after a US judge threw out on Monday a lawsuit filed by the Iraqi government against the sale, according to Bloomberg Businessweek. “Kurdistan’s unauthorized export of oil over land -– and later overseas –- may violate Iraqi law, but it does not violate U.S. maritime law,” Bloomberg Businessweek quoted District Judge Gray Miller in Houston as saying. A tanker carrying crude oil from the autonomous South Kurdistan of Iraq has been waiting in international waters off the coast of Texas for month due to a dispute between Erbil and Baghdad over the ownership of the cargo. According to the report by Bloomberg Businessweek, Judge Miller said “he lacked authority under federal laws governing property stolen at sea to decide the dispute.” “Miller threw out a seizure order issued July 28 by a Houston magistrate judge, who questioned U.S. jurisdiction in the matter while agreeing to store the cargo onshore at Iraq’s expense as the debate continued in that nation’s Supreme Court,” said the report. Bloomberg Businessweek wrote that Iraq had failed to convince the district judge that “the oil was misappropriated when it was loaded into a tanker in the Mediterranean Sea after being pumped across Turkey in an Iraq-owned pipeline.” http://rudaw.net/english/kurdistan/26082014 |
| 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 | Aug 26 14, 5:37 Post #1667 |
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america buys our oil = whole the west buying our oil |
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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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| AlanJunior | Aug 26 14, 5:47 Post #1668 |
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I predicted this as Shengal fell. Its all interconnected. |
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| Zagros | Aug 27 14, 5:42 Post #1669 |
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DNO Targets Kurdish Oil Exports in Market Opened by U.S. Ruling DNO ASA (DNO), the oil producer focused on Bashur, said a U.S. court ruling has opened a market for Kurdish crude and it could make its first independent export sales by the end of the year at international prices. A U.S. district judge in Houston yesterday ruled that the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government can take 1 million barrels of crude ashore in Texas even though Iraq’s central government claims ownership of it. That’s “good news” for DNO, which has been cleared by the KRG to export oil independently, Executive Chairman Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani said. “That opens up a market, and we’ll walk into that market as well,” he said today in Stavanger, on Norway’s west coast. “It’s not just a legal matter or political matter, it’s also a matter of having refineries take this oil, run it through their refineries and see how it works.” DNO, the first foreign explorer to drill in Iraq after the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, has been caught in a dispute between the KRG and Baghdad’s central government over the proceeds of oil exports. After pumping oil from its Tawke field in Kurdistan through a new pipeline to Turkey’s Ceyhan port since the start of the year, DNO has now been cleared by regional authorities to export its own oil as its share of production. The Kurds, who are working to quadruple the capacity of their export pipeline, have defied the central government in recent weeks by shipping seven cargoes of oil overseas. Brent Discount The U.S. court decision is probably not the last step of the legal struggle, DNO’s Mossavar-Rahmani said. Still, he’d be “disappointed” if the company didn’t make its first export sale by the end of the year, he said, adding that it’s too early to say whether that would be to a U.S. buyer. While DNO’s heavy oil will be sold at a discount to Brent crude, a benchmark, the company expects it to be sold at international prices, which would represent a significant premium to the $50 to $60 a barrel it’s getting from sales to the local Kurdish market, Mossavar-Rahmani said. Brent for October settlement traded 33 cents higher at $102.98 a barrel on the London-based ICE Futures Europe exchange as of 4:10 p.m. local time. “It’ll be in line with what the Kurdish government is now getting,” he said. “I understand that those prices are in line with world prices.” http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-26/dno-targets-kurdish-oil-exports-in-market-opened-by-u-s-ruling.html? |
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| Zagros | Aug 30 14, 1:56 Post #1670 |
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Kurds raise oil funds for refugees Help needed to address fallout from Islamic State ERBIL, Aug. 29 (UPI) -- The Kurdish government said it's expanding a humanitarian initiative tied to oil operations to address the influx of refugees fleeing the Islamic State. The Sunni-led Islamic State, a terrorist group known also as the Islamic State of Iraqi and Syria, has squared off against Kurdish forces as it tries to expand its claims to territory in the region. The semiautonomous Kurdistan Regional Government said Friday it was broadening its Kurdistan Oil and Gas Humanitarian Initiative to extend to new refugees and internally displaced persons. "The Kurdish Ministry of Natural Resources is pleased that a number of oil companies in the South Kurdistan have already asked how they can support humanitarian efforts for the massive new influx of refugees and IDPs," it said in a statement. "With the expansion of KOGHI, companies have an already established framework for providing funds." The Kurdish government says it launched the initiative in 2013 alongside oil and natural gas companies operating in the region. It said the fund has generated $15 million in aid donations so far. U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said Monday she was appalled by the widespread human rights abuses carried out by the Islamic State. "They are systematically targeting men, women and children based on their ethnic, religious or sectarian affiliation and are ruthlessly carrying out widespread ethnic and religious cleansing in the areas under their control," she said in a statement. Read more: http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Energy-Resources/2014/08/29/Kurds-raise-oil-funds-for-refugees/5841409321570/#ixzz3BnEqHIwi |
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| diako_ber | Sep 3 14, 6:06 Post #1671 |
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Kurdistan MNR stated that they're willing to cooperate with Baghdad by exporting 100,000 barrels if Baghdad sends the salaries of September, October and November Lol... |
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| Alasha | Sep 16 14, 9:31 Post #1672 |
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Kurds Fight Iraq’s Second Bid to Seize Tanker Off Texas Sept. 16 (Bloomberg) –- The Kurdistan Regional Government asked a U.S. judge to reject the Iraqi Oil Ministry’s bid to use new legal theories to seek a second seizure order for $100 million of Kurdish crude waiting in a tanker off the Texas coast. U.S. District Judge Gray Miller ruled last month he had no authority to decide which government rightfully owns the cargo, which was pumped from wells in the autonomous South Kurdistan of KRG and exported through a Turkish pipeline. He threw out a U.S. magistrate’s arrest warrant that would have allowed federal agents to seize the crude and store it ashore at the Iraqi government’s expense, if the ship enters U.S. territorial waters, until the ownership dispute can be resolved. The judge gave the Iraqis a chance to revise their suit, and the central government asked to add new legal theories to try for a second order seizing the cargo. “The Ministry of Oil has repackaged old facts into new legal claims” that don’t change the judge’s determination he lacked authority to decide the matter under U.S. laws governing property stolen on the high seas, Harold Watson, a lawyer for the Kurds, said in a filing in Houston federal court. If the oil was improperly exported, which the Kurds deny, any misappropriation occurred on land in Kurdistan, not onboard the tanker, Watson said. “This is a dispute firmly rooted in Iraq, and it will not and cannot be resolved by application of maritime law,” Watson said. The Kurds also contend U.S. state doctrines prohibit federal agents from seizing the property of sovereign foreign governments before a judge can fully decide the matter. Kurdish Crude Both sides previously said the Iraq Supreme Court should determine who has the right to export Kurdish crude. Watson also urged Miller to reject Iraq’s attempt to add a “John Doe” theft claim against the cargo’s unidentified buyer to try to seize the crude under Texas stolen-property laws. There’s no evidence proving the cargo wasn’t sold while the oil was still in Kurdistan, Watson said, which means Iraqi courts should still decide the matter. Phillip Dye, one of the U.S. lawyers for Iraq’s Oil Ministry, told Miller in August that Iraq hoped to seize the cargo in Texas as leverage to force the KRG to appear before the Iraq Supreme Court. The two sides are locked in a protracted battle there over billions of dollars in unpaid oil royalties and overdue war-damage reparations the central government owes Kurdistan. Jim Loftis, another of Iraq’s Houston attorneys, didn’t immediately respond after regular business hours yesterday to a request for comment on the KRG filing. The case is Ministry of Oil of the Republic of Iraq vs. 1,032,212 Barrels of Crude Oil, 3:14-249, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas (Galveston). Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-16/kurds-ask-judge-to-deny-iraq-s-second-bid-to-seize-texas-tanker.html |
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Jet fuel can't melt steel beams "If Turkey allows itself interfere in the matter of Kerkûk because of a few thousand Turkmen, we will do the same with regard to Diyarbakir (Amed) and other Kurdistani cities in Turkey because of 30 million Kurds." - President Masoud Barzanî | |
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| Zagros | Sep 18 14, 4:38 Post #1673 |
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South Kurdistan oil heads to Asia, in talks with China September 17, 2014 LONDON,— At least 3 million barrels of Iraqi Kurdish oil are on ships heading to Asia, with trade sources naming China as a possible destination as the autonomous South Kurdistan expands efforts to establish independent oil sales in defiance of Baghdad. Two sources with knowledge of the matter said South Kurdistan was in talks to potentially supply China with 4 million barrels of oil. Reuters was unable to identify the Chinese parties involved in the talks, which the sources declined to name, and it was not clear if the cargoes currently on the water were part of the discussions. A deal could place Beijing on a collision course with Baghdad, one of its major crude oil suppliers, which has tried to block the Kurdish sales that it says are illegal. The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) argues they are allowed under the Iraqi constitution. "The Kurds are in the process of negotiations with the Chinese," said one of the sources, who asked not to be identified due to the sensitivity of the matter. "China is buying up multiple origins of oil. So, there is not an issue from that side," the source added. "It will come down to price." Since May, South Kurdistan has shipped over 11 million barrels of crude from the Turkish port of Ceyhan. The Kurdish sales have been shrouded in mystery, and the KRG has declined to say who is helping it arrange the deals. Trading sources said they may have to discount the oil to attract buyers in a well-supplied market. According to a Reuters analysis of tanker tracking data, at least three Kurdish cargoes of 1 million barrels each have sailed from Ceyhan towards Asia in the past month, including one that was transferred to a supertanker near the Strait of Singapore on Monday. Prior to the latest shipments only one 1 million barrel cargo had gone to Asia, but the KRG may be seeking a new major buyer after an attempt to sell crude into the United States this summer became embroiled in a legal tangle. China's giant state-backed energy firms, including China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) and PetroChina, together work on over a fifth of the Baghdad-run oil projects. But Beijing also has stakes in South Kurdistan's oil productionwww.Ekurd.net through Sinopec's 2009 acquisition of Addax Petroleum. Establishing a buyer as large as China could provide reassurance to other countries and companies who would like to buy oil from the Kurds but fear the ramifications of crossing Baghdad, which has repeatedly threatened legal action. Senior officials at CNPC and Sinopec declined to comment. A spokesman from the KRG's Ministry of Natural Resources declined to comment when asked about the talks. "KRG crude, priced at a significant discount, is finding its way across the world to many destinations despite the reluctance of big trading houses due to backlash from (Iraqi state oil marketer) SOMO," said another source involved with the talks, who also declined to be identified. "As one of the world's biggest crude buyers, China is no exception. I believe that a deal is imminent for Chinese refineries to purchase KRG crude." SHIP-TO-SHIP The Ultimate Freedom suezmax tanker, carrying 1 million barrels of Kurdish oil from Ceyhan, this week carried out a ship-to-ship transfer of its cargo to the Northern Star, a Very Large Crude Carrier that can hold 2 million barrels of oil. The vessels were just outside the Singapore Strait in Malaysian waters. An official at the Malaysian Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP) and the ship's captain confirmed a transfer between the two vessels took place. The Singapore-based head of shipping at Nathalin Offshore Company Ltd, which manages the Northern Star, denied its ship was involved in a ship-to-ship transfer. Two more Kurdish tankers, the United Dynamic and United Emblem, have sailed through the Suez Canal in the past week and are listed as heading to Asia 'for orders'. GROWING SALES After a stuttering start, South Kurdistan's oil sales now appear to be gaining momentum. More tankers have loaded at Ceyhan this week, while a number of deliveries in the eastern Mediterranean appear to have been made since the start of this month. The KRG's oil sales efforts increasingly resemble a cat-and-mouse game with Baghdad, with tankers loaded with crude frequently turning off satellite tracking before reappearing empty several days later. In some instances ships have sailed towards certain ports before sharply changing direction. A number of cargoes have gone to Israel, sources have said. MOL Group, which has assets in South Kurdistan, has also bought at least one cargo for its Croatian refinery, industry sources say. "Baghdad has been very clear and has taken action to block other KRG sales," said Richard Mallinson, a geopolitical analyst at London-based consultancy Energy Aspects. "But China is a major buyer of (southern Iraqi) Basrah crude, so how willing and able will Baghdad be to respond in the same way?" Copyright ©, respective author or news agency, Reuters http://www.ekurd.net/mismas/articles/misc2014/9/state8504.htm |
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| kurdishpatriot | Sep 18 14, 5:27 Post #1674 |
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WE REACHED CHINA, all our oil will be sold instantly lol. |
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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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| kurdishpatriot | Sep 18 14, 5:31 Post #1675 |
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Erbil and Baghdad Close to Oil Agreement 17.09.2014 Hemin Salih BasNews, Erbil The South Kurdistan and the federal Iraqi government in Baghdad have been engaging in talks regarding oil and are approaching an agreement. Former Iraqi prime minister Nuri al-Maliki had previously cut off Kurdistan’s budget to show Baghdad’s opposition to the exportation of Kurdish oil. Kurdistan has nonetheless participated in Iraqi’s new cabinet and agreed upon a period of time for the two sides to solve conflicts between them. According BasNews sources, the agreement is as follows: half Kurdistan’s oil will be exported through the State Organization for Marketing Oil (SOMO) company and the revenues will directly go to Iraq’s central government, however, the other half will be exported throughout Ceyhan Port in Turkey, the revenue from which to come directly to the South Kurdistan from Turkish HalkBank. As a result, one portion of Kurdistan’s budget will come from Baghdad, and an Iraqi team will be monitoring the dealings and the profits that Kurdistan makes from the oil sale, which will be sent to the central government. Iraqi president Fuad Masum revealed to Al-Hayat Newspaper that Kurdistan and Baghdad have settled their conflicts, and are coming on agreement regarding oil issues. Edited by ALAN, Sep 18 14, 1:49.
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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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