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Al-Ghad is publishing the bidding details of Iraq’s Oil. We are
publishing the bare figures without a translation, and with no comment.
These will be later.

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تفاصيل الجولة الاولى للتراخيص:-

 
 
1- حقل الرميلة
 
أ- الحد المستهدف للانتاج من قبل الحكومة العراقية 1,850,000 برميل/ يوم ، و الانتاج الحالي 900,000 برميل يوميا
ب- تدفع الحكومة 2$ لكل برميل يتجاوز الحد المستهدف .علما هذا الرقم سري و محفوظ  في ظرف مختوم ، فتح مع فتح العروض ، أي لاتعرف به الشركات عندما قدمت عروضها . يعتبر هذا المبلغ حافز للشركات و حسب وئائق المناقصة .
ج- عروض الشركات:
1-    تحالف الوطنية الصينية و برتش بتروليوم:  انتاج 2,850,000 ب/ ي  مقابل 3,6 $ لكل برميل فوق الحد المستهدف. وقد فازوا بالترخيص، بعد تخفيض الحافز الى 2 دولار بدلا من الرقم الذي قدموه .
2-   موبيل واكسون : انتاج 3,100,000 ب/ي مقابل 4,8$ لكل برميل فوق الحد المستهدف. و لم يقبلوا بتخفيض الرقم .
 
 
2- حقل باي حسن
 
أ- الحد المستهدف للانتاج من قبل الحكومة العراقية 220,000 برميل/ يوم
ب- تدفع الحكومة 4$ لكل برميل يتجاوز الحد المستهدف ، كما موضح في الفقرة 1 ب اعلاه
ج- عروض الشركات:
1-    تحالف الوطنية الصينية و كونوكوفيلبس:  انتاج 390,000 ب/ي  مقابل 26 $ لكل برميل فوق الحد المستهدف. و لم يقبلوا تخفيض الرقم ، لذا رفض العرض .
 
 
3-حقل الزبير
 
أ- الحد المستهدف للانتاج من قبل الحكومة العراقية 400,000 برميل/ يوم
ب- تدفع الحكومة 2$ لكل برميل يتجاوز الحد المستهدف . كما موضح في 1ب اعلاه.
ج- عروض الشركات:
1-   موبيل:  انتاج 850,000 ب/ي  مقابل 4,8 $ لكل برميل فوق الحد المستهدف.
2-   ايني : انتاج 1,125,000 ب/ي مقابل 4,8$ لكل برميل فوق الحد المستهدف.
3-   الصينية: انتاج 1,075,000 ب/ي مقابل 4,09 $ لكل برميل فوق الحد المستهدف.
4-   الهندية: انتاج 525,000 ب/ي  مقابل 6,9 $ لكل برميل فوق الحد المستهدف.
 لم تقبل الشركات تخفيض ارقامها الى الرقم المحدد من قبل الوزارة ، لذا رفضت جميع العروض .
 
4-حقل ميسان
 
أ- الحد المستهدف للانتاج من قبل الحكومة العراقية 275,000 برميل/ يوم
ب- تدفع الحكومة 2,3$ لكل برميل يتجاوز الحد المستهدف ، كما موضح في 1 ب اعلاه.
ج- عروض الشركات:
1-   الصينية:  انتاج 450,000 ب/ي  مقابل 21,4 $ لكل برميل فوق الحد المستهدف.
 لم تقبل الشركة تخفيض الرقم الى ما تريد الوزارة لذا رفض العرض .
 
5-حقل غرب القرنة
 
أ- الحد المستهدف للانتاج من قبل الحكومة العراقية 600,000 برميل/ يوم
ب- تدفع الحكومة 1,9$ لكل برميل يتجاوز الحد المستهدف ، كما موضح في 1ب اعلاه .
ج- عروض الشركات:
1-   توتال:  انتاج 900,000 ب/ي  مقابل 7,5 $ لكل برميل فوق الحد المستهدف.
2-   لوك اويل : انتاج 1,500,000 ب/ي مقابل 6,49$ لكل برميل فوق الحد المستهدف.
3-   الأسبانية: انتاج 650,000 ب/ي مقابل 19 $ لكل برميل فوق الحد المستهدف.
4-   اكسون موبيل وشيل: انتاج 2,325,000 ب/ي  مقابل 4 $ لكل برميل فوق الحد المستهدف.
5-   الصينية: انتاج 1,900,000 ب/ي  مقابل 2,6 $ لكل برميل فوق الحد المستهدف.
 لم تقبل الشركات تخفيض ارقامها الى الرقم المحدد من الوزارة ، لذا رفضت جميع العروض .
 
6-حقل كركوك
 
أ- الحد المستهدف للانتاج من قبل الحكومة العراقية 600,000 برميل/ يوم
ب- تدفع الحكومة 2$ لكل برميل يتجاوز الحد المستهدف ، كما موضح في 1ب اعلاه.
ج- عروض الشركات:
1-   شيل والصينية والتركية:  انتاج 825,000 ب/ي  مقابل 7,89 $ لكل برميل فوق الحد المستهدف.
 لم تقبل الشركات تخفيض رقمها الى الرقم المحدد من الوزارة ، لذا رفض العرض .
 
لغرض اعطاء فرصة اخرى للشركات ، طلب منها ، و لجميع العروض المرفوضة ، أن تضع رقمها النهائي و على ان يكون قريب من رقم الوزارة قدر الامكان ، و ان تضع هذا الرقم في ظرف مختوم ، يرفع الى مجلس الوزراء لاتخاذ القرار النهائي بالرفض أو القبول .
 

*By Dhyaa Al-Murib

Al-Ghad is glad to publish an important study (in Arabic) on Iraqi Oil by a prominent commentator who covered Iraqi issues for many years. The study deals with meeting to be held in Baghdad on the 29th and 30th of June with the Iraqi Oil Minister, Dr Husain Al-Shahrstani, on which the major Iraqi Oil fields are to be thrown to the highest international bider for periods of a quarter of a century. It is our hope to publish a summary in English soon and a complete version later on.

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Mr Hasan Jum’a Awwad, president of Oil Unions Federation in Iraq has written a letter (in Arabic) to the Iraqi Prime Minister, and to several leaders of Oil Unions in the world. The letter demanded immediate removal of the Iraqi Government’s ban on Iraqi oil workers’ rights to form their trade unions, which was originally passed by the former Iraqi regime, by its decisions no. 150 and 151 in 1987. The continuation of these oppressive decisions is a flagrant breach of the present Iraqi Constitution, and of the human rights enjoyed by great majority of oil workers in the world. The Iraqi oil workers had a glorious tradition of democratic struggle to defend their rights, and will continue their militant action to regain their rightful democratic gains.

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Al-Amir - Shell Agreement Study (Arabic)

Al-Ghad is publishing an important study (in Arabic) on the Draft Agreement signed by between Shell and the Iraqi Oil Ministry.

This study is by the prominent oil and gas expert Mr Fouad al-Amir. This study comes during complex conditions in Iraq and, an unprecedented, world economic crisis. In Iraq itself the political situation has been radically transformed by the now most famous pair of shoes in the world that turned President Bush secret visit to Baghdad into an international farce, and ignited high tide of resentment and determination to throw out the invaders. This was already reflected by the rejection of the Iraqi docile Parliament of a new draft Law regulating the presence of foreign troops in the country, especially the British forces in Iraq.

In this new phase of US occupation of the country the Draft Gas Law already signed by Hussain Shahristani, the Iraq Oil Minister, comes as new aggression to loot the huge gas reserves in Iraq. This timely study Fouad al-Amir throws new light on the latest attempt to loot the country.

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Shell - Ministry of Oil Secret Agreement (English)

Shahristani Agreement on Gas Investment

Al-Ghad is publishing the confidential text (in English), of an agreement signed by the Iraqi Ministry of Oil and Shell and a further document by Oil Minister, Hussain Shahristani, proposing surrendering South Iraq Gas to Shell. The Agreement is more important and far reaching than was expected. The scope of the agreement covers the whole of gas sources in South Iraq. It gives the impression that it would be a model for further control and exploitation of the whole oil and gas of the country.

This confidential gas agreement comes at a time of vicious American efforts to force through the Status of Forces (SOFA) military agreement on the Iraqi Parliament. It shows the extents to which the US and its lackeys in the Iraqi government will go to deprive occupied Iraq not only of its sovereignty but its extensive natural resources as well.

It is our hope to publish other documents and opinions in the near future.

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Al-Amir US-Iraq Security Agreement Book (Arabic)

Al-Ghad is pleased to publish the full book (in Arabic) by our prominent contributor, Fouad Qasim Al-Amir, on the US-Iraq draft treaty. The book will be published in Iraq in next few days.

Al-Ghad has published most chapters of this important study. The release of the whole book comes in the wake of the sweeping defeat of the Bush presidency, and the resounding victory of the President-elect Barack Obama. The full text of the book, at this conjucture, will no doubt illuminate the intense battle taking place in Iraq to defeat the treaty.

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STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE STANDING COMMITTEE FOR UNIFICATION OF THE TRADE UNIONS MOVEMENT IN THE SOUTH

We Call on All workers to Unite Their Struggle Against the Passing of the
Shameful Security Agreement

Mr Jum’a Awwad, the president of the Standing Committee for the Unification of the Trade Union Movements in South Iraq, issued a statement (in Arabic below) calling for united action to reject the Security Agreement which the US is trying to impose on Iraq, as Had our people done in destroying the Portsmouth Treaty and the Baghdad Pact. He said that the Iraq working class has played a vanguard leading the popular and political mass movements in our country.

The statement is one of the current mass movements in Iraq to defeat the US draft treaty on the country with aim of perpetuating American military occupation of Iraq.

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In July, 2008 Al-Ghad published an important study of 73 pages, on the proposed security agreement between US and the Iraqi Government, by Mr Fouad Qasim Al-Amir, the well-known commentator and oil expert. Al-Ghad is glad to publish a new chapter (in Arabic) to that study covering the important vassalage relationship the US strives to impose on Iraq, under the title (SOFA), short for “Status of Force Agreement”, which was used by the US officials to cover up the real meaning and history of that concept.

The writer goes in details to present the background to this kind of relationship, and how it is being used by the US to mislead Iraqi and world opinion on its real aim to perpetuate the colonial status of occupied Iraq. This document is most relevant to what is happening today in Iraq.

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Al-Amir US-Iraq Security Agreement (Arabic)

By Fouad Qasim Al-Amir

Al-Amir US-Iraq Agreement Study (Arabic)

This is an important study of 73 pages, of the proposed security agreement between US and the Iraqi Government, by the prominent Iraqi commentator and oil expert, By Fouad Qasim Al-Amir. The author has published several important studies on the subject of occupied Iraq, mainly on the oil question in Iraq and of the subject of world energy.

Mr Al-Amir starts his study by alluding to the fact that despite the importance of the US-Iraqi agreement there is almost complete absence of official details of the proposed agreement, with the result that the author had to base his analysis and conclusions, on what has been leaked by the press and the incomplete and misleading pronouncements of US and Iraqi officials. However, the author’s unique knowledge of the country, of the oil problem and his contacts with those interested in the Iraqi affairs, compensates some of the gabs in the closely guarded subject.

He discussed, in several chapters, the relevance of Section 7, of the UN charter to Iraq, both during Iraq’s occupation of Kuwait, and that of the US, of Iraq. One of the main themes in this regards is US posture to claim that it is making a favour to Iraq by felicitating its release from the restrictions of Section 7, by Iraq signing the proposed Security Agreement. He showed that those restrictions of UN Resolution 1483, on 22 May, 2003, had been placed to define, and restrict, the US unlawful occupation of Iraq which is a victim of unlawful occupation. The author points out in many places in the study, that it is the US who is the restricted party by Section7, not Iraq.

Then the study points out the US attempt to mislead Iraqi and international public opinion in mixing-up the case of Saddam’s occupation of Kuwait in 1990, with that of US of Iraq. Here US logic turns the victim into an aggressor, and vice versa.

Towards the end of the study the author refers to the probability of US attacking Iran in the hope of escaping its failure in Iraq and the region. Mr Al-Amir warns of the serious consequences of such action and its probable results. After this the author discusses the role of the Kurdish parties, their shaky position, and the attitude of its leaders towards the situation in Iraq and the proposed US-Iraq agreement.

This Study should be read by all those interested in fate of Iraq, the region and the world.

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بيان الحزب الشيوعي العراقي – القيادة المركزية