After a sudden Iranian decision ... Turkish electricity to Iraq via Kurdistan, starting tomorrow

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After a sudden Iranian decision ... Turkish electricity to Iraq via Kurdistan, starting tomorrow

 

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 2020-12-27 09:33

 

Shafaq News / On Monday, Turkey will start exporting electricity to Iraq, via the Silopi - Zakho line in the Kurdistan Region for a period of 11 months.

 

This comes after an Iranian decision to reduce the supply of Iraqi gas fuel from 5 million to 3 million cubic meters for "non-payment of debts," which affects the hours of electricity supply to great levels.

 

Turkish media said that the Energy Market Regulatory Authority in Turkey granted a license to the Aksa Axen Energy Trade Company to export 150 megawatts of electricity to Iraq, starting from Monday for a period of 11 months, via the Silopi-Zakho line.

 

Turkish news reports indicated that, according to the contract concluded with the Iraqi side, the electricity supply to Iraq will start from December 28 and until November 1, 2021.

 

Turkey currently exports electricity to 3 countries: Georgia, Greece and Bulgaria.

 

And the Iraqi Ministry of Electricity announced, earlier today, that Iran decided to reduce Iraq's supply of gas fuel from 5 million to 3 million cubic meters for non-payment of debts, warning that this would make the electricity supply almost non-existent in Baghdad and the Middle Euphrates, while the Iranian Minister of Energy will visit Iraq Next Tuesday to discuss gas supply and financial dues.

 

 

 

The decision to reduce the rate of Iranian gas supply comes two weeks after a similar decision was taken to reduce the processing rate from 50 million cubic meters to 5 million cubic meters.

 

"The reduction will make the supply of electricity almost non-existent in Baghdad and the Middle Euphrates," said the ministry's spokesman, Ahmed Moussa, noting that "talking about a complete blackout in the event of reducing gas from the Iranian side is not correct because the ministry has a national product of energy production from the stations." It operates on liquid fuels and works on national gas, but the Iranian reduction will cause a significant reduction in the hours of electricity supply. "

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The Iranian religion loses electricity in Baghdad and the Middle Euphrates

 

electricity worker. "Internet"

energy Economy News - Baghdad The Iranian government intends to reduce its exports of gas generating electrical energy to Iraq by nearly half, due to non-payment of dues from Baghdad and its accumulation over the past months. A spokesman for the Iraqi Ministry of Electricity, Ahmed Moussa, said, "The Iranian side will reduce the supply of gas fuel from 5 million cubic meters to 3 million cubic meters, for non-payment of debts arising from the purchase of gas." In statements to the official Al-Iraqiya station, Moussa said, "The reduction will make the supply of electricity almost non-existent in Baghdad and the Middle Euphrates." According to sources from the Iraqi Ministry of Electricity, "Reducing Iranian gas by about half will harm the Iraqi electricity sector, which relies a third of its energy on what it imports from Iranian gas and electricity." The sources pointed out that "the governorates of central and southern Iraq will be the most affected, including Babel, Nasiriyah and Basra, which depend almost entirely on Iranian gas, in addition to Baghdad, whose electricity supply hours have decreased to 4 hours per day." Iran had called on more than one occasion, the Iraqi government to expedite the payment of electricity debts. Iran says it is "in desperate need of electricity sales money to Iraq." And in the middle of this year, the Iranian Minister of Energy, Reza Ardakanian, announced the signing of a two-year contract to export electricity to Iraq, during his visit to Baghdad and his meeting with a number of Iraqi officials. In a statement carried by the official Iranian news agency IRNA, he said, "The previous contracts for the export of electricity to Iraq were for a period of one year, but this time we signed a two-year contract: 2020 and 2021." The Iranian Minister of Energy added, "Iran received during the visit about 400 million dollars, an amount equivalent to half of its dues from the sale of electricity to Iraq. Tehran provides Iraq with electricity by 1200 megawatts through four lines, namely the (Khorramshahr - Basra) line, and (Karkheh - Amara) (Kermanshah - Diyala), and (Sarbil Zahab - Khanaqin) The imported gas from Iran contributes to operating Iraqi electrical stations supplying the system with approximately 3,300 megawatts. For his part, a member of the Oil and Energy Committee in the Iraqi Parliament, Ghaleb Muhammad, said, “Iraq needs at this time 24,000 megawatts of electricity to provide energy to the Iraqis, but it only has 17,000 megawatts, and therefore there is a shortage in providing electricity in most regions, and that Iran's choice to reduce its exports of electricity-generating gas will constitute a crisis in the country. " Muhammad added, "This problem is renewed every period, but some officials in the ministries of oil and electricity seek to solve it." He pointed out that "Iraq is ranked tenth in the world with its possession of natural gas, but it does not benefit from it, because the ministers of oil and electricity are not specialists in their fields. They claim that they are engineers, but they are in fact working in the political field, and they want to reap profits and huge financial deals." , Stressing that "18 billion cubic meters of associated gas are burned annually, without Iraq benefiting from it, because there are parties that do not want Iraq to rely on itself in providing for its needs." For his part, the economic expert in Iraq, Abdul Rahman Al-Mashhadani, affirmed that "Iraq owes Iran more than 4 trillion Iraqi dinars," noting that "the energy file suffers from the control of parties, armed factions and gangs over it." Citing the new Arab newspaper prepared by Zaid Salem

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The Minister of Electricity is facing "interrogation" and the crisis of processing hours is worsening

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  Baghdad: Shaima Rasheed

 

Once again, the crisis of declining national electricity supply hours in Baghdad and the central Euphrates provinces has been exacerbated in conjunction with the very low temperatures and the need for heating devices.

Parliament is heading to question the Minister of Electricity, Majid Mahdi Hantoush, in light of fears of a possible collapse of the system, while working on investing gas to run the stations instead of importing it.

On the other hand, MPs spoke of the existence of a "new understanding" with the Iranian side to pay off part of the debts, given the difficulty of completing the electrical connection at the present time with Saudi Arabia.

A member of the Parliamentary Energy Committee, Ghaleb Muhammad, told «Al-Sabah»: «Iran has reduced the sending of gas to Iraq in half due to the accumulated debts estimated at more than 5 trillion dinars, which led to a reduction in the proportion of the supply of electric power.

He added, "The Oil Ministry should change its strategy towards the oil and gas industry," indicating that "the ministry is only talking about oil and neglecting the gas file."

He called for "starting to produce gas and offering fields to investment is better than burning it daily without interest," revealing that "there is an understanding with the Iranian side to pay off some debts, especially since the link with Saudi Arabia may be delayed."

For its part, the representative of the Iraqi coalition, Zahra Al-Bajari, said: "Despite the huge sums spent on the electricity departments in the provinces, the ministry was not able to address the problem."

She added that «in the coming period of the parliament’s work, a number of ministers will be hosted and questioned, including the Minister of Electricity, to clarify the reasons for this great delay in supplying energy.

On importing electricity from Turkey, the ministry’s spokesman, Ahmed Al-Abadi, explained that “these news are not true,” explaining that “importing electricity from Turkey needs study, time, and a network linking with the Turkish side.”

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Iranian gas: Reducing supplies to Iraq due to arrears exceeding $ 6 billion

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2020-12-28 | 14:35

 

 

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The National Iranian Gas Company said on Monday that it has reduced supplies to Iraq due to arrears exceeding $ 6 billion.

"The Iraqi Ministry of Electricity owes more than $ 5 billion, which is the value of the gas bills of the National Iranian Gas Company, of which $ 3 billion is still withheld and inaccessible to the Iraqi Trade Bank, as well as debts owed more than two billion dollars," the company added in a statement. ".

 

"In addition, the Iraqi side owes more than one billion dollars to the National Iranian Gas Company for contractual violations under the agreement," the statement said.