Verhoging olieproductie iraq problematisch
30 april 2005. Bijdrage geleverd door Rembrandt Koppelaar.
Voormalig irakees olieminister Issam Al-Chalabi meldt dat het minstens 2 jaar duurt om de olieproductie in iraq te verhogen naar 3.5 miljoen vaten per dag. De huidige productie ligt rond de 1.8 miljoen vaten per dag. De reservoirs in iraq zijn ernstig verwaarloosd en de constante sabotage op pijpleidingen en raffinaderijen duurt nog steeds voort. Volgens Chalabi (niet te verwarren met de huidige minister van olie Ahmad Chalabi) zijn neer dan 20% van de velden beschadigd door overproductie, is de infrastructuur voor waterinjectie ernstig beschadigd en het water dat in de velden wordt gepompt niet goed bruikbaar door bacteriele schade.
Iraq Needs 2 Years To Reach 1990 Output Levels-Ex Oil Min
WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)–A former Iraqi oil minister said Friday that it would take Iraq at least two years to boost its production to 3.5 million barrels a day, the level it produced at the time of the 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
Issam al-Chalabi, who was Iraq’s oil minister when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, said Iraq’s oil industry has been a “victim of politics” that has suffered from war damage, sabotage and neglect for years.
He told an audience at the Middle East Institute that Iraq’s policy to maximize production with little regard to maintenance started under Saddam and continues to this day.
“My main concern has always been the reservoirs,” Chalabi said. “They followed a policy of maximization of production without taking any care of the status of the reservoirs. They were reinjecting at one time over 300,000 barrels a day of different liquids into Kirkuk” oil field in southern Iraq.
Production from Iraq’s oil-rich south has fallen to 1.75 million b/d due to problems with water injection and delays in rehabilitating wells. Exports from the north have been halted because of repeated sabotage acts on the export pipeline.
Chalabi, who is no relation to acting Iraqi Oil Minister Ahmad Chalabi, said that more than 20% of the wells in Iraq were damaged, water injection facilities suffered heavy damage and the quality of the water that was injected into the wells was lowered due to bacteria.
He said only though the help of foreign oil companies could Iraq reach its long-held goal of boosting production capacity to 6 million barrels a day and even with that help, Chalabi predicted, the goal would not be reached before 2012.
But first, he said, Iraq must improve the perilous security situation, vote in a permanent government and establish the legal framework to allow foreign investment.
“Perhaps up through the end of this year, I do not expect anything real to happen,” he said. “You need to lay the fiscal grounds, the legal laws. You need to have a constitution, oil policy and a hydrocarbon law in order to bring in investors from outside. Iraq cannot develop its oil industry on its own.”
Rising tensions amongst Iraq’s various religious and ethnic groups does not bode well for the rehabilitation of the oil fields, he said.
“Saddam Hussein used oil as politics in his dealings with the outside world but it was not an issue internally. There was no regional conflict. Nowadays, the oil industry has been faced with possible regional conflict,” he said.
Chalabi said he agreed with former Iraqi interim Oil Minister Thamer al- Ghadhban and U.S. oil advisers to Iraq that a national oil company, independent from the oil ministry, should be establish as soon as possible. Saddam dissolved the Iraqi National Oil Company (INOC) in the late 1980s when Chalabi was serving as oil minister.
“I would like to see the INOC brought back just like it was with solid authority, support and backing,” said Chalabi, who also said Iraq should remain a member of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
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