March 28, 2011
Entry of the Convention on the oil pipeline between Turkey and Iraq into force after the modification
Baghdad, Deputy Prime Minister for Energy, Hussain al-Shahristani said on Monday, the entry of the agreement between Iraq and Turkey for oil pipeline between the two countries, known as the Line of Kirkuk - Ceyhan, entered into force after the amendments and the endorsement of the Turkish Parliament and the Council of by the Iraqi parliament.
Al-Shahristani said at a press conference after his meeting with Turkish Energy Minister at the Palais des Adnan, Baghdad, and was attended by the correspondent of news agency Kurdistan (Rn) "after the certification of the Turkish Parliament and the Council of the Iraqi parliament to the agreement between Iraq and Turkey to extend the network of oil pipelines from Iraq to the Mediterranean Sea entered this Convention into the old the new and improved implementation."
Consists Kirkuk-Ceyhan line extending along the 960 kilometers of pipes parallel transporting currently more than 600 thousand barrels of oil per day, from within 100thousand barrels from the fields of the Kurdistan region, to the Mediterranean coast, where being channeled to the vector.
He said al-Shahristani, who met with Turkish Energy Minister and two of the leading Turkish companies within the energy sector, "it was agreed with the Turkish side on the possibility of supplying Iraq with electricity via the Syrian network, network, Zakho," noting that "the next week there will be a meeting with companies to discuss the process of linking".
He added that he "signed an agreement to build a $ 750 megawatts of Nineveh and will enter service with the network of good things in Karbala during the summer of 2012 to become the processing rate of two thousand-megawatt plants."
In turn, the Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz during the conference that "there is a study to supply Iraq with electricity by steamship through the Shatt al-Arab," noting that "we seek to resolve the electricity crisis in Iraq and there will be a special meeting between myself and the private companies of Turkey to discuss the possibility of their coming to Iraq and to investing in this the field.
"Iraq has suffered from a severe shortage of electric power, and continues to the national grid is unable to supply electricity for more than a few hours a day and come frequent interruptions in electricity at the top of citizen complaints.
http://www.aknews.com/ar/aknews/2/228036/
Al-Shahristani said at a press conference after his meeting with Turkish Energy Minister at the Palais des Adnan, Baghdad, and was attended by the correspondent of news agency Kurdistan (Rn) "after the certification of the Turkish Parliament and the Council of the Iraqi parliament to the agreement between Iraq and Turkey to extend the network of oil pipelines from Iraq to the Mediterranean Sea entered this Convention into the old the new and improved implementation."
Consists Kirkuk-Ceyhan line extending along the 960 kilometers of pipes parallel transporting currently more than 600 thousand barrels of oil per day, from within 100thousand barrels from the fields of the Kurdistan region, to the Mediterranean coast, where being channeled to the vector.
He said al-Shahristani, who met with Turkish Energy Minister and two of the leading Turkish companies within the energy sector, "it was agreed with the Turkish side on the possibility of supplying Iraq with electricity via the Syrian network, network, Zakho," noting that "the next week there will be a meeting with companies to discuss the process of linking".
He added that he "signed an agreement to build a $ 750 megawatts of Nineveh and will enter service with the network of good things in Karbala during the summer of 2012 to become the processing rate of two thousand-megawatt plants."
In turn, the Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz during the conference that "there is a study to supply Iraq with electricity by steamship through the Shatt al-Arab," noting that "we seek to resolve the electricity crisis in Iraq and there will be a special meeting between myself and the private companies of Turkey to discuss the possibility of their coming to Iraq and to investing in this the field.
"Iraq has suffered from a severe shortage of electric power, and continues to the national grid is unable to supply electricity for more than a few hours a day and come frequent interruptions in electricity at the top of citizen complaints.
http://www.aknews.com/ar/aknews/2/228036/
