Rosneft left without Kurdish "black gold"
In June, Rosneft signed a legally binding contract with Kurdistan to buy oil and expand the oil pipeline to Turkey. But now, this contract is no longer possible to execute, Izzat Saber, head of the Kurdistan Parliament’s Finance and Economic Affairs Committee, acknowledged.
In early October, Iraq, with the help of the military, regained control of Kirkuk, one of the country's main oil provinces, which had recently been under the control of the Kurds, but was not formally part of the autonomy. In addition, the central government occupied disputed territories near Mosul in the province of Ninawa. So Baghdad responded to the referendum on the independence of Iraqi Kurdistan.
As a result, according to Izzat Saber, “the export of oil from Kurdistan decreased from 700 thousand to 200 thousand barrels per day”.
As part of the contract for the supply of oil, Rosneft has already paid Erbil $ 1 billion in advance, which the Kurdish government has sent to repay the debt to the UAE oil and gas company Dana Gas.
“In total, Rosneft was going to pay Erbil $ 3 billion, of which $ 1 billion to the Kurds to invest in the construction of the pipeline to Ceyhan, and another $ 1 billion to develop five fields that Rosneft was supposed to enter (the company announced this is October 19), ”the article says.
Earlier, the Iraqi authorities have repeatedly stated that they consider the contract between Iraqi Kurdistan and Rosneft illegal.
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