Oil announces reconsideration of the contracts signed with (Kar) and (Qiwan) refineries

Information / Baghdad ..
Deputy Prime Minister for Energy and Oil Minister Thamer Al-Ghadban announced, on Wednesday, that the contracts signed with (Kar) and (Qaiwan) refineries will be reviewed for providing oil derivatives and a refining capacity of 120,000 barrels.
Al-Ghadhban said in a statement reported by the official “Al-Sabah” newspaper and viewed by him / the information: that the two contracts with the (Qar) and (Qaiwan) refineries were concluded during the executions of the former minister, Jabbar Laibi. Noting that "these two contracts were concluded after the [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] terrorists took control of a number of governorates and destroyed the Baiji refinery, which was providing nearly 50 percent of oil derivatives to all of [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] , in addition to the urgent need to provide derivatives for the displaced people of those areas and provide them with electrical energy."
Al-Ghadban added, “The previous government directed its ministers and ministries to carry out campaigns to help the sons of liberated areas and the displaced, so the role of the Oil Ministry was to provide petroleum products despite the stopping of the Baiji refineries at that time and the remaining liquidation capacities with the volume of import from the derivatives that do not meet the needs of citizens, so I resorted to these refineries and signed The first two decades with the Kar refinery and the other with Qiwan.
He explained that "the two contracts also require the ministry to supply the refineries with crude oil from the fields of the North Oil Company, to be liquidated there, and the federal government receives the products, to give the liquidators a fee and wages of the cost of liquidation, which amounts to 10 dollars per barrel, noting that the two contracts were urgent, so in them Some gaps. ”
The Minister of Oil stated that his ministry “After assuming responsibility, I began to hear a murmur about these two contracts, so guidance was directed at studying the contract with the concerned authorities in the ministry and some gaps were observed, and this is normal because the contract was concluded quickly and with an exceptional circumstance, so the necessity to review the contract’s form was emphasized so that it is Clear and does not contain holes. "
He continued, "The contract must also be comprehensive, with the necessity of writing the specifications in the contract form and be of high quality, and work on the possibility for the officials of the refineries to transfer the liquidation of 20 thousand barrels per day for the Qiwan refinery and approximately 100 thousand barrels per day to the refineries of Kar in addition to reducing the fees of refining the barrel of oil The refinery and addressing some of the gaps that were occurring with the refined quantities of delivered crude oil and the quantities granted to them for the purposes of electricity generation and operation.
Al-Ghadhban pointed out that "these matters put together have been subject to detailed scrutiny through coordination and supervisory committees and daily reports, noting that it is not a week until this issue has been discussed in the formed operations room at the Ministry's headquarters."
He pointed out that "some people perceive the existence of political pressures or financial corruption surrounding these two contracts. Therefore, the Ministry has taken great care not to renew the two contracts despite the amendments to them. Which requires compensation for these quantities of derivatives, which amount to eight million liters per day of gasoline and gas oil through importation through the Gulf. Ended / 25