Archive for March, 2007
Excellent Article on Draft Oil Law by Mohammed Arif
Veteran Iraqi journalist Mohammed Arif has written a new and important article on the draft Iraqi Oil Law. Arif writes and compliments Fouad al-Amir and Al-Ghad:
Dear Mr. Fouad AlAmir,
I have to thank you from deep my heart for your wonderful research that helped me to devote my last two weekly articles to oil … […]
Posted: March 24th, 2007 under Oil.
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Exclusive: New Analysis of the Oil Law, by Fouad Al-Amir
لنرجع الى العراقيين الذين يريدون ان يمرروا القانون الآن وبشكله الحالي الذي لم يستوف حتى الصيغ القانونية الرصينة، وبغض النظر عن فائدة او عدم فائدة “عقود المشاركة” للحقول العراقية، ونقول لننظر الى “المصالح” فقط. لاتوجد “مصالح” اقتصادية، طالما نتسطيع التطوير وبالحدود التي يحتاجها العراق وبامكانياتنا المالية الخاصة، فهنا لايوجد امامنا غير “المصالح السياسية”…
لاتمرروه حفاظاً على […]
Posted: March 15th, 2007 under Oil.
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“Iraqi Oil Law Is a Bomb Waiting to Explode”
The head of the Oil Committee of Iraqi Parliament, Dr Abdul al Hadi al Hasani, has declared that the Iraqi Oil Law Is a “bomb waiting to explode.”
An important conference was held in London in which the head of the Oil Committee in the Iraqi Parliament took the lead.
The Conference was held on February 19 […]
Posted: March 13th, 2007 under Oil.
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“قانونَ النفط والغاز”… لماذا يعارضه علماء ومهندسو العراق؟
نشرت “وجهات نظر” لصحيفة الاتحاد تعليقاً لاذعاً بقلم الكاتب العراقي المرموق، محمد عارف، نزف منه فقرة لقراء الغد الكرام، مع صلة للأصل. والتعليق بعنوان.
قانونَ النفط والغاز… لماذا يعارضه علماء ومهندسو العراق؟
شرُّ ما أعطي العبدُ شُحٌ هالعٌ وجبنٌ خالع”، قال ذلك الرسول صلى الله عليه وسلّم. وليس هناك أدق وصفاً من ذلك الحديث للحالة التي يعكسها […]
Posted: March 13th, 2007 under General.
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Mahdi al-Hafiz’s Opposes the Rush to Pass the Draft Oil Law
Dr. Mahdi al-Hafiz’s, MP, former Minister and Head of Development Council Development, called in a memo, to the President and members of the Iraqi Parliament, for the implementation of the demands of the Amman Seminar held by 50 Iraqi oil specialists. He called on Parliament to stop the rush to legislate the Draft Oil Law, […]
Posted: March 8th, 2007 under Oil.
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Exclusive - Two Members of the Drafting Group of the Iraq New Oil Law, Attack the Draft (Update 1)
In an unpublished article, leaked to Al-Ghad, Mr. Tariq Shafiq, a petroleum expert, former founding director of INOC in 1964, and a key member of the drafting committee of the Iraq Draft Oil Law, strongly criticized the law, supposedly prepared by him, and his two colleagues.
The Draft was approved by the Iraqi Cabinet recently […]
Posted: March 8th, 2007 under Oil.
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Letter on the Draft Iraqi Oil Law
This is brief summary of a point of view (in Arabic) shared by many Iraqi oil experts, and those acquainted with the oil question in general. Especially those who took part in the recent seminar on the Oil Law held in Amman, Jordan. He takes to task the current Iraqi oil minister, Dr. Husain Al-Shahristani’s […]
Posted: March 4th, 2007 under General.
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ملاحظات خطيرة حول مسودة قانون النفط
للسيد طارق شفيق، عضو الهيئة الثلاثية التي أعدت المسودة
تنشر الغد ملاحظات هامة تسربت الينا، كتبها أحد أعضاء الهيئة التي أعدت مسودة قانون النفط، وهو السيد طارق شفيق.
وعلى الرغم من معارضتنا لبعض محتوياتها، والتي سنناقشها فيما بعد، فإنها تضمنت نواقصا وجاوزات جوهرية تعرض مصالح الوطن ومصادر قوت الشعب العراقي الى الأخطار الجسيمة، […]
Posted: March 2nd, 2007 under Oil.
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