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Post by novice investor Mon Jun 30, 2008 6:56 pm

Iraq fails to ink deals with global oil majors









by Ammar Karim
Mon Jun 30, 11:37 AM ET





BAGHDAD (AFP) -
Iraq said on
Monday that it had failed to sign technical support deals with global
oil majors hoping to cash in on boosting the war-torn country's
extensive but underexploited oilfields.
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Iraq is still negotiating with Shell, BP, ExxonMobil,
Chevron and Total, and a consortium of other smaller oil companies, to
develop six oil blocks and two gas fields, Oil Minister Hussein
al-Shahristani told a press briefing.
"We did not finalise any agreement with them because they refused
to offer consultancy based on fees as they wanted a share of the oil,"
he said.


"The TSAs (technical support agreements)
are only simple consultancy contracts to help us raise the production
during the interim period" before the ministry enters into long-term
contracts to develop the oil and gas fields.


The widely expected arrangement was to pave the way for global energy giants to return to Iraq 36 years after Saddam Hussein threw them out, and was seen as a first step to access the earth's third largest proven crude reserves.





Last week, oil ministry spokesman Asim Jihad told AFP that it would sign



the support contracts on Monday and award longer-term deals to 41 other energy companies.
"We chose 35 companies of international standard, according to
their finances, environment and experience, and we granted them
permission to extract oil," Jihad said.


Six other state-owned oil firms from Algeria, Angola, Pakistan, Thailand, Turkey and Vietnam have also been selected to compete for extraction deals.
Iraq wants to ramp up output by 500,000 barrels per day from the
current average production of 2.5 million bpd, about equal to the
amount being pumped before the US-led invasion in March 2003.


However, political infighting over how oil revenues should be shared has slowed the process.
Crucially, the passing of the hydrocarbon law that aims to govern
profit-sharing as well as foreign agreements has yet to be passed by
the nation's parliament.
Exports of 2.11 million bpd currently form the bulk of the war-torn
nation's revenues, and the oil ministry is keen to raise capacity over
the next five years to 4.5 million bpd.
Iraq has crude reserves estimated at 115 billion barrels but it is
sorely lacking in high-tech infrastructure following years of crippling
UN sanctions after the 1990 invasion of Kuwait by Saddam Hussein.
Shahristani stressed that Iraq needed the services of experienced
companies to realise the potential of its huge crude reserves but added
that it was not ready to do so at any price.


"It is not possible for Iraq which has large oil reserves
to stay at the current level of production. Iraq should be the second
or the third source of oil exportation," the minister said.
"We went to these global companies and asked them to offer us
consultancy but they will have no privileges or will not get a share of
oil."
Shahristani said his ministry had invited tenders from the 41
selected foreign firms to enter into long-term services agreements for
which the contracts would be signed next year.



The companies have been told to present their offers by April 2009, he said, adding the deals would be signed later in June.



"It is a service contract and not a production-sharing contract," the minister said.
Shahristani said Iraq would not enter into production-sharing
contracts with any energy major, while service arrangements for
overseas firms would require locals partners.
"We think there is no need to share Iraq's oil with anybody,"
the minister said, adding the final offers of the companies would have
to be approved by the cabinet.
Those companies that offered higher revenues for the ministry
would be preferred in awarding the services contracts, Shahristani said.

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Post by bikey Mon Jun 30, 2008 10:40 pm

greedy little b#5Ta*^%s huh? Mad

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Post by UNABLE TO USE MY OTHER US Fri Jul 04, 2008 6:01 am

If they don't share, no body sees the money going to their pockets.

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