Basra denies giving it the power of oil projects and emphasizes that al-Maliki did not "bless" them with anything

Basra denies giving it the power of oil projects and emphasizes that al-Maliki did not "bless" them with anything Thursday, 16 February 2012 09:21 Shafaq News The vice president of the provincial council in Basra Ahmed Sulaiti said to "Shafaq News" that "the news which appeared in some media on the delegating the provincial council in Basra, the power to signing contracts for oil projects by the federal government are unfounded." "all what made by the federal government during the recent visit of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to Basra is to increase the amount of investment projects from 50 billion dinars to one hundred billion, while the real need to maintain for their projects is 500 billion dinars, did not give any power to the province as rumored in the media " He explained. He stressed that "Article 110 of the Constitution of Iraq confirmed that the powers of the provinces is more than the power of the federal government that have not granted by the Constitution only 9 powers," noting that "the powers of the provinces constitutionally guaranteed and not" a gift " from Maliki he grants to this province or robs from another ". The parliamentary oil committee member for the province of Basra, Uday Awwad explained , earlier, that " Baghdad government decided to give us authorization to sign oil contracts, and we know very well it is not serious about it, because the contracts from the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Oil, and the latter have the instructions and controls can not be for the owners force them to violate those controls, so as to not to adopt the law of oil and gas. " It is referred that The spokesman for Deputy Prime Minister for the energy-Shahristani, Faisal Abdullah, said, earlier, that "talking about giving the powers to Basra to sign oil contracts is groundless. Basra governorate is counted as most of Iraqi oil producer, and it has about 59% of Iraq's oil reserves increased by 67.9 billion barrels, and the largest five oil fields in the country which are the North Rumaila and South Rumaila, Majnoon and West Qurna and Zubair and its revenues of petrodollars amounted about $ 60 million per month, or $ 720 million annually. Despite the abundance of natural resources and many financial allocations that Basra gets every year, but the citizens in the province for years complain of the deterioration of services and their absence in some areas. ================ Agree with two US ports to work in units and receive a variety of cargo ships 22 Author: AAI Editor: BK, MO 13/01/09 23: 32 Press run/Basrah Iraqi ports co., announced Wednesday, for two US investment in units, docking at their ports ship loaded with 22 in quantities of sugar ration vocabulary specific and various other materials. Company Manager, said Imran rady, speaking to (run), "the two of us have entered investment in our ports by about a week, to provide services in accordance with the principle of partnership". Radi said that "the first company called Noi a company freely manage port stronghold in platform 13 and 14, and a remarkable company that works on transport organization in Umm Qasr", stating that "the two companies will contribute to activating the work of Iraqi ports of their accumulated experience and high technologies". The Governor of Basra behind Abdul Samad, he visited the United States, in December 2012, and called American investors and companies to work in the province, also met earlier in the day, the US Consul in Basra, William grant, and discussed means of activating the twinning agreement signed between Basra and the US city of Houston, and encourage us companies to work in the province, while "between grant, that several American companies will come to Basra to work in various fields such as health, sports, oil ports, according to US officials and the (range). On a related level, the Director tells the port company, Anmar, a (range), "22 different ship docked cargo, today, in the ports of Basra", pointing out that "six commercial vessels of different nationalities loaded with sugar, and various containers docked today at the port of Umm Qasr (60 km west of Basra)". NET, said that "six vessels were Panamanian nationality TRANS OKin load 20,500 tons of imported sugar for the Ministry of trade, and a Panamanian ship Normandy nationality also cargo container, ship 481 Rani Singaporean nationality with 127 container, and the ship Maersk Regency Hong Kong citizenship with 242 container, and steamer (thorboin) Malta nationality miscellaneous cargo, and the ship (BBC) sexual antako load variety." NET, explained that the "port of the commercial bastion (central Iraq) today, received seven commercial vessels loaded with Iranian nationality cement and materials". The Basra governorate, (its 590 km south of Baghdad), comprising five commercial ports near stronghold of the oldest port city center, which was created by the British army in 1914, and was used for military purposes and handed him over to the Iraqi authorities in 1937, and had the Czech company which holds the updated design basis for Basra, widely criticized for its proposed last year 2011, repeal the port which is located near the headquarters of the General company of ports. Other commercial ports are the port of Umm Qasr which established in 1965, the Ministry of transport has announced the 2010 we the southern and northern ports, while 1989 project at the port of Khawr al-Zubayr, and is the second generation of the ports it contains industrial docks and warehouses of iron ores, phosphates, urea fertilizer, and in 1976 was the establishment of Abu flous port on the West Bank of the Shatt al-Arab in Khasib district, is a small port with its inability to accommodate large vessels because of the deterioration of the deep channel The Shatt al-Arab and the large sunken naval pieces, while the port of FAO which would be the sixth