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| ALAN | Oct 28 14, 12:15 Post #1701 |
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Now that's something
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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 | Oct 28 14, 1:43 Post #1702 |
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700 thousand will boost the economy very much |
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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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| LelleS | Oct 28 14, 6:18 Post #1703 |
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Yes that's perfect but what about money? Turkey says thet send only 17% to KRG?? KRG say they have control of all the payments from oil, whats true?? |
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| ALAN | Oct 29 14, 1:28 Post #1704 |
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Turks only are there to collect their fees
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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 | Oct 29 14, 2:53 Post #1705 |
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And this is how http://rudaw.net/english/kurdistan/281020142 |
| 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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| Alasha | Oct 29 14, 4:14 Post #1706 |
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Pipeline upgrade to boost Kurdish oil exports ![]() A new pipeline upgrade will significantly boost Kurdish oil exports by the end of the year, according to Kurdistan Region officials. On Tuesday the Kurdistan Regional Government confirmed that Kurdish exports of crude to Turkey are expected to reach 400,000 barrels per day (bpd) by the end of the year, up from current levels of more than 290,000bpd. They added that this number should rise to 500,000bpd by the end of the first quarter of 2015. Once technical upgrades in both Turkey and the Kurdistan region are fully complete, the Ministry of Natural Resources says the pipeline will reach a capacity of 700,000bpd. The KRG aims to reach one million bpd by the end of 2015. But these figures are contingent on a number of simultaneous developments. Norwegian oil and gas firm DNO working on a new 24-inch pipeline for the Tawke field, which will help it meet a 200,000bpd deliverability target this year. Anglo-Turkish firm Genel hopes to increase its production by 80,000bpd before 2015, according to its website. They also factor in oil that the Iraqi federal government considers misappropriated by Kurdistan from its state-owned North Oil Company. Oil pumped from the KRG-controlled fields in Makhmour district—the Avana dome in Kirkuk field and Bai Hassan field—are being linked by a spur to the KRG-Turkey pipeline. Oil from Avana has been flowing to the KRG for a little over a week. Testing on the Bai Hassan branch is imminent, according to the Ministry of Natural resources. The oil from these fields will be used by the KRG for its domestic refineries, helping the region to maintain its supply of refined products after Islamic State militants disrupted the activity of the Baiji refinery in June. The loss of Iraq’s largest refinery in June caused shortages of electricity and refined oil products, such as gasoline. The Ministry of Natural Resources also stated that production in Avana and Bai Hassan will free up oil from its Khurmala dome for export. The use of Kirkuk oil promises to complicate future negotiations over control of the country’s oil exports, the focus of a bitter dispute between Hewlêr and Baghdad that led former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to cut off the region’s budget—over one billion dollars a month—in January. Despite their disagreement, Baghdad had agreed to link Kirkuk’s Avana dome to the Khurmala field in Kurdistan after repeated insurgent attacks forced the North Oil to close its Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline in early March. The government was eager to resume exports of Kirkuk crude: every day its pipeline was offline, it lost revenue from the sale of 300,000bpd of oil. “Increasing throughput capacity is commendable,” says Nat Kern, president of Foreign Reports, an oil industry consulting firm. “If Baghdad and Irbil ever reach an agreement, Iraq will need a new outlet for Kirkuk crude. If not, the KRG will need to overcome the legal obstacles Baghdad has erected so that it can develop a reliable customer base. The Obama Administration shouldn’t take sides in these legal disputes. Either way, the KRG is laying the groundwork for much higher volumes, to be exported sooner or later, for itself or for Iraq.” Source: http://rudaw.net/english/kurdistan/281020142 |
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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 | Oct 31 14, 2:22 Post #1707 |
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MOL gets approval for Akri-Bijeel block development plan BUDAPEST/LONDON The Kurdistan Regional Government has approved a major new oilfield development majority-owned by Hungary's MOL, the company said. The minister of natural resources has given the green light for the field development plan of the Akri-Bijeel Block adjacent to the region's largest oilfield, Shaikan, a year after MOL found enough oil to make the project commercially viable. A number of oilfield operators in South Kurdistan were forced to temporarily curb production this year as the advance of Islamic State militants threatened workers' security. "MOL Group is committed to maintain its presence and increase investments in the region," Alexander Dodds, MOL's upstream executive vice president, said. MOL's minority partner in the Akri-Bijeel project is Gulf Keystone Petroleum (GKP). The partners will tackle the project in two phases, with the first starting immediately and focusing on determining details such as how much oil can be recovered and overall costs. -- Reuters http://www.tradearabia.com/news/OGN_268652.html? |
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| Zagros | Oct 31 14, 7:34 Post #1708 |
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Hungary deal boosts outlook for direct Kurdish oil sales Hewlêr, Kurdistan Region - The Kurdistan Regional Government appears close to finding a regular buyer for its oil after approving on Thursday the development of a major oil field by Hungary’s MOL Group. MOL was the only one of dozens of foreign operators with equity stakes in South Kurdistan to make public its purchase of Kurdish crude after a cargo of 600,000 barrels was delivered to MOL’s refinery in Croatia in late August. The integrated oil and gas company has indicated it wants to buy Kurdish crude for its European refineries on a regular basis. Baghdad has claimed that Kurdish oil shipments that started in May via a pipeline to Ceyhan in Turkey are illegal and it launched legal action against the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in the US. "MOL Group is committed to maintain its presence and increase investments in the region,” Alexander Dodds, MOL's upstream executive vice-president said on Thursday after receiving approval to develop the Akri-Bijeel block from the KRG’s Ministry of Natural Resources. MOL's wholly-owned subsidiary, Kalegran, declared the block commercial a year ago. A KRG official told Rudaw that Kurdish crude was being sold at only a modest $8 discount. Brent crude, an international benchmark is currently trading at around $87. Heavier crude from Kurdistan would attract a lower price, even without the discount. Many analysts had speculated the discount was much larger. The KRG has been tight-lipped about its oil deals because of their commercial sensitivity. But it also is involved in a dispute with Baghdad, which has withheld the KRG’s 17 per cent share of budgetary revenues for several months. The Kurds have given a three-month deadline to the new Iraqi government formed last month to resolve these issues but it has not said what it would do if they are not. In an interview with the Middle East Economic Survey earlier this month, Dodds said MOL was negotiating a long-term agreement to buy Kurdish crude. He declined to say at what price the KRG sold the 600,000 barrels to MOL earlier this year. “For MOL upstream as a whole, we are looking to increase the size of our upstream portfolio,” he said. “Kurdistan is important to us and if the opportunity to add to our portfolio comes at the right price, we will do it.” In August, the KRG reportedly started to allow foreign operators to market their entitlement of equity oil directly, which would help them to recoup their losses and perhaps offset the legal threat to the KRG from Baghdad. “What’s been put on the table is that there needs to be a decision on who markets the crude from the licence areas,” Dodds said in the interview. “That’s yet to be closed.” Baghdad made only a small protest against MOL when it bought the Kurdish oil, he said. “There was some arm-waving and a formal letter [from Baghdad] sent to us but no repercussions.” China is also reportedly keen to become a regular purchaser. US companies were likely to remain cautious about buying Kurdish oil but European and Asian buyers would be tempted by its competitive price, Carl Larry, a former oil trader who runs Oil Outlooks & Opinions, a research firm in Houston, told Rudaw. “In the US, the oil price is generally four to five times lower than the global price so the Kurds have a good chance to sell in Europe and Asia,” he said. Lawyers for Iraq’s Oil Ministry have until November 13 to convince an American judge not to throw out its case to prevent the KRG from selling crude in the US via the United Kalavrvta. The tanker has been moored in international waters near the port of Galveston, Texas, since July, when Baghdad filed lawsuits to halt the delivery. The KRG official said keeping the tanker off the US coast for months would be worth the millions in charter costs if a legal precedent was set against Baghdad. Basil Karatzas of Karatzas Marine Advisors & Co, a ship broker in New York, told Rudaw it would make more commercial sense to turn the ship around to Asia. “I think there will be better prospects for selling the oil to someone who will not ask many questions. I suppose with the Kalavryta staying off the US, they are trying to exhaust legal remedies and create a beachfront for selling additional cargoes once there is a decision or court order allowing for sale in the US,” he said. “The US is flooded with domestic oil so I think it doesn’t make any commercial sense chasing this market. But I suppose setting a legal precedent is very important to the sellers.” Larry of Oil Outlooks & Opinions said he believed Baghdad would raise the issue of independent Kurdish exports at next month’s Vienna meeting of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, at which the recent slide in the oil price will dominate. “Aside from quotas, Iraq might well want to draw attention to [what it calls] illegal crude sales by the Kurds,” he said. A total of 19.2 million barrels of oil have been exported via Ceyhan, Turkish officials have said, and around $400 million has been deposited with Turkish state lender Halkbank as a result, Reuters reported this week. http://rudaw.net/english/kurdistan/301020142 |
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| ALAN | Oct 31 14, 11:52 Post #1709 |
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Comment on the above article
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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 | Nov 2 14, 10:40 Post #1710 |
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http://rudaw.net/Embed.aspx?ID=40997 |
| 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 | Nov 2 14, 1:34 Post #1711 |
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Ashti Hawrami Kurdish oil minister: "SOMO won't come to Kurdistan" http://rudaw.net/mobile/sorani/business/011120143
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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 | Nov 3 14, 2:04 Post #1712 |
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Rudaw: "SOMO is opening its office in Kurdistan?" KRG PM "there is no such thing we have not made any decisions on that matter" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cef2Rx5Q-14
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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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| SIMBER | Nov 3 14, 2:13 Post #1713 |
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KRG PM: #Baghdad's excuse to cut KRG budget was due to alleged sale of oil by #Kurdistan Region independently.But that's baseless. After the cutting of the budget by Baghdad, #KRG started selling oil. |
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| ALAN | Nov 3 14, 6:17 Post #1714 |
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Havana is Kirkuk oil structure that stretches into Makhmur but Bai Hassan is in Kirkuk formerly under NOC... We finally got back Kirkuks oil it was been stolen for 80 years from us... |
| 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 | Nov 3 14, 7:23 Post #1715 |
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so that means most of Kirkuks oil is under our control? |
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| ALAN | Nov 3 14, 10:34 Post #1716 |
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Yup, Bai Hassan and Baba Gur Gur was under North oil company which was first established in the 1920s but 90 years later KURDS take back control of their stolen oil fields by Iraqis.... Thanks to Peshmerga
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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 | Nov 5 14, 2:51 Post #1717 |
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That also explains how KRG will soon be able to export 700,000 bpd
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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 | Nov 5 14, 2:55 Post #1718 |
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Damn, those oil-billions will come tho
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| ALAN | Nov 9 14, 11:34 Post #1719 |
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KRG has started exporting Kirkuk's Havana and Bai Hassan oil fields via it's national pipeline. KRG has taken over the North Oil Company and all of the 790 employees were sent home. KRG has brought in its own paid employees and experts to the NOC office in Kirkuk. The move came when Peshmerga forces few months ago took over the oil fields when Iraqi army fled it's positions when ISIS swept into iraqi Sunni cities. http://wishe.net/dreja.aspx?=hewal&jmare=5424&Jor=1 |
| 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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| Alasha | Nov 10 14, 5:40 Post #1720 |
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Like a boss
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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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| ALAN | Nov 10 14, 12:17 Post #1721 |
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It's ours it's been stolen from us for 90 + years, NO MORE... Iraqis were crying about Kurdistan taking Basrah oil but they weren't crying for stealing Kirkuk oil, now that we have Kirkuk we don't need iraq and its never ending chaos each man to his own 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 | Nov 11 14, 2:23 Post #1722 |
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Energy company shares up on positive news from Kurdistan![]() Genel's Kurdish operations. Credit: Genel Energy By Sharmila Devi Hewlêr, Kurdistan Region - Oil companies focused on production in South Kurdistan saw their share prices rise in Europe on Monday amid speculation that Hewlêr was on the verge of a deal to export up to 10 per cent of Turkey’s gas needs. The companies were also benefiting from the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) announcement last Friday that it would make an initial payment of around $75 million to oil producers and that it intended to make regular payments in the future. Hewlêr and Ankara agreed an “historic” comprehensive package of deals including a second oil pipeline and a gas route from Kurdistan to Turkey, Reuters reported in early November. Under the agreement, the KRG will sell gas to Turkey at the low price of $6-$7 per 1,000 cubic feet (mcf), which is “attractive for Turkey given current purchase prices of as much as $12-$14 mcf,” said an analysts’ note written by Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BoAML). It was issued last week but widely reported in European newspapers on Monday. London-listed Genel Energy, headed by former BP chief Tony Hayward, was seen as benefiting from the Kurdish-Turkish gas deal because it could enter into a gas offtake agreement, in which it would agree to sell a portion of its future production in the region. Genel, which saw its share price rise by 12 per cent at one point on Monday, has almost 40 per cent of its assets in Kurdistan in the form of the Miran and Bina Bawi gas fields. The company refused to comment on the BoAML note. Analysts expect it to disclose more details about its gas business when it releases a trading update on Thursday. Investment bank UBS upgraded its recommendation for Genel in the wake of the KRG’s payments announcement from “neutral” to “buy”, saying that “oil and money [are] both flowing” in Kurdistan. The bank said it had worried that a “significant strain” on KRG finances posed by humanitarian and defence issues could have resulted in further delay of payments. “The payments loop has closed quicker than expected,” the bank said. “Record production levels confirm contractors are making good operational progress on the ground, notwithstanding the political and security situation in the wider region.” The KRG has exported oil valued at $2.87 billion in cash and bartered goods so far this year via trucks and a pipeline. Under their production-sharing agreements, companies had barely received any payments until the $75 million announced on Friday. Gulf Keystone had said publicly it would stop infrastructure investment. After the payments announcement, John Gerstenlauer, the company’s chief executive, said: “With a regular payment cycle, we look forward to moving forward with our stated ramp up in production from our Shaikan field [in Kurdistan].” Gulf Keystone shares rose by around 9 per cent. DNO, a Norwegian oil company, saw its share price jump by about 13 per cent. http://rudaw.net/english/business/10112014 |
| 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 | Nov 11 14, 1:41 Post #1723 |
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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 | Nov 12 14, 9:01 Post #1724 |
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#Kurdistan's premier warns the region would not hand oil control to #Iraq, adding that oil can not be exported from #Kirkuk without Kurdistan involvement. |
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| ALAN | Nov 12 14, 11:18 Post #1725 |
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Kirkuk oil is ours let iraq have their Basrah oil, our border is Hamreen its been drawn between us and IS iraq has no say in it no more. |
| 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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