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South Kurdistan oil & gas development
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KRG pays DNO, Genel Energy over $39 million for May oil deliveries

SULAIMANI — Norwegian oil and gas company DNO said on Thursday (June 23) it has received a payment of $24.28 million USD from the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG).

DNO issued a statement announcing the $24.28 million was a second payment for oil exports during the month of May, 2016.

The KRG made a payment earlier this week of $15 million to DNO partner Genel Energy for oil exports, completing a total invoiced amount for May of $39.28 million.

DNO said that total invoiced amount of $39.28 million includes $32.95 million in monthly entitlement for crude exports and $6.34 million towards recovery of outstanding receivables for past deliveries.

DNO received the payment for crude oil delievers from the Tawke oil field.

Gulf Keystone announced on June 2 they had received another $7 million from the KRG as payment for April.

Norwegian oil and gas company DNO ASA announced on June 1 that the KRG paid DNO ASA and partner Genel Energy $16.3 million for crude oil deliveries in April from the Tawke field in the Duhok Governorate.

The statement from DNO added the payment completed the total invoiced amount for the month of April with the previous $16 million payment on May 27.

The KRG has struggled in the past to make regular payments to international oil companies (IOCs) operating in the region due to the slump in global oil prices, although it continues to make monthly payments.

http://www.nrttv.com/EN/Details.aspx?Jimare=8535
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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Yup PDK policy was a big failure to depend solely on turk tards, I use to think PDK was good on oil affairs i take that statement back...

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Southern Kurdistan’s oil to flow to Iran instead of Turkey

Zengene spoke on a television network and said the 50 year oil agreement with Turkey was not beneficial for the Kurds and that the agreement with Iran would be signed in the first week of July.

THE AGREEMENT WILL BE SIGNED IN TEHRAN

The Deputy Minister shared details of the agreement and said the building of the pipeline will start following the signing with the aid of the Iranian state and 250,000 barrels of oil will flow from Southern Kurdistan to Iran. According to Zengene’s statement, the oil from Kirkuk will flow into Iran through Eastern Kurdistan’s Kermanshah city.

Southern Kurdistan’s Tehran Envoy Nazem Dabbagh declared that the agreement will be signed in Tehran.

THE AGREEMENT WILL HAVE SERIOUS IMPLICATIONS

Meanwhile, with the agreement going into action, the flow of 500,000 barrels of oil distributed to the world through Turkey from Southern Kurdistan will be severely impacted. It is presumed that the oil flow in the Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline will drop after this agreement.

Source: Firat News Agency
http://www.kurdishinfo.com/southern-kurdistans-oil-flow-iran-instead-turkey
Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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Turkey benefits from SK oil more than SK citizens

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yqA8QXvfWo
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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Norwegian oil company receives $30m payment from Kurdistan

Hewlêr, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan24) – A Norwegian operator for oil and gas announced on Monday that they had received USD $30 million from the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) as payment for delivering crude oil to markets in June.

DNO, a Norwegian oil company, stated that after delivering the Kurdistan Region oil to export markets, they had received their payment for June 2016.

The oil company reported, “the receipt of $30 million from the [KRG] as partial payment to DNO and partner Genel Energy plc for June crude oil deliveries to the export markets from the Tawke field.”

“The total invoiced amount for June is $38.41 million, of which $32.21 million comprises the monthly entitlement and $6.19 million is towards the recovery of outstanding receivables for past deliveries,” read the DNO statement.

According to DNO, Tawke production in June averaged 114,384 barrels of oil per day (bpd), and 113,601 bpd were earmarked for export.

DNO is a Norwegian oil and gas operator that runs in the Middle East and North Africa. The company was founded in 1971 and was listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange.

The oil company holds stakes in onshore and offshore licenses at various stages of exploration, development, and production in Kurdistan, Yemen, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Tunisia, and Somaliland.

Moreover, Turkish Genel Energy plc also confirmed the receipt of payment by DNO.

“The payments will be shared pro-rata by DNO and Genel,” according to Genel Energy.

Genel Energy is an independent oil and gas exploration and production company listed on the main market of the London Stock Exchange (LSE: GENL). The headquarters is based in London, and they have offices in Ankara and Hewlêr.

Recently, the KRG’s Ministry of Natural Resources released the monthly oil production and export revenue report for July.

According to the report, the KRG exported 14,176,761 barrels of crude oil in total during July, an average of 457,314 barrels a day.

The report added that the KRG revenue from the oil sale via the Kurdistan pipeline network to the port of Ceyhan in Turkey was $461 million compared to $561 million from the oil exports in June.

http://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/6ef9a8d7-cb53-4407-9f92-dd1e9b1db9ab/Norwegian-oil-company-receives--30m-payment-from-Kurdistan
Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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Iraq resumes pumping oil through Kurdistan pipeline

Posted on August 19, 2016 by Editorial Staff in Economy, Oil & Gas

BAGHDAD,— Iraq has resumed pumping oil from fields operated by state-run North Oil Company (NOC) via a Kurdish pipeline to Turkey, a spokesman for the oil ministry in Baghdad said on Thursday.

About 70,000 barrels per day (bpd) are being pumped through the pipeline controlled by the Kurdistan regional authorities, spokesman Asim Jihad told Reuters, giving no further details.

Pumping stopped in March due to a dispute between the government in Baghdad and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) over the control of Kurdish oil exports.

The resumption of crude flows through the Kurdish pipeline should ease the financial burden on the Kurdish government that was hard hit by the collapse of oil prices two years ago.

Kurdish officials in February warned that the economic crisis could increase desertions from their Peshmerga fighters that battling Islamic State group which controls vast swathes of territory just west of their region.

The new oil minister in Baghdad, Jabar Ali al-Luaibi, expressed optimism on the day of his appointment on Monday that the problem with the Kurds could be resolved.

The KRG said on Wednesday it is ready to resume talks with the Iraqi government to reach a consensus on the issue of oil. KRG Spokesman Safeen Dizayee said he welcomed remarks from the new Iraqi minister of oil.

Kurdish forces took full control of the long-disputed Kirkuk and its oilfields in June 2014 after the Iraqi army’s northern divisions disintegrated in the face of Islamic State’s advance.

The Peshmerga and the Iraqi army have taken back territory from the militants in KRG and are preparing the final onslaught on their capital Mosul, with the backing of a U.S.-led international coalition. Iranian-backed Iraqi Shi’ite militias are also fighting Islamic State near the Kirkuk fields.

Former oil minister Adel Abdul Mahdi in March demanded that the Kurds return to a previous oil agreement or sign a new agreement in order to resume pumping through their pipeline.

The previous agreement provided for the KRG to transfer to Iraq’s central state oil marketing company 550,000 bpd produced in their region, in return for a 17 percent share in the federal budget. The Kurds stopped oil transfers to the government last year, at which point they also stopped receiving federal funds.

OPEC’s second-largest crude producer after Saudi Arabia, Iraq produces 4.6 million bpd, of which about 500,000 bpd from the Kurdish region and the rest from the oil-rich south.

In comments on Thursday, Luaibi said he would focus on increasing the nation’s oil and natural gas output and also develop its refining capacity in order to cut its fuel imports bill, the ministry said in a statement.

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http://ekurd.net/iraq-oil-kurdistan-pipeline-2016-08-19
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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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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Kurdistan, Iraq jointly export Kirkuk oil again

Posted on September 2, 2016 by Editorial Staff in Economy, Oil & Gas

LONDON,— Iraqi state oil firm SOMO and Iraq’s semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan have begun jointly exporting crude from the giant Kirkuk oilfield again after cutting a preliminary deal on revenue-sharing, trading sources said on Thursday.

The development signals a breakthrough in relations between Baghdad and Hewlêr, which have been disputing how to share oil and budget revenues for several years amid fiscal problems on both sides and their fight against Islamic State militants.

The Kirkuk flows, usually amounting to 150,000 barrels per day and exported via the Turkish Mediterranean port of Ceyhan, had been suspended since March as Baghdad pushed Kurdistan to cut a new deal.

Before March, Kirkuk flows were unilaterally handled by Kurdistan. SOMO, the State Oil Marketing Organisation, had seen no cargoes exported on its behalf from Ceyhan since mid-2015, when Kurdistan began independent sales of its own crude and Kirkuk oil.

“Shipments on behalf of SOMO have resumed as of six o’clock this morning … While final details of the revenue-sharing deal are still being worked out, the current flows of Kirkuk are being split 50/50 between SOMO and Kurdistan,” one shipping source familiar with the operations said.

Besides Kirkuk, Kurdistan produces around 500,000 barrels per day of crude from its own fields and those will still be marketed independently by the semi-autonomous region.

But the compromise over Kirkuk could be the first step towards a comprehensive deal involving all Kurdish oil.

Baghdad has insisted SOMO is the only entity that can market Iraqi crude. Kurdistan started independent exports after accusing Baghdad of not respecting a previous revenue-sharing deal and not transferring enough money from the federal budget.

Baghdad, which exports most of its oil from the Gulf, has said Hewlêr was not exporting enough crude under that deal.

FIRST COMPROMISE

Kurdistan urgently needed Kirkuk flows to resume because its own exports do not cover its budget needs, forcing the region to borrow billions of dollars from Turkey, oil firms and trading houses guaranteed by future oil sales.

Lost revenues from the halt in Kirkuk flows had been estimated at more than $1 billion since March.

Last week, Baghdad said that if a new revenue deal were not reached, oil from Kirkuk could be exported by truck via Iran. This week, SOMO blacklisted three ships involved in exporting Kurdish oil.

However, a meeting between Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and Nechirvan Barzani, prime minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government, seems to have broken the ice this week with a preliminary deal reached on Kirkuk oil.

The trading source said final details on how to split the Kirkuk flows could be worked out by mid-September.

Ezat Sabir, head of the Finance Committee in the Kurdish Council of Ministers, said his understanding was that the 50/50 split of Kirkuk oil would remain until the year-end, after which Baghdad and Hewlêr would try to return to full revenue-sharing.

Hewlêr has said it was ready to hand over all oil exports to SOMO if Baghdad agreed to transfer $1 billion to Hewlêr from the federal budget each month.

By Dmitry Zhdannikov
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http://ekurd.net/kurdistan-jointly-kirkuk-oil-2016-09-02
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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Ive predicted this ages ago. PDK has been incompetent and unfair in the oil revenue sharing among the SK provinces in sharing a fair budget balance between zones PDK controls as opposed to other zones controlled by PUK/Gorran...

Senior PUK member threatens to block oil exports from Kirkuk

12 hours ago

SULAIMANI — A senior leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Hero Ibrahim Ahmed, criticized a revenue sharing agreement recently reached between Baghdad and Hewlêr in a letter sent to the Iraqi Prime Minister, threatening a halt to the flow of Kirkuk oil via pipeline.

In a letter released by PUK official media on Wednesday (September 7), Ahmed criticized the agreement for its lack of transparency and said it was made without consultation with her party. Besides threatening to suspend the oil flow, she denied any role in attempts to export Kirkuk oil through Iran.

“A decision by the federal government to transfer 100,000 barrels of oil per day (bpd) through the Kurdistan Region’s pipelines from Kirkuk oil fields is unfair toward the people of Kirkuk,” Ahmed said, cited by PUK media.

“The revenue of transferred Kirkuk oil is not spent transparently and fairly in the Kurdistan Region, and such a decision exiled the Kirkuk Governorate from petrodollar payments and caused a negative impact on the people’s livelihood,” the letter which was released by the PUK’s foreign relations center, continued.

Ahmed refuted news released on August 30 by Asharq al-Awsat, which claimed she demanded the transfer of Kirkuk oil to Iran via tankers.

“I urge you to respond positively to this letter,” the statement said. “Otherwise you leave us no choice but to turn to another path, which would be to stop the flow of Kirkuk oil, since we are under pressure from the public and general opinion in the Kurdistan Region and Kirkuk.”

On August 29, Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani and Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi came to an agreement to transfer 100,000 bpd from Kirkuk oil fields via the region’s pipelines to provide the region with its budget share.

Officials from the KRG and Baghdad signed a revenue-sharing agreement in December 2014 which would have the Iraqi federal government provide the KRG with 17 percent of the federal budget in return for oil exports amounting to 550,000 bpd.

That deal collapsed months later when the KRG ceased transfers to the Iraqi State Oil Marketing Organization (SOMO) altogether. Baghdad in turn stopped transfers of budget payments.

http://www.nrttv.com/EN/Details.aspx?Jimare=9885
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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Kirkuk is Kurdish will remain Kurdish, and its now under control of Kurds and Peshmerga, you can't control it with a remote control from Baghdad Baha

Iraqi Oil Ministry: ‘We will control all Kirkuk oil fields’

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Hewlêr, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan24) – The Iraqi Oil Ministry on Friday denied a new oil agreement between Baghdad and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG).

In a statement by the Ministry of Oil, the department dismissed any new agreement signed between Hewlêr and Baghdad.

“The previous oil agreement [between the KRG and the Iraqi government] is still in effect,” the statement read.

On Wednesday, Hero Ibrahim Ahmed, a member of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) Political Bureau, and wife of former Iraqi President Jalal Talabani asked Iraqi PM Haider al-Abadi to stop the exportation of Kirkuk oil via Kurdistan pipelines.

Ahmed sent an official letter to Abadi to “explain the position of the PUK” on the Erbil-Baghdad deal to export Kirkuk oil jointly.

The deal is split evenly where the KRG exports 50 percent and Baghdad exports 50 percent via the Kurdistan Region pipeline to Turkey’s Ceyhan port.

“The ministry tried to restore control over the administration of all other oil fields in Kirkuk which was under the charge of the government-owned North Oil Company (NOC) before IS entered Iraq,” the Ministry added.

The report mentioned the oil exports from Kirkuk oil fields were halted due to attacks on the pipeline in Turkey.

“With the continuous halt of the oil exports, the NOC was forced to reinject the Kirkuk oil to the fields,” the statement continued.

The Ministry added the reinjection of oil has been costly for the government as the company was covering the operational expenditure.

“The restoration of the oil exports to Ceyhan port will provide more revenues for the government, Kirkuk’s petrodollar, and the company’s operational expense,” the statement concluded.

On Aug. 29, the KRG and the Iraqi government agreed to jointly export Kirkuk oil via the Kurdistan Region pipelines to Turkey with both sides allocating Kirkuk’s financial dues.

Editing by Karzan Sulaivany
http://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/b772632a-f2c2-464a-b973-a50a0a347def/Iraqi-Oil-Ministry--%E2%80%98We-will-control-all-Kirkuk-oil-fields%E2%80%99
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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5 September 2016

Hewlêr, Kurdistan Region, Iraq (mnr.krg.org) - The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) today publishes the monthly oil production and export revenue overview for August 2016. Please click here to view or download the overview.

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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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Alanj you still support KRG oil sales?

https://www.facebook.com/naliatv/videos/1271493396230059/

I sure am against looting Kurdish people's rightful resources by PDK and PUK.
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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KRG earned net $416.5mn in October oil sales

Hewlêr, Kurdistan Region – The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) earned a net income of $416.5 million from oil sales in October, the region’s Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) announced in its monthly report released on Thursday.

The gross value for oil sales in October was $636.36 million, of which $74.56 million was allocated to the producing oil companies, $153.8 million went towards past payments to buyers, and $44.87 million went to Kirkuk, electricity costs and “other payments.”

Kirkuk province receives a share of the oil sales from the oil produced in its fields.

Contributing to the October revenues is a total of $53.39 million in prepayments against future exploitation of crude oil.

The Ministry exported a daily average of 540,857 barrels (bbls), for a monthly total of 16,766,563 bbls to Turkey’s Ceyhan port.

It also exported a total of 1.5 million bbls from the Iraqi North Oil Company’s Kirkuk oil fields.

Baghdad and Hewlêr agreed to work jointly to export and sell oil produced in Kirkuk and share the revenues following a visit headed by Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani to Baghdad to meet with his counterpart Haider al-Abadi in August.

Some of the oil produced, 1.67 million bbls, was refined locally at the Kalak and Bazian refineries for local consumption, the MNR reported.

Oil revenue “plus other income generated locally” by the ministry was received by the KRG to pay the monthly salaries of its employees, the MNR reported.

The KRG has said the ongoing war with ISIS, the influx of nearly 2 million refugees and internally displaced Iraqis, and Baghdad’s freezing of the Hewlêr’s budget since February 2014, combined with low oil prices has made it difficult to pay the salaries of public servants. Public salaries are often delayed and not paid in full.

Oil is the only major source of revenue for the Kurdistan Region. The MNR said it sold a barrel of oil for an average of $39.32 in October.

http://rudaw.net/english/kurdistan/101120164
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Alasha and Alanj, honestly, do you still believe in your expired president to declare a Kurdish state? do you still think the protesters were traitors for calling to be paid by Baghdad?

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KRG TO EXPORT 550,000 BPD THROUGH SOMO, IN IRAQ 2017 BUDGET TERMS

SULAIMANI – The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) is committed to exporting 550,000 barrels of oil per day (bdp) through the Iraqi State Organization for Marketing Oil (SOMO) according to terms set out in Iraq’s 2017 budget.

NRT correspondent Omed Mohammed said the Iraqi parliament voted on the 2017 state budget on Sunday (December 4) and has approved 32 articles to the budget bill.

Articles 8, 9 and 10 in the Iraqi 2017 budget are related to the Kurdistan Region, Kurdish employees’ payment, and the Peshmerga forces.

Mohammed added that projects by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), Change Movement (Gorran) and Kurdistan Islamic Group (KIG) in the budget were also approved.

The NRT correspondent also noted that the KRG was committed to compensating the employees of the Kurdistan Region and to annulling the austerity measure of withholding salaries.

“The KRG is committed to exporting 250,000 barrels of Kurdistan Region’s oil and 300,000 barrels of Kirkuk oil through SOMO,” Mohammed said.

The NRT correspondent also said the Iraqi government is supposed to send the salary of 650,000 employees of the Kurdistan Region to the KRG.

Regarding payments for Peshmerga forces, Mohammed said the Peshmerga salary will be paid with cooperation between the Iraqi Defense Minister and Peshmerga Ministry.

“The 17% budget share of the Kurdistan Region is also settled in the budget,” Mohammed continued.

As the Iraqi parliament was voting on the budget bill, the KRG released a statement calling for revision on the articles, as the requirements of the Kurdistan Region have not yet been fulfilled.

“However, the Kurdistan Region is not obliged to follow [the articles],” the statement read.

The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) members in the Iraqi parliament left the parliament session to vote on the budget bill following the KRG’s statement.

Head of the KDP bloc, Khasraw Goran, said the requirements of the people of the Kurdistan Region have not been secured in the 2017 budget bill.

The KRG has faced a financial crisis since a dispute with Baghdad in early 2014 saw its share of the Iraqi federal budget withheld.

Salaries for KRG workers have been plagued by delays since 2014 and Kurdish authorities have repeatedly said they cannot make payments due to a number of crises affecting the region.

(NRT)

http://www.nrttv.com/EN/Details.aspx?Jimare=11332
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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Kurdistan oil was stripped and raped by turkey's AKP helped by its Parner the PDK...

South Kurdistan oil a slippery issue

Posted January 6, 2017

Iran and Turkey are trying to extend their economic influence over South Kurdistan oil, even as controversy flares over surreptitious deals between Kurdistan and Turkey.

South Kurdistan has been shipping oil to Turkey without Baghdad's knowledge, resulting in Iraq violating an OPEC agreement, according to accusations leveled Jan. 3 by Iraq's prime minister. Also, Iraq recently confirmed that a Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) minister had offered to sell oil fields to Turkey for $5 billion, again without consulting Baghdad.

Meanwhile, Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh plans to visit Iraqi Oil Minister Jabbar al-Luaibi next week to discuss cooperative projects related to oil and gas. Chief among these is the establishment of an oil pipeline from the province of Sulaimani in South Kurdistan to Iranian territory.

Such a project would almost completely end the oil export monopoly of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), which is led by KRG President Massoud Barzani. The oil is now carried through Turkey, which has close strategic relations with Barzani's party.

Nazim Dabbagh, South Kurdistan's representative in Tehran, told Rudaw media network that Zanganeh's visit to Iraq "comes within the framework of Iran's attempts to link the oil of Kirkuk, the Kurdistan Region and all of Iraq to Iran, in order [for it] to be exported through Iranian territory.”

South Kurdistan's oil is one of the main topics of contention between the Kurdistan Region and Baghdad on one hand, and among Kurdish political parties on the other. Critics say Barzani's KDP, which controls the KRG, based in Hewlêr, is using money from oil and gas toward achieving its separatist goal. Some other parties oppose separatism, fearing the KDP will control Kurdish wealth and, consequently, monopolize power in South Kurdistan.

The Kurdish differences, most notably over the oil export issue, have raised the idea of dividing the Kurdistan Region and declaring another Kurdish province that would include Sulaimani , Halabja, Kirkuk and Khanaqin, which would limit Barzani’s authority to a small province with no effect. The idea was proposed by Kirkuk Gov. Najmaldin Karim, who is a leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) political movement in Iraq.

The KRG is dealing with the oil and gas issue as a domestic one that involves Kurds alone, without Baghdad, and it holds international conferences that call for international investments. Meanwhile, it is concluding contracts with companies without Baghdad. The Kurdistan-Iraq Oil & Gas Conference took place Dec. 5-7 in London under the auspices of South Kurdistan and with the participation of Kurdish officials including Minister of Natural Resources Ashti Hawrami and a large number of representatives of international oil companies. Organizers say the conference was the largest international meeting ever held regarding South Kurdistan's oil and gas sector.

Meanwhile, Turkey is taking advantage of its strategic relationship with the KDP and has offered the possibility of exporting Iraqi oil from the Kurdistan Region through Turkey without agreements between Baghdad and Hewlêr. Article 111 of the Iraqi Constitution affirms that “oil and gas are owned by all the people of Iraq in all the regions and governorates.”

Iraq's 2017 budget, which was adopted Dec. 7, obliges South Kurdistan to export 550,000 barrels per day total from its oil fields, including the oil of Kirkuk province, exclusively through the transnational State Oil Marketing Organization. The revenues, according to the budget, should go to the federal public treasury.

However, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Jan. 3 accused the KRG of exporting larger oil quantities via Turkey without the knowledge of Baghdad, which led Iraq to violate its OPEC obligations to cut total output by 200,000 barrels per day. During the month of November alone, the KRG exported 587,646 barrels per day through Turkey without any coordination with Baghdad, Abadi said.

The strategic relationship between Turkey and Barzani's KDP is a subject for debate among the anti-Barzani parties, especially the PUK and the Movement for Change (Gorran), whose parliamentarian Serwa Abdul Wahid called Sept. 25 on the KRG to return to Iraq instead of resorting to Turkey, adding that “the KRG had previously tried Turkey but reaped no benefit.”

Abdul Wahid said in December that financial, commercial and oil transactions made under the Barzani's supervision lack transparency.

Hoshyar Abdullah, head of the parliamentary bloc of change, had previously accused Barzani's KDP of exporting 1 million oil barrels per day through Turkey, knowing that the export revenue destinations have yet to be revealed.

PUK leader Hero Ahmed sent a letter to Abadi in September calling on Abadi to prevent South Kurdistan from exporting oil due to its failure to follow “the principles of transparency and fairness when it comes to oil in the region.”

Ares Abdullah, a PUK parliament member and chairman of the parliamentary oil and energy bloc, in February accused the KDP of exporting 400,000 oil barrels from Kirkuk while only handing over the revenues from 20,000 barrels to the government coffers.

Also, WikiLeaks published secret documents a year ago about the existence of a deal between the KRG and Turkey to sell oil fields to Turkey in exchange for $5 billion. Muhsin al-Sadoun, a leader in Barzani's KDP, just confirmed in a Dec. 29 interview with Al-Baghdadia News that “Minister of Natural Resources in Kurdistan Ashti Hawrami had previously suggested selling several oil fields in the Kurdistan Region to Turkish Energy Minister Bert Bayrak to repay debt and resolve the financial crisis plaguing the Hewlêr government.” However, the deal was not concluded, according to Sadoun.

The Kurdistan oil issue will remain a card in the hands of Baghdad, Tehran and Ankara to achieve their political goals in South Kurdistan, which means it will remain a key obstacle to the Kurdistan independence project as long as the Kurdish parties fail to conclude a transparent and fair agreement.

http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/01/iran-iraq-turkey-oil-ceyhan-sulaymaniyah-barzani.html
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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Genel Energy begins investment in Kurdistan’s two gas fields

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Miran oil and gas field, Kurdistan Region. (Photo: Genel Energy)

Monday, 13 February 2017

Hewlêr, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan24) – Genel Energy oil and gas company on Monday announced the settlement of an agreement with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to produce natural gas as well as export it to Turkey.

In an official statement, Genel Energy revealed it had “finalized documentation of previously agreed terms of amended and restated production sharing contracts and gas lifting agreements” in the Kurdistan Region.

According to the report, the agreement was part of the 2015 amended deal between the KRG and Genel Energy regarding production sharing and gas lifting for the Miran and Bin Bawi gas fields.

Once the contracts and agreements were confirmed, Genel Energy said they would begin working on the project.

“The company remains committed to developing these large-scale, low-cost, onshore gas fields, which will form the cornerstone of gas exports to Turkey under the 2013 KRG-Turkey gas sales agreement,” the statement continued.

Genel Energy is an Anglo-Turkish exploration and production company operating in the Kurdistan Region’s oil and gas sector for over a decade.

Moreover, the company is set to be an essential provider of gas to Turkey under the KRG-Turkey agreement.

Murat Ozgul, the Chief Executive of Genel Energy, was optimistic about the prospects of the new deal between the KRG, Genel Energy, and Turkey.

“We are determined that 2017 will be a watershed year as we seek to create a gas business that will be transformational for both Genel Energy and the KRG,” Ozgul stated.

The Kurdistan Region has a reserve of 200 trillion cubic meters of natural gas which is three percent of the world’s reserve.

Editing by Karzan Sulaivany

http://www.kurdistan24.net/en/economy/1ea9206d-6e8f-4a02-ab48-efcb8c7aa02a/Genel-Energy-begins-investment-in-Kurdistan%E2%80%99s-two-gas-fields
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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KRG signs pre-financed oil deal with Russia’s Rosneft

Hewlêr, Kurdistan Region – The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has signed a pre-financed contract with Russia’s state oil company Rosneft for the export of Kurdish crude oil.

“This deal represents a new beginning in our relationship with Rosneft and opens up the possibility of a broader relationship in all fields of energy cooperation with Russian Oil company Rosneft within Kurdistan,” the Kurdish Minister of Natural Resources Dr. Ashti Hawrami stated, according to a press release from Rosneft.

Rosneft’s CEO Igor Sechin said his company was looking forward to developing new international markets for Kurdish crude oil.

“The off-take and supply of Kurdish crude oil into Rosneft’s expanding worldwide refining system will further contribute to the increase in its effectiveness,” Sechin said.

According to the November oil production and export report from the KRG, the Region has exported an average of 587,646 barrels of oil per day through Turkey’s Ceyhan port.

The deal with Rosneft is for a two-year period, from 2017 to 2019.

http://www.rudaw.net/mobile/english/business/21022017
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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UPDATE: Kurdish forces enter North Oil Company in Kirkuk

KIRKUK, Kurdistan Region — A Kurdish force entered North Oil Company (NOC) in Kirkuk on Thursday to show Baghdad that Kirkuk’s oil is for its people, a Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) official said.

"Deployment of troops in Kirkuk is to show Baghdad, Kirkuk's oil is for the people of Kirkuk," Aso Mamand, the Head of PUK's office in Kirkuk, said at a press conference on Thursday. "We have deployed troops to prevent Baghdad from exporting Kirkuk’s oil to Mosul and Baghdad. Baghdad wants to export Kirkuk’s oil for the rest of Iraq while our people are in desperate need for it.

"There has been a plot to exploit the people of Kirkuk. What we did today was an expression of the grudge of Kirkuk people against them."

The force has controlled a pump station where extracted oil is stored from the oilfields, and its main purpose of the station is to export it to the Ceyhan port through a pipeline, Rudaw sources reported.

“We will give Baghdad one week to retract its decision to export additional oil from Kirkuk to the rest of Iraq," Mamand said. "If Baghdad does not meet our demands within one week, we will expel North Oil Company’s officials. The Kurdistan Regional Government also [in addition to the Iraqi government] exploits the people of Kirkuk.”

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Unknown forces enter North Oil Company in Kirkuk


A Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) official told Rudaw that the force is of the PUK.

“Last night we had knowledge that the force would be moved and they have done it unilaterally,” said Mohammed Khurshid, head of the KDP branch in Kirkuk, referring to the PUK.

Khurshid added that the PUK officials have informed them that they would withdraw their forces, but did not explain why they moved the force and broke into the place.

Rudaw also contacted Simko Mohammed, spokesperson of the PUK Asayesh (Kurdish security) force to comment, but he also said he did not have knowledge of it.

Ahmed Askari, the head of Kirkuk's Oil, Energy and Industry Committee in the Kirkuk Provincial Council confirmed the news to Rudaw, but did not provide further information.

The reported events come as the Governor of Kirkuk Najmaldin Karim is in the United States and has not yet returned to the city.

“They ordered the shutdown of the pumping station for security reasons and that caused a halt of Kirkuk oil exports to Turkey,” Reuters reported a senior executive from the state-run North Oil Company as saying.

Asim Jihad, spokesperson of the Iraqi oil ministry said he was unaware of the incident.

NOC is a state company within the Ministry of Oil of Iraq. It operates in oil and gas production in Kirkuk, Nineveh, Hewlêr, Baghdad, and Diyala provinces as well as in parts of Hilla and Kut.

Under the terms of the 2014 December agreement between Hewlêr and Baghdad, NOC will export only parts of its oil through Kurdish pipelines to the Turkish Ceyhan port in return for KRG administrating larger portions of the oil production in the province.

In the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) latest visit to Baghdad in 2016, it was agreed that the oil under Baghdad control in Kirkuk would be exported through the Kurdistan Region and half the revenue would go to the region.

In the meantime, Baghdad has said in the past it was committed to abide an OPEC agreement to reduce its oil exportations, including that of Kirkuk.

On Feb. 20, the Iraqi oil ministry announced it signed a memorandum of understanding with Tehran to study the export of part of Kirkuk’s oil through a pipeline to Iran.

Currently, the Kirkuk oil is being exported to the world market through the Ceyhan port in Turkey. Two oilfields in Kirkuk are under the control of the KRG and three are run by Iraq’s the North Oil Company.

The KRG exports 150,000 barrels of oil per day from Bai Hassan and Havana oilfields. The Iraqi government produces a similar number.

http://www.rudaw.net/mobile/english/kurdistan/020320172
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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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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Biji PUK, finally a party doing something about the illicit oil sales and the lack of transparency in our oil sales.
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Kirkuk Suli and Garmyan need to establish their own Govt away from PDK, establish parl PM PRES and army of course all under Kurdistan flag and part of SK. Only then these areas will see their deserved potentials. PDK already has ALL those established in Hawler and Duhok.
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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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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Bloomberg warns about Kurdish parties tensions with Baghdad over Kirkuk’s oil

Bloomberg website has warned about Kurds’ effort to divide the province of Kirkuk from the country and rivalries between the two Kurdish parties of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) over controlling the oil will create new tensions and will even influence on the price of oil internationally.

The website added that the province’s oil is as much as the oil that Norway produces and its oil reserve is more than 9 billion barrels, noting that the province’s daily production is about 500000 barrels but it can produce some 1 million barrels each day.

An Analyst in Aspects Energy Institute, Richard Malinson believes that more tensions are rising as the threat of the terrorist group of the Islamic State (IS) is getting over.

In addition to the tensions and the possible tension between the KDP and the PUK, Baghdad tension with the autonomous northern region of Kurdistan over raising the region’s flag on Kirkuk governmental buildings will possibly leave a negative impact on oil production in the province.

The President of Kardochi Institute, Shwan Zolal, pointed to the fragile coalition between the KDP and the PUK and warned that Baghdad and the Kurdish region as the two sides need the money of the oil they produce and “there is the possibility of a new war after the money is over.”

http://www.kurdpress.com/En/NSite/FullStory/News/?Id=15627
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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Norwegian DNO makes oil discovery on Rojava-Kurdistan border

Hewlêr, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan24) – A Norwegian oil and gas operator on Monday announced the Peshkhabir-2 well drilling in the Kurdistan Region found oil in the southern part of the Peshkhabir oil field.

“The well flowed at a stable rate of 3,800 barrels of 28° API oil per day on a 52/64 choke from an open hole test of a 170-meter interval,” the announcement said.

“Pressure data supported by observations of oil shows from cuttings and side wall cores indicate a Cretaceous oil interval in excess of 300 meters,” the announcement continued.

The company mainly operates in the Tawke oil field located in Duhok Province in the northern Kurdistan Region.

DNO, along with Genel Energy and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), are looking at the possibility of early production at the Peshkhabir oil field.

According to DNO, the drilling in the Peshkhabir-2 well was expected to reach a depth of 3,500 meters and would be completed by early February.

“Pre-spud estimates for drilling, open hole testing of the Cretaceous, and completion stood at USD $17.5 million,” the announcement added.

The company also mentioned they would consider other options to intensify the appraisal on the discovery such as a geological sidetrack in the central part of the Peshkabir structure or a third well.

Executive Chairman of DNO Bijan Mossavar Rahmani stated the company was encouraged by what they had seen so far in the well.

“Certainly, our subsurface and drilling teams have started the year on the right foot,” he expressed.

DNO stated they would publish further details and updates on the discovery after they finished their assessment during Peshkhabir-2 operations.

The company owns a 55 percent working interest in the Tawke license that holds Peshkhabir oil field while Genel Energy has 25 percent and the KRG 20 percent.

The Norwegian DNO mainly operates in the Middle East and North Africa.

It holds stakes in onshore and offshore licenses at various phases of exploration, development, and production in different places such as Kurdistan, Oman, Yemen, the United Arab Emirates, Somaliland, and Tunisia.

http://www.kurdistan24.net/en/economy/a8521424-c85e-4726-abed-4bb9175a6f82/Norwegian-DNO-makes-oil-discovery-on-Rojava-Kurdistan-border
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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START building a new pipeline to Rojava and tell the turks if you talk too much we will cut the oil from you too, but who will do that PDK? LOL

New South Kurdistan oil pipeline to Turkey to be finished in May: officials

HEWLÊR-Erbil, Iraq’s Kurdistan region,— Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) ministry of natural resources, which controlled by Barzani’s KDP party, has been working for the past two months on building a new pipeline to carry Kurdish oil to neighboring Turkey and from there to the world market.

According to Kurdish officials the new pipeline is scheduled to be finished by next month.

The new pipeline that is underway in Shexan locality is planned to connect the Chamanke, Atrush and Shexan oil fields to the national pipeline and from there to the Turkish port of Ceyhan on the Mediterranean.

When accomplished it will be the second pipeline carrying Kurdish oil to the outside world.

At least 35 percent of the project has been finished and the rest is expected to finish on time, according to Sardar Yahya, district governor of Shexan said.

Oil accounts for 95 percent of KRG’s revenues, which justifies a recent surge in investment in the energy and natural resources sector.

Dlshad Shaaban of the natural resources committee in Kurdistan Region’s parliament told Rudaw that the Region currently exports 600,000 barrels of oil per day.

The new oil pipeline is 40 Kilometers long and is expected to increase KRG’s oil export by 75-80,000 barrels a day

Since Baghdad blocked the Kurdish Region’s share of the federal budget in 2014, Hewlêr has been independently exporting oil to the world market so as to finance its government and public sector.

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Abadi admits that the budget and oil disputes between Hewlêr and Baghdad are a major issue that must be put on top of the list of negotiations for a resolution.

“Now, the first thing we need to solve is the oil and from there moving on to the budget and how we treat the budget.” Abadi told Rudaw in a recent interview. “We must reach a law for Iraq’s revenues and how it will be distributed on the Kurdistan Region and the provinces. That needs to be talked about and in a calm atmosphere.”

Kurdistan considered as the most corrupted part of Iraq. According to Kurdish lawmakers billions of dollars are missing from South Kurdistan’s oil revenues.

Many Kurdish politicians and observers believe that many of the oil industry projects in South Kurdistan are conducted in a non-transparent way.

In March the Iraqi Ministry of Oil announced that a lack of access to monitor the Kurdistan Region’s oil production has resulted in the ministry not having any information regarding oil revenue from independent sales undertaken by the regional government.

A Kurdish lawmaker said earlier in March the amount of $1.266 billion from oil exports and South Kurdistan’s revenue has gone missing over the last three months.

Kurdistan Democratic Party leader Massoud Barzani has been accused by critics of amassing huge wealth for his family instead of serving the population. Barzani’s son is the Kurdistan region’s intelligence chief and his nephew Nechirvan Barzani is the prime minister.

http://ekurd.net/kurdistan-oil-pipeline-turkey-2017-04-03
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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Data on Taq Taq oil field reduction

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