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[Investor's Iraq Forum] Kurdish - Ashti Hawrami: There is no need for Baghdad's approval ...: pna-agencies: Minister said the natural resources in the Kurdistan Regional Government Ashti Hawrami that «the export of oil produced from the fields of the region to world markets does not require the approval of the federal government in Baghdad». Hawrami said in a statement to Al «life», the «Kurdistan Regional Government Initiated in recent months to discuss with the Federal Government and foreign companies can export oil from the region to global outlets, but it turned out that currently available resources do not permit the export of oil extracted from the fields of Kurdistan ».

[Rigzone.com: Latest News Headlines] RIGZONE - KRG PM, Iraqi Oil Minister Shake Hands to Further ...: The Kurdistan Region's Prime Minister Barzani, Deputy Prime Minister Omer Fattah and Natural Resources Minister Ashti Hawrami met the Iraqi Oil Minister before holding a joint press conference where they told reporters they had reached agreement on "the basic principle that oil remains for all the Iraqi people." They said they also agreed to take steps to link two oilfields in the Kurdistan Region to Iraq's northern pipeline and to continue talks.

[Iraq - All] LexisNexis News - Latest News from over 4000 sources, including ...: The pipeline from DNO's Tawke project is merely across a dirt road from the northern Iraq pipeline as it winds through the KRG territory in Faysh Kabur near the Turkish and Syrian borders. Less than a half-mile up the dirt road is the Iraqi government's metering station, which counts the crude before it heads into Turkey and on to the port of Ceyhan.

[Investor's Iraq Forum] Oil Export from Kurdistan - Investor's Iraq Forum: In the initial talks, the two sides aim to reach an agreement on the technical issues for exporting oil, produced by Norway's DNO from the Tawke field and a consortium of Genel Energi and Addax Petroleum from the Taq Taq field, through facilities controlled by the ministry. The recent talks focused on connecting Tawke's production facilities to the Iraq-Turkey pipeline at the Kurdish border town of Fish Khabor, and linking the Taq Taq facilities to North Oil Co.

[Iraq Updates - Politics & Government] Kurdistan develops its oil industry independently | Iraq Updates: But this is Kurdistan, a world apart from the rest of Iraq, and Kurdistan isn't waiting for a political solution in Baghdad to get on with the job of tapping its own potentially vast oil reserves. While Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish politicians bicker over the new oil law, the Kurdish regional government has been busily promoting investment in its own oil fields, signing deals with foreign oil companies and moving ahead with its own, investor-friendly oil law in the regional legislature.

[GlobalSecurity.org] Iraq: Kurdish Oil Law Poses Problem For Baghdad: If parallel legal frameworks are established in the Kurdish autonomous region and Baghdad, foreign firms wanting to do business may have to sign separate contracts and adhere to the laws of two governments. Thus, the issue remains as to whether a compromise can be reached between the Kurds and the Iraqi central government, or whether the division of oil revenues will prove to be a source of further instability in a country already reeling from insurgency and sectarian strife.

[LawkSalih.Com] LawkSalih.Com - New petroleum contracts for the Kurdistan Region ...: All contracts issued by the KRG are in the form of the Model PSC, also published on June 29. Under the seven PSCs, the KRG has the right to a participation interest of between 20 and 25 percent, and it has retained the right to assign third party participation interests of between 15 and 25 percent to qualified Iraqi and international companies to further stimulate the local economy.

[Investor's Iraq Forum] Kurdish oilfield ready to pump out crude oil (Kurdsat TV ...: Minister of Natural resources Ashti Hawrami stated that Tawk oil field in the town of Zakho, has the capacity to produce 50thousad barrel of crude oil each day, and waits for an Iraqi approval to export them.

[Cool Kids Rebel] VNN’s FTL 4/20/7 notes: Ashti Hawrami, minister of natural resources for the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq, told Reuters on Wednesday that “Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) will not sign up to details in the emerging oil law.

[Truck and Barter] Truck and Barter: Dinar Discussion JUNE 2008: Kurdistan Regional Government, KRG Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani and Maliki will meet, as will their respective delegations, including KRG Natural Resources Minister Ashti Hawrami and Iraqi Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani.

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