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Iraqi Kurdistan Region oil sold to Iran
28.4.2008
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April 28, 2008
Iraqi Kurdistan Region oil is secretly sent to Iran,
Rozhnama daily newspaper run by the former deputy
leader Nawshirwan Mustafa reported on 23 April.
Kurdistan Region Minister for Natural Resources
Ashti Hawrami has denied the report.
A source told the paper that the oil taken from
Zakho oil fields are sold to private refinery
companies through a Kurdish company called Girsheen.
An oil engineer explained to Rozhnama,www.ekurd.net
on condition of
anonymity, that the fuel oil is the residue of
distilled crude oil which contains important
chemical elements that can be used to produce other
products in advanced refineries.
"The Sulaimaniyah refinery may generate 25 per cent
of black oil out of the crude oil it receives," the
engineer added.
Unidentified sources told Rozhnama that the oil is
transferred to Iran through Kurdistan Region borders
overnight, especially through Hajji Umran border
crossing.
The Qaywan Company, whose main office is based in
Sulaimaniyah, transfers fuel oil from Kurdistan to
sell in Iran, a tanker driver told Rozhnama.
According to one of the drivers of the oil tankers
each tanker loads 22 tonnes of oil and that end up
in the Bandar Abbas or Bandar Imam in Iran within
four days. He told Rozhnama that transporting an oil
tanker to Bandar Abbas cost 95 dollars while to
Bandar Imam was 65 dollars.
The head of the Qaywan Company, Shaykh Sa'd, told
Rozhnama that they bought the black oil from the
Iraqi Ministry of Oil and transferred it from the
Iraqi Bayji refinery to Iran. He reiterated that
what they do was legitimate.
Sa'd said that unlike the fuel oil, the crude oil in
Iraqi Kurdistan was not allowed to be sent outside
the country.
While the price of a barrel of oil is 110 dollars in
the international market, it is only 72 dollars in
Iraqi Kurdistan, Rozhnama noted.
Originally published by Rozhnama, Sulaimaniyah, in
Sorani Kurdish 27 Apr 08.
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