Former Iraqi oil minister called for keeping oil ministry away from political contests and let the independent oil experts handle the issues of that potentially vital ministry.
"Let us rescue the oil ministry from those political conflicts that happened in the ministries of defence and interior, sophisticated people should be appointed to run the ministry with having enough authority to carry out their jobs professionally" said former minister Ibrahim Bahir al Olum Frideay in an interview with Radio Sawa.
This comes after New York Times newspaper reported in an article that oil minister Hussein Shahristani had not experience in the oil industry and he had become the trouble maker for the other ministries despite his own ministry.
Bahir al Olum called the government to build enough refineries to solve the problem of lacking kerosene and other fuels, which the country was suffering from for more than 5 years.
As he called the Iraqi government to take advantage from the natural Gas, claiming that now 60 per cent of Iraqi natural gas revenue was wasted on the daily bases, because it was not used properly.
Iraq exports more than 2 million barrel crude oil each day, and the rate is expected to go up to 6 million by 2010 if the Iraqi oil and Gas bill was passed.
No Comments/Trackbacks for this post yet...