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Iraq faces clash with Kurds over oil deals
http://www.kurdmedia.com/news.asp?id=12453

5/24 FT

Iraq’s newly appointed oil minister said on Tuesday that the central
government should handle all contracts related to petroleum exploration
and production,putting him on a potential collision course with
the autonomous Kurdish region which has recently begun to develop
its own oil resources

イラクの新石油担当大臣は火曜日に
最近石油資源を開発し始めた自治権があるクルド地域も含めて
中央政府が石油試掘・生産と関係がある全ての契約を処理するべきであると
述べました
それはクルドと必ず衝突することを覚悟でのもの


Hussein al-Shahristani also said at a Baghdad news conference that
the country hoped to pass an investment law soon to bring in foreign
investment to upgrade the country’s battered oil infrastructure

Shahristani氏は同じくバグダッドの記者会見で
国の破壊された石油インフラを改善する為に海外投資を導入する出資法を
間もなく通過させることを望む


“Any oil production,exports or exploration should be handled by the
[Baghdad] ministry of oil,”said Mr Shahristani,a member of the Shia-
ed United Iraqi Alliance,in one of his first statements since a national
unity government was announced at the weekend

「どんな石油産出量、輸出、試掘も全てバグダッドの石油省によって
処理されるべきです」と
挙国一致内閣が週末に発表された時から
シーア派主導のUIAのメンバーであるShahristani氏は
最初の陳述の一つで


He had earlier said that Iraq’s new government needed to get
“national agreement”from regional oil officials on ambiguous articles
in the constitution governing investment

彼は以前にも
投資を決定する憲法のあいまいな記述に基づく地域の石油当局者から
イラクの新政府が「国家的合意」を手に入れる必要がある


Under their own interpretation of the constitutional articles governing
oil resources,the northern Kurdistan regional government signed
an agreement in November with a Norwegian company to begin the first new
drilling in post-invasion Iraq.Since then,a Canadian and a Turkish
company have also began drilling in the north

石油資源を統轄する憲法の条項への彼ら自身の解釈に基づいて
クルド自治政府は
侵略後のイラクで最初に新しいボーリング開始の為に
ノルウェーの会社と11月に協定に署名
以降カナダとトルコの会社もボーリング開始


Mr Shahristani also emphasised the importance of foreign investment
in statements apparently aimed at international companies concerned that
a new government with a heavy component of Shia Islamists and Sunni Arab
nationalists might draft legislation that limits the kind of contracts
they might sign

Shahristani氏は海外からの投資の重要性も強調
シーア派イスラム至上主義者とスンニ派アラブの民族主義者で
構成される重苦しい新政府が署名するかもしれない種類の契約書を制限する
法律を立案するかもしれないと心配している国際企業を
明らかに意識しての発言


“There is [a] need to pass an oil and gas law to guarantee the right
conditions for international companies to help develop the Iraqi oil
sector,”he said

「国際企業がイラクの石油部門を開発するのを援助する条件を保証する
石油とガス法を通過させる必要」


Iraqi officials have estimated that the country may need as much as
$25bn(?20bn, £13bn)to restore and modernise an oil industry ravaged
by pre-war sanctions,post-war looting and sabotage
administrative lethargy and corruption

当局者は戦前の制裁、戦後の略奪とサボタージュ、管理上の無気力と汚職
により荒廃した石油産業の復活・近代化に約250億ドル必要と概算


Until now,Iraq’s succession of transitional and interim governments
has prevented the creation of a national oil policy
while production has remained stagnant at about 2.14m barrels a day in
April,less than the pre-war peak of 2.5m

今まで暫定政府、移行政府と\xB0