Third Energy Forum will conclude its work by looking to the "post-2030"

Third Energy Forum will conclude its work by looking to the "post-2030"


 Baghdad / term


Concluded, on Monday, in the capital Baghdad, Iraq forum Third Energy, which took place over the past two days, under the supervision of Iraq Institute for Energy and under the slogan "Iraq - Towards an efficient energy sector and the economy of a multi - imports" to discuss a number of important files related to energy and the economy in Iraq and the region, most notably the future of the oil market in light of the decline in oil prices, and the multiplicity of traditional and non - traditional and renewable energy sources. The meeting also included words for a number of officials, focused on the need to rely on renewable energy as well as oil and gas.
The Prime Minister Haider al - Abadi, had called for in his speech on the first day of the forum to rely on renewable energy, pointing out that the need for oil and electric power will double over the next 15 years ,. The House of Representatives Speaker Salim al - Jubouri , in turn, that the oil and gas law is the backbone of the organization of the relationship between the center and the region and producing provinces.
The Oil Minister Jabbar Allaibi during a speech at the forum, that Iraq will end soon to complete the project of gas supply Kuwait, according to the agreement concluded between the two countries, pointing at the same time, that arrived in Iraq for the first time, to export thousand tons per day of liquid gas, and hopes export of 7,000 tons per day of liquid gas, and added that it will be in this year , an increase of 20 thousand barrels per day, in enhanced gasoline production, adding to the import of oil products worth $ 2 billion "in one year.
According to the Minister of Industry and minerals agency Mohamed Xiaa Sudanese, during his participation in the forum, that the country has spent $ 321 billion, from During the ill - considered projects in the period between 2006 to 2014, noting that, the ministry has developed programs for sustainable development in the medium and long term until 2030 term, through the use of natural resources of high responsibility, noting that, his ministry is determined to implement its decisions to absorb unemployment and stop wasting money which reached large proportions of more than three billion dollars. in
turn threw water resources Minister Hassan al - Janabi , an intervention in the Forum in which he stressed, that as far as it comes to water resources, Iraq is facing severe challenges, having lost and wasted, major opportunities to improve the water sector, in conjunction with the sectors Other economy obtained by debris, destruction, wars, underdevelopment and isolation, the water sector has not separated from the sectors of energy and food. This fact has become a successful, comprehensive and integrated sustainable economic development assumptions, whether economic, social, environmental or climate - related climate warming and obligations of States to their obligations under international conventions, most recently the Paris Convention on Climate Change in the atheist twenty parties meeting (COP21) in Paris, and reduce emissions greenhouse gases, and consequently the gradual move away from fossil energy sources toward renewable energy sources.
He added that this link between water, food and energy still need more research and checking for re - definition, eliminate confusion, mystery and faith naive wealth, resulting from abundant oil reserves, abundant water resources and fertile land, reclining on an assumed price of fuel in the world markets, and thus surrender to the feeling relieved in the ability to buy food from the world markets, compared to the negligence of the local market for food and agriculture, and the payment of salaries bloated and excessive privileges, and spending on projects it turned out to be a high proportion of them were almost fake.
The al - Janabi, the country 's revenues from Mesopotamia water is decreasing, has lost our country more than a third of its revenue from the Euphrates rate, will soon lose half of its revenue rate of the Tigris River water across the border with neighboring Turkey, and we have lost in the last two decades, the waters of the rivers Karkheh and Karun , both of which originate in the territory of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and they pour in Houralhoveizeh and the Shatt al - Arab, respectively, and thus the traditional methods Balaroa are no longer useful, and that the agricultural sector needs to move rapidly from the loser sector depends mainly on the support of the state, to a profitable sector or at least standing on solid ground.
He noted that the country needs to spend an estimated $ 180 billion, of which 68 billion in infrastructure and reclamation in the field of work of the Ministry of Water Resources, including more than 80 billion dollars in sanitation and drinking water sector, and the amount $ 10 billion in the field of dams, rehabilitation and energy production and so on .
He stressed the ministry 's desire to respond to the needs of the oil sector of water in the oil fields, where for each barrel of oil extracted, there is a need for the equivalent of a barrel and a half barrel of water.
The forum was also discussed, the impact of US policies on the vagaries of the markets and the economies of oil - exporting countries in the Middle East, especially Iraq and the role of international oil companies in Iraq and ways to curb the risks, and promote investment opportunities and to discuss financial systems and legal frameworks in light of the economic reform process, and the development of systematic plans to address population growth, unemployment and technological development challenges, and look towards Iraq after 2030.
founded Iraq energy Institute in 2008 as an independent non - profit organization working on the rationalization of energy policy in Iraq and providing the economic and legislative reform efforts, and the development of scientific research in the areas of Oil, gas, electricity and renewable energy. It was appointed as a consultant to the Institute of Oil and Energy Committee representative in the Iraqi Council of Representatives. The center is located President of the Institute in the United Kingdom (London) and participate in the Institute 's Board of Management Advisory Committee and Iraqi experts in all areas of energy.


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