Oil negotiations falter between Baghdad and Erbil, and the Norwegian company stops its production fr

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[size=52]Oil negotiations falter between Baghdad and Erbil, and the Norwegian company stops its production from Kurdistan[/size]

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The largest Iraqi gas field begins production and feeds a power station,
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On Wednesday, Iraqi Oil Minister Hayan Abdul Ghani announced the start of gas production from the Akkas field in the province Anbar is the largest gas field in the country at a rate of 60 million cubic feet per day. The general manager of the Middle Oil Company, Qadouri Salim, said, “The company started gas pumping operations yesterday Tuesday - to the gas and direct crutch power station to generate (90-95) megawatts. The efforts of the workers who worked day and night to achieve this achievement. The Akkas field is located south of the city of Al-Qaim in western Iraq, and it is the largest gas field in the country, as it contains On 5.3 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, according to estimates. While the negotiations between Baghdad and Erbil are still continuing without a solution leading to the re-export of oil from Kurdistan region of Iraq towards Turkish Ceyhan, where the Norwegian oil company «DNO» announced It is one of the main oil producers in Iraqi Kurdistan, on Wednesday that it was forced to suspend work in its fields In the region due to Turkey stopping importing oil from the region, the company said in a statement that it « It initiated a planned closure of its oil fields in the Iraqi Kurdistan region. The closure is a direct result of the suspension of shipments through the Iraq-Turkey pipeline since Saturday, against the backdrop of a decision An international tribunal for the federal government in Baghdad. He added that «negotiations come in the wake of the issuance of international arbitration last week, which was announced that Kurdish oil exports are illegal, leading to the closure of the main export pipeline through the port Turkish Jehan. About 0.5 percent of global production has stopped. "The KRG is working at the moment," a Kurdish government official said, speaking on condition of anonymity Seriously with Baghdad to pass the oil and gas law, ”explaining that the Kurdish interpretation of the constitution of Iraq for the year 2005 by saying, “Article 112 of the constitution states that we must properly manage the oil and gas sector Joint, and this is what we have been trying to do since 2019 with the current government. According to him. The International Arbitration Court of the International Chamber of Commerce, based in Paris, had ruled that Kurdish exports It violates a 1973 agreement between Baghdad and Ankara, which said the pipeline through Ceyhan does not It can be used without Baghdad's permission.” This oil dispute dates back to 2014, when Baghdad filed a lawsuit against its neighbor Turkey before an arbitration tribunal International after Ankara announced the import of oil from the Iraqi autonomous region of Kurdistan to transfer it to Ceyhan port in southern Turkey on the Mediterranean Sea, and exporting it to world markets without government permission Iraqi. The Iraqi government, which has tense relations at times with the authorities of the Iraqi Kurdistan region, strongly opposed the Turkish decision. Considering that it is the only party that has the right to manage oil exports from the region and its revenues Against Baghdad, Erbil was exporting oil through Turkey. The region's export rate is currently about 450,000 barrels per day Or »a quarter of these exports, producing an average of 107 thousand barrels per day in 2022 through the Tawki fields. and Bishkebeer The Norwegian company confirmed that it initially shifted its production to storage facilities, but it « limited »[/size]
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