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South Kurdistan oil & gas development
Topic Started: Nov 17 12, 1:25 (649,205 Views)
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^^ no thanks to iran's "investments" in our oil sector, let them stick to their southern iraq with their brothers. when they stop persianizing our lovely Kirmashan for its oil then they can come back and talk to us.

no iran hand in our oil sector, maliki can have them all.

in a way im glad Talabani is out of the whole politics, he was a hardcore iran supporter and with him out of the picture now KRG can perform better and reduce Iranian influence over KRG completely, next KRG must work on unifying PDK and PUK into one party and cut iran's nosing into our politics completely. we must have one route (turkey) and one hand in our country not two or three.

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Asked whether Iran agrees with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki’s policies, the Iranian consular said, “We agree with the current policy. Iraq is a new country and it has a successful policy compared to many other Arab states.”
Ok then lol
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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Exxon, Kurdistan visit disputed oil block

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* Qara Hanjer or "black fig" field in disputed area

* Exxon mulling whether to stay at southern oilfield

* Baghdad, Kurdistan have built up rival military posts

By Ahmed Rasheed

ERBIL, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Exxon Mobil and Kurdistan officials visited an oil exploration block caught in a dispute between Baghdad's central government and the autonomous Kurdistan region, and discussed building a camp there, a local official and sources say.

Talks at the Qara Hanjer block between an Exxon executive and a top Kurdistan oil official could provoke Baghdad at a sensitive time for the Arab-led central government and the self-ruled Kurdish enclave in their feud over oil and land rights.

Since it signed for six oil blocks with Kurdistan last year, Exxon has been at the centre of the growing disagreement between Baghdad and Kurdistan that threatens to fracture the OPEC member's uneasy federal union a year after U.S. troops left.

The visit came as Exxon weighs whether to stay or pull out of its huge West Qurna oilfield in the Iraqi south or keep its Kurdistan fields. Iraqi and Kurdish officials have both suggested Exxon will side with them.

The Qara Hansher field, where the meeting took place on Wednesday just north of Kirkuk, sits in the swath of disputed territories, where both regions claim jurisdiction and where Iraqi Arab and Kurdish troops have reinforced positions in a tense standoff since last year.

"In the meeting we discussed the work of Exxon Mobil in Qara Hanjer block and we discussed how to facilitate the company's work," Avesta Sheikh Mohammed, the local Kurdish major of the area. "The Kurdistan Regional Government has all the right to sign oil deals to develop energy resources."

An Iraqi oil official and a Kurdistan oil official confirmed the meeting had taken place to talk over building a camp in the block in the low hills.


No work or drilling has started at the Qara Hansher block - whose name means "black fig" in Kurdish - and the talks were for an initial site, the sources said.

Qara Hanjer shows the complications of working in the disputed territories. Before the 2003 invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein, Qara Hanjer was part of Kirkuk. Baghdad still considers it part of Kirkuk, but the Kurds claimed it as part of their region and the mayor was appointed by the Kurdistan Regional Government.

Baghdad says oil deals signed with Kurdistan are illegal and warned foreign companies they risk losing their agreements in Iraq's southern oilfields if they develop Kurdistan fields. But fields in the disputed territories are more complicated.

Industry sources have said Exxon is considering concessions from Baghdad to keep to stay at the $50 billion West Qurna.

One Iraqi oil official said the U.S. major may be trying to smooth relations with Kurdistan with the block visit after the company's top executive meet last month with Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.

"If Exxon visited the block that does not mean it will actually start upstream operations anytime soon. I think they are comforting the Kurds, saying they won't abandon them," a senior Iraqi oil official said. "Let's not jump to conclusions, let's wait and see."

AUTONOMY AND OIL

Autonomous since 1991 with its own regional government and armed forces, Kurdistan says that the federal constitution enshrines its right to develop its oilfields.

The region is steadily developing more energy autonomy, but still relies on the central government for a share of the national budget from oil revenues.

Since Exxon entered Kurdistan, tensions between Baghdad and Kurdistan have increased, but the U.S. major's move also opened the door for other large foreign companies such as Chevron , France's Total and Russia's Gazprom Neft to sign up.

Chevron recently added a third block to its assets in Kurdistan.

Last year Iraqi national army and Kurdish Peshmerga forces both sent troops to reinforce their rival positions around towns dotted along the disputed territories, including the sensitive ethnically mixed town of Kirkuk.

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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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The region is steadily developing more energy autonomy, but still relies on the central government for a share of the national budget from oil revenues.

well that is what we are trying to do as well, getting rid of this 17% and getting 100% of our oil sales which will be much more higher than tiny 17% :thumbsup:
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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A Peshmerga brigade was stationed there since 2003, and there is a video about from Al Jazeera TV showing Pesh in there, but now Pesh has liberated 7 Kurdish Kirkuki districts as well as the city leaving only south Kerkûk arab majority to maliki militias.

And there is 0 arabs in Qere Henjir so good luck for maliki militia who are like 30 kms away from there and just 5 kms north of them they have the Peshmerga standing in their way.

Exxon will not leave Kurdistan the iraqis are deluded thinking that. iraq is acting as a province of iran and thus US will not deal with such iranian soon to be province as iran has an international embargo on it.

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Qere Henjir is north of Kerkûk by 5-10 kms, its a sub district of Çemçemal and it has been part of Sulaimanî since 1968 when saddam detached it from Kerkûk onto Suli to reduce the Kurdish population of Kerkûk (part of an iraqi arabization of our city) which they still wish to finish off but they cant :order: , iraq thinks with their f16 arriving they can continue arabizing our lands :koko: , even if that is their suicidal plan which will end them up with an international arm embargo, and they wont get any till 2014 which is enough time for us to finish off the talks and determine our border with i-irack, finish our pipelines etc...
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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Gorran MPs are talking positive lately on Kurdistan oil policy

http://www.snnc.co/detail.aspx?id=5538&LinkID=1

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Baghdad rhetoric

Kurdistan and Iraq at odds over signing the oil deals by Kurdistan with super giant oil companies.

In this regard a Gorran MP Dr. Bay yezid in Iraqi parliament told (SNNC), that " according to article 112 of the constitution, any federal region has the right to have its own oil policy including signing oil deals, explorations etc.., on the conditions that the income generated must return to Baghdad and then Baghdad must pay the oil companies operating in that particular region".

he added " however the issue here is, that Baghdad does not want to pay for the oil companies operating in South Kurdistan, and claims that it alone has the right to explore oil".

"Thus Kurdistan has no choice but to export its oil directly to turkey, bypassing any Iraqi oil infrastructure, and in order to get the income directly from Turkey instead so that the KRG can pay the oil companies operating in the region". the MP added to his statement.

Unconstitutional decision

At the moment the international supergiant oil companies are in competition to work in Kurdistan and Iraq, but Baghdad is asking them to choose one side to work in.

The Gorran MP also called this request from Baghdad as unconstitutional noting that "there is no article in the constitution that prevents oil companies to work in two different regions or areas at the same time".
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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^^ good on him really, i couldn't have explained it better myself :cheers:
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 holds Iraq's Baghdad responsibility of losing billions from oil revenues

"We have committed to product and export that amount and we were planning to reach the level of 200 thousand barrels to increase the resources of the Iraqi treasury," explaining that "the federal government has pledged under the agreement to pay all dues on the work of foreign companies operating in Kurdistan amounting to a billion dollar."

Dizayee pointed that "any amount of oil extracted from Kurdistan fields and exported to overseas , has been deposited in the amounts of the central government treasury," noting that "the export process is stopped now due to the negative attitude of the Federal Government, when the government pledges its commitment then there would be no justification to stop pumping oil again. "

The Iraqi Oil Ministry has directed a formal letter to the General Secretariat of the Iraqi Council of Ministers pointing out that due to KRG not committing to its commitment to pump agreed quantities of oil, the loss was an estimated four billion and four hundred million dollars that damaged the Iraqi state treasury in 2012; This amount is likely to rise in 2013 to nine billion dollars if KRG continues to halt its oil exports.

Exxon Mobil and Kurdistan officials visited on Friday an oil exploration block caught in a dispute between Baghdad's central government and the autonomous Kurdistan region, and discussed building a camp there, a local official and sources say.

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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 holds Iraq's Baghdad responsibility of losing billions from oil revenues

"We have committed to product and export that amount and we were planning to reach the level of 200 thousand barrels to increase the resources of the Iraqi treasury," explaining that "the federal government has pledged under the agreement to pay all dues on the work of foreign companies operating in Kurdistan amounting to a billion dollar."

Dizayee pointed that "any amount of oil extracted from Kurdistan fields and exported to overseas , has been deposited in the amounts of the central government treasury," noting that "the export process is stopped now due to the negative attitude of the Federal Government, when the government pledges its commitment then there would be no justification to stop pumping oil again. "

The Iraqi Oil Ministry has directed a formal letter to the General Secretariat of the Iraqi Council of Ministers pointing out that due to KRG not committing to its commitment to pump agreed quantities of oil, the loss was an estimated four billion and four hundred million dollars that damaged the Iraqi state treasury in 2012; This amount is likely to rise in 2013 to nine billion dollars if KRG continues to halt its oil exports.

Exxon Mobil and Kurdistan officials visited on Friday an oil exploration block caught in a dispute between Baghdad's central government and the autonomous Kurdistan region, and discussed building a camp there, a local official and sources say.

Copyright ©, respective author or news agency, shafaaq.com
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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http://www.timesofoman.com/News/Article-7571.aspx

Will Exxon pull out of disputed Iraqi oilfield?

byReuters Saturday, 02 February 2013, 02 . 11 pm

Exxon Mobil and South Kurdistan officials visited an oil exploration block caught in a dispute between Baghdad's central government and the autonomous Kurdish region, and discussed building a camp there, a local official and sources say. Talks at the Qara Hansher block between an Exxon executive and a top Kurdistan oil official could provoke Baghdad at a sensitive time for the Arab-led central government and the self-ruled Kurdish enclave in their feud over oil and land rights. Since it signed for six oil blocks with Kurdistan last year, Exxon has been at the centre of the growing disagreement between Baghdad and Kurdistan that threatens to fracture the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) member's uneasy federal union a year after United States troops left. The visit came as Exxon weighs whether to stay or pull out of its huge West Qurna oilfield in the Iraqi south or keep its Kurdistan fields. Iraqi and Kurdish officials have both suggested Exxon will side with them. The Qara Hansher field, where the meeting took place just north of Kirkuk, sits in the swath of disputed territories, where both regions claim jurisdiction and where Iraqi and Kurdish troops have reinforced positions in a tense standoff since last year. Building a camp "In the meeting we discussed the work of Exxon Mobil in Qara Hansher block and we discussed how to facilitate the company's work," Avesta Sheikh Mohammed, the local Kurdish major of the area. "The Kurdistan Regional Government has all the right to sign oil deals to develop energy resources." An Iraqi oil official and a Kurdistan oil official confirmed the meeting had taken place to talk over building a camp in the block in the low hills. No work or drilling has started at the Qara Hansher block — whose name means 'black fig' in Kurdish — and the talks were for an initial site, the sources said. Qara Hasher shows the complications of working in the disputed territories. Before the 2003 invasion that toppled former Iraqi Saddam Hussein, Qara Hansher was part of Kirkuk. Baghdad still considers it part of Kirkuk, but the Kurds claimed it as part of their region and the mayor was appointed by the Kurdistan regional government. Baghdad says oil deals signed with Kurdistan are illegal and warned foreign companies they risk losing their agreements in Iraq's southern oilfields if they develop Kurdistan fields. But fields in the disputed territories are more complicated. Industry sources have said Exxon is considering concessions from Baghdad to keep to stay at the $50 billion West Qurna. One Iraqi oil official said the United States major may be trying to smooth relations with Kurdistan with the block visit after the company's top executive meet last month with Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki. "If Exxon visited the block that does not mean it will actually start upstream operations anytime soon. I think they are comforting the Kurds, saying they won't abandon them," a senior Iraqi oil official said. Autonomy and oil Autonomous since 1991 with its own regional government and armed forces, Kurdistan says that the federal constitution enshrines its right to develop its oilfields. The region is steadily developing more energy autonomy, but still relies on the central government for a share of the national budget from oil revenues. Since Exxon entered Kurdistan, tensions between Baghdad and Kurdistan have increased, but the United States major's move also opened the door for other large foreign companies such as Chevron, France's Total and Russia's Gazprom Neft to sign up.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbr_Tu_kWSg
"Kurdino! Bibin yek; eger hûn nebin yek, hûn ê herin yek bi yek." - Cigerxwîn.
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why doesnt the ssc thugs make any noise about this? iran smuggling oil from iraqi oil field! oh its ok for iran to steal their oil as iran is "shia" lead government just like theirs, how pathetic ssc thugs are really!

While Baghdad fights Kurds, Iran wins: Exploiting oil potential

August 31, 2012

DIYALA,— Conflicts between the South Kurdistan and Baghdad over oil fields in Diyala has led to slow oil production in these fields. Meanwhile, critics say, Iran is sucking the reservoirs dry and emerging as the big winner in this dispute.

When it comes to the oil fields in Diyala, the only winner in the ongoing dispute between Iraq’s federal government in Baghdad and the authorities in the semi-autonomous South Kurdistan, is Iran.

The Naft Khana oil fields in Diyala province – the first oil fields to be discovered in Iraq, in the early 20th century – are not producing as much as they could and according to some experts, Iraq’s neighbours over the border are pumping them dry instead.

This is because the nearby Naft Shahri oil fields also draw their oil from the same reservoir. And while Naft Khana stands idle, the Iranians are allegedly getting more than their fair share worth of oil out of Naft Shahri, some observers suggest.

While some of the facilities at the Naft Khana oil field were destroyed during the Iraq-Iran war in the 1980s, the hold up in oil production here has more to do with politics.

Naft Khana is located inside one of Iraq’s so-called disputed territories. That is, where there is land that Kurdistan says belongs to Kurdistan but which Baghdad says belongs to Iraq. Article 140, formulated in 2003 to resolve issues with these disputed territories, sets out to remedy the expulsions, the ethnic cleansing and Arabisation undertaken by former Iraqi ruler Saddam Hussein.

These are, firstly, normalization - a return of Kurds and other residents displaced by Arabisation – followed by a census taken to determine the demographic makeup of the province's population and then finally, a referendum to determine the status of disputed territories. Obviously whether a territory is home to mainly Kurds or mainly Arabs will have an effect on who can lay claim to the area.

But so far, the measures outlined in Article 140 have not been implemented and the disagreement between Baghdad and Kurdistan as to who is allowed to do what with local oil fields has only worsened.

The conflict between the two parties was in the spotlight in late 2011 when Baghdad decided to change the oil field’s name from Naft Khana – which means source of oil in Kurdish – to something more “Arab”. The new names include Directorate of Diyala Oilfields and the Central Oil Company. Kurdish activists lobbied to have the names changed back, likening the renaming to previous “Arabisation” policies under Saddam Hussein.

“And Iran has emerged as the main beneficiary of these [Naft Khana] oil fields because of Iraq's failure to resume production,” local governor, Ibrahim Hassan Al-Bajillan, told Niqash.

Current figures indicate that only around 5,000 barrels are being produced per day in the Naft Khana area. Engineers believe this could go up to 16,000 barrels per day; in fact, when Naft Khana was first discovered around 20,000 barrels were being produced per day.

Previously oil was being refined at the nearby Al Wand facilities but these were damaged in the Iraq-Iran war and now oil is trucked to Baghdad and refined there.

Bashtiwan Ahmed, a Kurdish member of Diyala’s state government, said that there had been many attempts to convince the central government to resume oil production and oil refining in the area but that every time the topic was raised, politics had put paid to any developments.

Ahmed said that Iraq’s Deputy Minister for Energy, Hussein al-Shahristani, had actually agreed that building a refinery at the Naft Khana fields was a good idea. However the Ministry of Natural Resources for South Kurdistan had been opposed to any such project, saying that the central government had no right to lay claim to oil in the disputed areas.

Some critics of Baghdad have also implied that the federal government is complicit in the Iranian draining of Iraqi wells because the government is currently led by Shiite Muslim politicians and therefore allied with the Iranian government, a Shiite Muslim-dominated theocracy.

“If oil production was resumed here, Diyala’s needs would be covered,” Ahmed said hopefully.

While Kurdistan’s Ministry of Natural Resources did not respond to Niqash’s enquiries on this issue, politician Daler Mahmoud who sits on the Kurdish government’s natural resources committee, said: “regardless of any of that and of the conflict between the two governments, Iran is the one benefiting from this conflict.”

Mahmoud suggested that the central government and the Kurdish authorities do their best to reach some sort of agreement regarding the Naft Khana fields in order to prevent the Iranians from ongoing exploitation of Iraq’s sovereign natural resources.

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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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an older article but related to oil

Kurds campaign against "Arabized" designations of oil fields in Diyala

Diyala, Sept. 27 (AKnews) - Kurdish activists have launched a campaign against new designations for oil fields and a state-run oil company in Diyala describing the move as "Arabization" practices by the Iraqi authorities.

The campaign called "No to Arabization of Naft Khana" is said to include activists from across the professional groups including academics, engineers, doctors, and employees.

The Iraqi oil ministry decided in recent months to change the names of the oil fields of Naft Khana, one of Iraq's oldest known oil fields, near the mainly Kurdish populated district of Khanaqin in Diyala province, east of Baghdad, and the oil company operating there which holds the same name.

The new designations include Directorate of Diyala Oil Fields and the Central Oil Company for the oil fields and the compnay. The original name, Naft Khana comes from Kurdish and is formed of two words "Naft" and "Khana" which means Source fo Oil.

The launch of the campaign comes after local Kurdish disgruntle failed over the past three months to press on oil ministry from using the new designations. Now they want to be heard by the authorities in South Kurdistan and Baghdad as well.

One of the activists, Rabiaa Abbas told AKnews that the launch of the campaign is a "response to the Arabization policies that the Kurdish areas are subjected to in Diyala province"

The former Iraqi regime under Saddam Hussein widely changed Kurdish names in where is now referred to as "disputed areas" from Kurdish into Arabic and forced Kurdish families from those areas to replaced them by Arabs.

But Abbas believed that "The current Arabization policies are even more powerful than they used to be during the Saddam era in our areas"

The Kurds also accuse the Arabs officials of a "pre-planned transfer" of Kurdish employees from the oil company there so that Arab can replace them.

"This is contrary to the constitution and the values that the Iraqi people, including the Kurds, struggled for... we have felt this policy early since 2003," she said.

"What is happening is an organizaed operation of Arabization to change the demographics of in the disputed areas like Mandali, Saadiya and Jalawla (around Khanaqin),

The disputed areas refer to those areas that stretch from Mosul province through Kirkuk and Salahaddin provinces to parts of Diyala province. The territories are populated by a mix of Kurds, Arabs, and Turkmen and are contested between Baghdad and Erbil.

Kurds believe that those areas are historically part of Kurdistan and therefore should be incorporated into South Kurdistan. Baghdad wants to strengthen its grip on those areas.

Kurdish officials in Diyala province warned last month of an increasing intimidation of the Kurds in the Mandali, Saadiya and Jalawla areas in Diyala. Figures showed that the Kurdish presence in those areas since 2003 had dramatically dropped as insurgents actively targeted Kurdish individuals in bombings and shootings.

Kurdish officials in the province have accused the Iraqi army and police there of not protecting the Kurds. Some officials went so far as accusing the army of helping the insurgent groups to expel the Kurds from those areas.

Reported by Khudr Khallat
RY/AKnews
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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Exxon Mobil - Cat and Mouse Politics
http://www.ekurd.net/mismas/articles/misc2013/2/state6829.htm

why we can never trust iraq and iraqis again

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In 1969; the Ba’athist regime unable to gain any victory militarily against the Kurdish people under the leadership of General Mustafa Barzani, in 1970; the Ba’athist regime leaders Hassan al- Bakr and Saddam Hussein at the helm declared the full fledge autonomy for the Kurdish people, and four years later, not only they broke down their promises to the Kurdish leaders, the Ba’athist regime also persecuted the Kurds and tried to destroy the Kurdish people as a nation to exist in Iraq.

In 2010 Iraqi election the premier was unable decisively to win to form the government in accordance with the Constitution ,he needed supporting partners, the President Massoud Barzani and the other Kurdish leaders backed him up, in return Mr. Maliki promised many goodies to the Kurdish leaders but delivered none.
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 to extend oil pipeline to Turkey: Kurdistan oil Minister Hawrami

PNA - Kurdish minister for natural resources Ashti Hawrami announced that South Kurdistan government KRG is intending to build an oil pipeline for exports to Turkey without waiting any settlement with Baghdad.

In an interview with the BBC, he added that "the Kurdistan region does not need a permission from Baghdad to build its infrastructure, including the oil sector, because the constitution permits so".

"The Kurdish government was preferring to work and coordinate with the central government in oil industry, but the other side does not want to cooperate which made the mission very difficult", he added. He disclosed that 50 oil contracts were signed till now with the Kurdish government. Hawrami added that "there are more international oil companies wish to work and we are planning to increase our exports to one million b/d, which need more companies to work"
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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Afren ponders sales of Kurdistan, oilfields - report

[17:01] 13/Feb/04

PNA - London-listed oil explorer Afren has hired a corporate finance firm to look into selling its oil fields in Kurdistan and east Africa, leaving the group focused on its main assets in Nigeria, The Sunday Times reported.

Interest in both regions has soared after a string of discoveries, the newspaper said, and both China's Sinopec and U.S. oil company Exxon could be interested in buying the assets, which could fetch up to 1 billion pounds ($1.6 billion).

Afren has appointed Steen Associates to look into both a sale and alternative plans, it said.

A spokesman for Afren declined to comment on the report.
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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that is what i am talking about xD . the big boys are in the small ones get out .

it was good doing business with ya but now we must move on to a whole new chapter.

man i cant wait for the proper oil infrastructure to be built in Kurdistan.

1. a massive oil refinery that will refine all oil products.
2. completion of oil and gas pipelines currently u/c connecting big fields to the international market.
3. nationalizing the oil (which will take some time after local kurdistani learn about the oil sector completely)

and which they will since KRG forces the oil companies to employ 90% of local residents
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 ;)

The biggest choose kurdistan over iraq !

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yay :waveflag: yay
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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Feb 5 13, 5:31
yay :waveflag: yay
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Can you try to find more articles about this please, cant find any
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oh god i miss Qere Hencîr :(

Exxon Mobil in Kirkuk for oil exploration

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Qarahanjir sub-district – Photo: Karim Muhammad

Despite the persistent tensions between the central government and Kurdistan Regional Government, of which a part is associated with oil, the KRG is currently attempting to extend its oil industries to Kirkuk.

The administrations of the Qarahanjir sub-district of Kirkuk announced that Exxon Mobil will start oil exploration beginning in March as delegates of the company visited the sub-district for the first time.

The administrator of Qarahanjir, Avesta sheikh Muhammad, told Mada Press “Delegates of Exxon Mobil headed by the company’s public relations officer visited the Qarahanjir sub-district on January 1 to meet the administration staff of the sub-district and for further evaluation of the region.”
“Agreements between the company and the KRG are speculated, as the company will be carrying out oil explorations and extraction in some areas of Kurdistan,” Sheikh Muhammad added.

“We expect the company to start its duties by March in the Qarahanjir, Qadir Karam, and Jabara sub-districts, as the development in the oil industries will further benefit Kirkuk, Kuristan, and Iraq,” he added.

Qarahanjir, which is one of the disputed territories, lies to the north of Kirkuk between the cities of Kirkuk and Sulaimania. The administration staff of the sub-district is appointed by the KRG.

Analysts think that this attempt of the KRG for extending their oil industries in the disputed territories to be a response for the central government, as the Iraqi Minister of Oil Abdulkarim Li’eby has previously announced that they have initial agreements with the British BP company for developing of the Northern Kirkuk oil fields which struggles with a low production output. The announcement sparked fierce reactions by the Kurdish officials, who warned the British company to stay out between the political conflicts between Baghdad and Erbil.

In an interview with the BBC, the Kurdish Minister of Natural Resources, Ashti Hawrami said “The South Kurdistan is in no need for permissions from the central government regarding their financial and economical developments, as the Iraqi constitution has granted Kurdistan all the rights to do so.”

“We are about to build an oil transport pipeline system to Turkey without even telling the central government about it,” Hawrami added.

Kirkuk 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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Her biji Hawrami. :waveflag:
"Kurdino! Bibin yek; eger hûn nebin yek, hûn ê herin yek bi yek." - Cigerxwîn.
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When Will it be finished??
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I hope our government uses the money well for its people and don't put everything in their own pocket.

KRG should give away 5% of the oil money in cash to the citizens.
So 5% of what they earn divided by the number of citizens. So every citizen, babies, elderly etc. should receive an equal amount.

They will export 2 million barrels a day in 2017.

That is 2 x 365 = 730 million barrels a year

x 150 dollars (I am sure oil will cost a lot more by 2017) = around 110 billion

110 billion : 5,5 million KURDISH citizens (so foreigners shouldn't get anything, only CITIZENS of Kurdistan) = 20,000 dollars
: 100 x 5 = 1000 dollars

So every citizen should receive 1000 dollars cash money each year.

So a family with 5 people, 2 parents and 3 children, should receive 5000 dollars.
I think that is a nice amount of money, its just extra besides everything else they do with the oil money (higher salaries, social security, infrastructure, free education, free health care, etc.).

I think that is very reasonable :).
Edited by Worldwar2boy, Feb 6 13, 2:36.
biji kurd u kurdistan !!
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kinematik
Feb 6 13, 2:08
When Will it be finished??
In late this year.
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
Feb 6 13, 3:17
purearch72
Feb 6 13, 2:08
I think 2015, but I'm not 100% sure.
In late this year.
Late 2013 ? Damn quick!

What Do you say about this Alan? Are you for or against and hydrocarbon law?
I think it Will make things alot smoother not to have cry baby maliki beeing angry..


http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/us-warns-on-chaos-disintegration-in-iraq.aspx?pageID=238&nID=40575&NewsCatID=359
Edited by Kinematik, Feb 6 13, 6:58.
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