Specialists: the oil sector faces significant challenges, mainly poor infrastructure

Specialists: the oil sector faces significant challenges, mainly poor infrastructure




14-07-2013 12:41 PM


Baghdad (news) / report / Hussein Faleh / ..After the plans and the oil ministry set about increasing oil production during the next five years, expressed a number of specialists in the field of oil from the difficulty of the arrival of the planned target of his production as a result of the challenges facing the Iraqi oil sector at the current stage, which is so great fear some of the decline in this sector, He stopped exports, especially with the political changes in the countries of the region and the face of some countries to international sanctions, where the remains of the oil sector suffers from many problems, including what is legal and legislative, including what is art كالبنى infrastructure. and they confirmed their talk (of the Agency news) on the importance of overcoming obstacles in order to achieve the goals planned by the Ministry of Oil regarding increased rates of production and export of oil. former oil minister Ibrahim Bahr al-Ulum, called to: rehabilitate constructors own oil Bmnzawmte export and storage to accommodate the quantities planned production and export of oil in the future, noting that the main challenges facing the oil sector, poor infrastructure and lack of legislation the law of oil and gas. Uloum said (of the Agency news): The most important challenges facing the oil sector in Iraq, including relating to the technical side of any system of export, storage and constructors surface being still is qualified to fully absorb large amounts of oil, whether produced or exported. continued: in addition to the political debate between the parliamentary blocs and bilateral differences between the Governments of Arbil and Baghdad led through a lack of legislation, oil and gas law, which is one of the important laws, which helps to organize and develop the oil industry in Iraq, and this is what made Taqtin production and export of Iraqi crude oil is limited and slow. added Bahr al-Ulum: you should think seriously to open more than one port export outside of oil and not rely on implementing the north and south through the move towards Syria to complete the tube Iraqi stretching across to the Mediterranean, as well as to extend the oil pipeline NEW via Jordan, as well as the need for the resumption of negotiations with the Saudi side to revive the tube Iraqi oil that extends across the Kingdom for multiple outlets export of Iraqi oil. said former oil minister to: the existence of a plan of action with the Federal Ministry of Oil current increase Iraq's oil exports from the south to (5) million barrels of oil per day during the next four years, but this amount is needed to outlets export multiple to be absorbed and not port export only one of Basra. either oil expert Hamza jeweler, said: that the work clades Iraqi oil is very difficult at the moment to not having laws facilitate the introduction of Equipment Alambarh experts and human capacity needed to develop oil and gas fields, and this issue impede completion of the projects of oil one way or another. said (of the Agency news): that there are other problems such as infrastructure, institutions and oil installations wrecked, especially after more than 30 years for its work in this area, especially that these facilities are relying in Iraq's imports. continued: and that did not happen where the development or proficient over those years, because Iraq during the past two decades, was languishing under siege and international sanctions have made ​​him unable to import equipment and supplies necessary to rehabilitate those institutions from the fields and pipelines and organizations pumping water and other, all the new developments will depend on such infrastructure. For its part, described the newspaper 'Financial Times' British Iraq as one of the countries that will have a significant contribution in the processing of the global oil market, over the next decade , noting that Iraq's oil industry has achieved remarkable progress recently, and production rates soared thanks to foreign investment, which has pumped money many in the industry. At the same time paper pointed to the existence of significant challenges facing the oil sector in Iraq, and impede the growth process continued in production rates; the most important of the weakness of government institutions and slowness in awarding contracts for infrastructure projects huge with meager incentives granted by decades of investing companies, as well as a deficit of skilled labor, which could lead to the destruction of the industry. said 'Financial Times' to these challenges, other obstacles related to infrastructure for the oil sector, such as a lack of pipelines carrying oil and the weakness of the size of the depots, storage and the limited capacity of pumping stations. while the decision of the Commission on oil and energy MP for the coalition of Kurdish blocs Mohammad Qasim Mchkta, he stressed: the need to extend network new pipelines to transport oil and warehouses large to accommodate the quantities of oil for the purpose of increasing oil production. said Mchkta (of the Agency news): The infrastructure sector of the Iraqi oil is still not well suited to achieve the increase in production and export of oil, adding that they need to rehabilitate some of the pipelines and reservoirs of oil. said: You can not achieve an increase in oil production over the coming years without the presence of good oil infrastructure, so the Ministry of Oil demand in its plans focus on rehabilitating oil infrastructure before thinking increased productivity Taqtin and export of oil. / End / 8. 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