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Iraq oil exports fall on weather, sabotage
by Staff Writers
Baghdad (AFP) July 22, 2013


Iraq: seven months of unrest and political crisis
Baghdad (AFP) July 22, 2013 - Iraq has seen an upturn in deadly sectarian violence and protests since late last year:

--2012--

- December 23: The start of major demonstrations in several provinces demanding the ouster of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, a Shiite accused by opponents of monopolising power and sidelining Sunnis.

Demonstrators are demanding the liberation of prisoners and a reform of anti-terrorism laws. The action follows the arrest on terrorism charges of nine guards of Finance Minister Rafa al-Essawi, a Sunni and member of the Sunni-backed Iraqiya bloc.

--2013--

- January 16: A wave of attacks across the country leaves 49 dead and 240 injured, notably in two cities in the north at the heart of a bitter dispute between the central government and the autonomous region of Kurdistan.

- February 8: A spate of car bombs in Shiite areas kill at least 33 people, as tens of thousands of Sunni demonstrators demand the ouster of the prime minister. Attacks spiral, leaving more than 100 dead in one week.

- February 28: The government says it has freed 4,000 prisoners since the beginning of 2013, in an apparent bid to placate protesters in Sunni areas of the country.

- March 19: A wave of attacks and explosions, mainly in Shiite neighbourhoods in and around Baghdad, kill 56 people and injure more than 220.

- April 15: Dozens of attacks across Iraq, including a brazen car bombing on the way to Baghdad airport, kill 50 people.

- April 23: The beginning of a new wave of clashes which leave more than 240 dead in a week. The violence breaks out when security forces enter an area where Sunni demonstrations have been held since January near Hawijah, west of Kirkuk province's eponymous capital. Revenge attacks ensue on Iraqi forces.

- May 17: Bombs targeting Sunnis, including two near a mosque and one at a funeral procession, kill 67 people, after dozens died in two days of attacks on Shiites.

- May 27: Attacks in the Baghdad area and northern Iraq, mainly targeting Shiite areas, kill 58 people.

- June 10: A wave of violence, mostly aimed at Sunni security forces, kill at least 73 people.

- July 2: A wave of attacks, mostly targeting Shiite Muslims, including a spate of market bombings, kill 57.

- July 16: A UN envoy says that nearly 3,000 people have been killed in Iraq in four months and that the country risks stumbling onto a "dangerous path" to disarray.

- July 20: A wave of bombings kill more than 60 people in Baghdad province.

- July 22: Militants attack two Iraqi prisons, freeing at least 500 inmates in assaults that cost more than 40 lives, officials say.

Iraqi oil exports fell in June for the second month in a row as poor weather hit southern ports and saboteurs damaged a key pipeline, the oil ministry said Monday.

Iraq exported 69.8 million barrels of oil in June at an average rate of 2.32 million barrels per day (bpd), down from 76.9 million barrels and 2.48 million bpd in May.

Average oil prices were $97.4 per barrel, meaning the country took in $6.799 billion from crude sales in June.

"Oil exports during the last month witnessed a slight decrease because of bad weather conditions in the southern ports, and acts of sabotage against the pipeline from Kirkuk to the port of Ceyhan," in Turkey, ministry spokesman Assem Jihad said in a statement.

Militants have repeatedly targeted the export pipeline which runs through northern Iraq.

Iraq is dependent on oil exports for the lion's share of its government income, and is seeking to dramatically ramp up its sales in the coming years to fund the reconstruction of its battered infrastructure.

Officials are aiming to increase production capacity to nine million bpd by 2017. Oil output currently stands at 3.4 million bpd.

Iran signs major deal to export gas to Iraq
Tehran (AFP) July 22, 2013 - Iran has finalised a major contract to export gas to neighbouring Iraq, worth 3.7 billion dollars a year, local media on Monday quoted a deputy oil minister as saying.

It was unclear how the transaction would be conducted as Iran's access to the global banking system is targeted by international sanctions over its nuclear ambitions.

Under the terms of the contract signed in Baghdad on Sunday, Iran will eventually feed Iraqi refineries with 25 million cubic metres of gas per day, Javad Ouji said, quoted by the news website of Iran's oil ministry, Shana.

This is Iran's largest reported gas deal to date.

It has a $7.5 billion gas pipeline project with Pakistan, to export 21 million cubic metres (742 million cubic feet) per day, but the plan has repeatedly run into trouble amid US opposition to the deal agreed in 2010.

Iran sits on the world's second largest natural gas reserves and currently produces some 600 million cubic metres a day, almost all of which is consumed domestically due to lack of exports means.

Ouji, speaking after the signing ceremony on Sunday, said the gas export will be transported through a 227-kilometre (141-mile) pipeline under construction in the western province of Ilam.

It will then go through a 270-kilometre pipeline in Iraq due for completion "within one or two months," said Ouji, who heads the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC).

The report came after Iran's outgoing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad paid a two-day visit to Iraq.

Shiite powerhouse Iran and Iraq, which fought a deadly war the 1980s, have become close allies since the 2003 fall of Saddam Hussein and the rise to power of a Shiite-dominated government in Baghdad.

According to Ouji, the two neighbours are also considering a second contract for an additional daily amount of 20 million cubic metres of gas to be exported to Iraq.

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ENERGY TECH
Iran signs major deal to export gas to Iraq
Tehran (AFP) July 22, 2013
Iran has finalised a major contract to export gas to neighbouring Iraq, worth 3.7 billion dollars a year, local media on Monday quoted a deputy oil minister as saying. It was unclear how the transaction would be conducted as Iran's access to the global banking system is targeted by international sanctions over its nuclear ambitions. Under the terms of the contract signed in Baghdad on Su ... read more


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