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Parliamentary oil: the existence of a quasi-political consensus to legislate the oil and gas law Economy 13:42 - 2023-04-02 Today, Sunday, the Oil, Gas and Natural Resources Committee announced the existence of a semi-political consensus to legislate the oil and gas law, while developing a plan to accelerate its legislation. The head of the committee, Haibet al-Halbousi, said in a statement: "The oil and gas law was prevented from being passed due to the presence of major political differences and a small technical side," stressing that "there is almost a political consensus to proceed with the legislation of the law." He added, "The committee set a course of action to visit the heads of political blocs, to expedite the enactment of the law and present its vision." He pointed out, "The oil and gas law serves all Iraqis and not a specific party, because oil and mineral investments belong to all the people."
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Parliamentary Oil announces the direct study of a very important controversial law Time: 03/21/2023 18:47:25 Read: 2,756 times {Politics: Al-Furat News} The Parliamentary Oil and Gas Committee announced today, Tuesday, the start of studying the oil and gas law and identifying observations. A member of the committee, Ali al-Mashkoor, told Al-Furat News that: "Although the government has not yet sent the oil and gas law, we and with the government's announcement of approving this law within the ministerial curriculum, we started with the committee to study the law and identify observations, points of contention and outstanding issues." Al-Mashkoor explained, "The study came with the aim of alleviating all obstacles in a way that does not harm any of the parties or any of the governorates." After years of continuous disputes between the center and the region, the flame of rapprochement ignited between the two parties to resolve the oil and gas law, which took a long period of neglect due to the disagreement over how to manage oil wealth, especially after the visit of Prime Minister Muhammad Shia al-Sudani to the Kurdistan region. For his part, a member of the Parliamentary Oil and Gas Committee, Ali Shaddad, confirmed that the general political agreement led by Prime Minister Muhammad Shia’a al-Sudani between the federal governments and the Kurdistan region took the first step by agreeing on the form of the budget law, immediately after which work will be done to legislate the oil and gas law, which is one of the controversial points. for which the problem was raised. From: Raghad Dahham
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Member of Parliamentary Energy: A "semi-official" agreement on the oil and gas law Time: 02/08/2023 14:47:58 Read: 832 times {Economic: Al Furat News} A member of the Parliamentary Oil and Energy Committee revealed a "semi-official" agreement regarding the controversial draft oil and gas law. Zainab Jumaa Al-Moussawi told {Euphrates News} agency: "We in the Oil, Gas and Natural Resources Committee are working continuously in discussing the oil and gas law and making the amendment to request, especially since there is a political will to approve it in the current fifth parliamentary session and not to deport it to the next session." She added, "Many of the problems facing the oil and gas sector in Iraq will be resolved by its approval." Al-Moussawi pointed out that "it was agreed semi-officially that the outstanding issues be dealt with, in accordance with what was stipulated in the Iraqi constitution." And she explained, "The oil and gas law stipulates that the responsibility for managing the oil fields in the country must be entrusted to a national oil company, and it is supervised by a federal council specialized in this issue, but since 2003, Baghdad and Erbil have disagreed on the issue of managing the region's oil fields." And the Prime Minister, Muhammad Shia al-Sudani, revealed this evening, Tuesday, that there is a draft oil and gas law that is being reviewed between Baghdad and Erbil in order to ripen it and then approve it. Al-Sudani said during the weekly press conference, "The oil and gas law is one of the government's obligations, and there is a draft law being circulated between the Federal Ministry of Oil and the Ministry of Natural Resources in the Kurdistan Region." He pointed out that "after approving the budget law, the draft oil and gas law will be discussed."