Parliamentary: A delegation from Kurdistan will visit Baghdad soon to mature the oil and gas law

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2023-08-26 04:52Fon

Shafaq News / The spokeswoman for the Kurdish Democratic Party bloc in the House of Representatives, Vian Dakhil, revealed, on Saturday, an upcoming visit of a delegation from the Kurdistan Regional Government to Baghdad to contribute to the maturation of the oil and gas law with the aim of legislating it.

“There are mutual delegations between the region and Baghdad, and there is a delegation from the Kurdistan Regional Government that will visit Baghdad to complete the discussion of topics on the oil and gas law to mature it, and approve it in the Council of Ministers and then send it to parliament with the aim of legislate it,” Dakhil told Shafq News.

“The most prominent differences over the law are related to export and oil fields, and we are proceeding under the roof of the Iraqi constitution,” she added.

The spokeswoman for the Kurdistan Democratic Bloc, explained that “the differences are currently technical, and will be resolved between the joint committees and delegations, and the oil and gas law will be approved in the Council of Ministers after the conclusion of the dispute points between the center and the region is completed.”

On August 17, 2023, the Ministry of Oil organized a meeting of the working group tasked with preparing the draft oil and gas law, headed by the ministry’s advisor for administrative, legal and regulatory affairs, Hamdan Owaygil, and included a number of officials in oil companies and departments of the ministry’s center. The ministry indicated that the meeting aims to discuss the preparation of the draft oil and gas law, and work on crystallizing a professional national vision that achieves the objectives of optimal investment of oil wealth in the public interest.

In early August, Prime Minister Shaia directed the formation of a ministerial committee to supervise the technical dialogues between the Federal Ministry of Oil and the Ministry of Natural Resources in the region, as well as inviting the governors of the oil-producing provinces, including Basra, Maysan, Kirkuk and Dhi Qar, and the general managers of the state oil companies for the ongoing technical dialogues regarding the draft oil and gas law, provided that these dialogues will be followed by the completion of the political dialogue to agree to submit the draft law.

The oil and gas law is one of the most important differences between the federal government and the Kurdistan Region and the parties have not reached a settlement on it for the past four parliamentary sessions.

During the current parliamentary session, the political blocs are counting on reaching solutions to the existing differences and pushing towards understandings that satisfy all parties to pass the law.

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