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Experts (range): report of transparency in the oil industry suffers from lapses
On: Saturday 03/03/2012 7:06
Baghdad / Ahmed Abed Rabbo
revealed specialize in the field of oil for weaknesses in the report Iraq submitted to the Transparency International in extractive industries on the contracts of oil in the country and its conformity with the standards of Transparency International. and confirmed in conversations (range) that the said report is not without lapses,
Pointing at the same time it is an important step in the right direction. Said oil expert Hamza Jeweler's (long): The report of Iraq was close to the WHO criteria, pointing out that some of the weaknesses that have not taken into account in drafting the report the final, including the amounts oil, which was the disposal of the derivatives in the refineries within the country that represent a very large amount is estimated at 600 thousand barrels per day equivalent to the production of two states of OPEC, in addition to the amounts in the Kurdistan region is also no mention in the report.
He Jeweler: There are oil exports to Jordan at special prices overlooked in the report, noting the absence of a full explanation of the nature of contracts and conditions of export and marketing to Jordan.
He continued: no report indicates the value of payments to the state due to the provision of information by the Reserve Bank of American to the Development Fund for Iraq for the main feeder funds to the Central Bank of Iraq. And the jeweler that the data upon which the report characterized system of accounting is backward so not in line with the standards of international accounting.
He noted that the participation of civil society during the time of writing the token participation, indicating that he was called up during one meeting and offered them the report quickly without the active participation in discussions , while out of the initiative requires the active participation of civil society organizations. and that the mechanism functional used to calculate the quantities and sizes of oils produced from the companies had to obtain differences or ratios specific error, while the report out the results of matching to the end of a barrel raises doubts about the credibility of this numbers. For its part, considered a member of the Board of stakeholders in the initiative Ibtisam Al Shammari request of the Government of the Organization accession is a testament to transparency in the oil industry in the country.
said Shammari's (long): This report is the first of its kind for transparency in the country, pointing to that the former regime has not approached the organization in this regard.
said Shammari formed a committee at the present time take into account the comments raised about the previous report and are not repeated in future reports.
He pointed out that the export of oil to Jordan at a semi-free did not take into account the previous report because they were not within the demands of the International Initiative. said to that member of the stakeholder initiative Yassin Said Musa's (long): This report is the first in the history of Iraq, which is concerned with monitoring the amounts of revenues derived from oil revenues, indicating that the type of good governance as a call for participation civil society and companies, the government in the preparation of this report. said Moses, the fact that this first report should be marred by some weak points, including the marketing of oil inside the country and account Mrtdjaadtha addition to the type of filter and how to calculate returns the full terms of the re-injection wells or mixed with crude oil. He continued Moses, the report did not include some of the products inside, which amounts to 600 thousand barrels, and this goes to the Iraqi refineries, noting that oil imports accounted for a marketer inside of the Ministry of Oil. He called the House of Representatives to speed up approval of oil and gas law and the establishment of the regulatory framework for the national oil company in order to strengthen the performance of the oil sector and the adoption of clear strategies for the management of oil resources in the country. He joined Iraq in 2010 to "Initiative Extractive Industries Transparency international" which sets global standards for transparency in regards to the extractive industries.
and companies must disclose taxes and royalty payments to governments to call on governments to provide proof of receipt of such payments. and some experts see the need to expansion of the principle of Transparency International in trading Iraqi oil for Foreign Affairs, through the audit figures for the amounts of oil exporters and the funds belonging to them, for business integrity and the eradication of corruption, improving the reputation of the country to the exporting countries and oil producers, pointing out that most of the countries of the world, which has extractive industries have become part of the World Organization of the Extractive Industries Transparency.
It is noted that the organization Transparency International had issued its annual report on the corruption index in the world, which covers 180 countries in the world according to the measure of ascending ranging from zero to 10 degrees, and that TI published every year since 1995, an indication of corruption based on the classification of 180 countries in the world according to the analysis of an international group of experts and specialists.
It is noteworthy that the report of the organization has shown that 4 Arab countries dominated by armed conflicts and internal disturbances occupied scoring so low a Yemen (154) and Iraq (176) and Sudan (176 bis) and Somalia (180), which was at the bottom, and at the level of Muslim countries, Afghanistan ranked the second most centers worse (179), followed by Iran (168).
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