Oil, electricity and the reconstruction of Iraq
(Voice of Iraq) - 27/12/2009
By: Zia terrible
dhyaaalmurib@yahoo.com
Oil has been playing the central role of the first in Iraq's economy and people's lives is the primary source of funding for the state budget and to provide hard currency to provide the people's livelihood and pay for development projects, In addition, it provides fuel for power stations that play the role of the machine that drives the wheel of the national economy and achieve well-being of the people or misery, as the case may be, so the close interrelationship between oil and electricity and ages (which replaced the development after the devastation of the long country) is not well known.
She spent the monopolistic oil companies, and its forty-eight years in the conspiracy against the Iraqi people to restore its hegemony over the oil wealth wrung them in Act No. 80 of 1961 and nationalizations that have occurred in the seventies, and there are today close to achieving this purpose through the oil licensing rounds and the resulting decades.
The strange thing is that those who are entrusted with the destiny of the people are exaggerating the compromised interests even more greedy foreigners is illustrated by the overestimation of the needs of costs as we have stated in previous articles and we will show more in this article.
After the US-led occupation in 2003 formed a committee of the United Nations called "the nuclear committee" to assess Iraq's reconstruction needs have been concluded to the conclusion that this effort requires investments worth 36 billion dollars, but the U.S. civil administrator at the time, "Paul Bremer," he added other requirements bringing the total amount requested $ 56 billion over five years, and although Iraq was has enough money then to start the process but the United States insisted on holding an international donors conference for the purpose of collecting donations to provide this amount, and was for many reasons, most important of procrastination on the subject of age and the involvement of the that opposed the invasion in dealing with the consequences of it, In the meantime, the U.S. Congress donated $ 18.5 billion, followed by the international donors conference which took place on 22 October 2003 and pledged to donate in amounts of approximately $ 14 billion after it increased to 17 billion, and the impact of the scandals that revealed American press, as Mr. Henry Waxman, vice chairman of the Budget Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives of the improper use of those funds formed body in the U.S. Congress, known as the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction SIGIR to oversee this matter, was supervised by the Office of Seger sums over one hundred and forty billion dollars , and given the enormity of the amount and importance of the fact that the activity of this institution and governed by the entire economies of Iraq did not stop will not stop in the near term, it must shed some light on the most important points related to it, especially those related to the themes of oil and electricity.
We have already published in collaboration with a team of professional researchers brotherhood series of articles that address the electricity crisis in Iraq and was the articles of comprehensive, objective and continue to maintain its vitality and Tarautea and credibility, so the brothers felt that we publish in a brochure to be a reference for researchers interested in this serious matter, We hope that this article is an introduction and an update of the seminal pamphlet, and we add to it the subject of oil is closely linked to electricity and the overall national economy and we hope that we do share so little in the public interest.
Before dwelling on the subject we would like to point out that the process of the reconstruction of Germany and Japan after World War II for the period from 1946-1954 cost $ 29.5 billion (in constant dollars in 2004).
It is known that those countries had been subjected to mass weaken Iraq has seen the greatest economists have been discharged after World War II, while we went out after spending an amount almost five times that amount in worse shape than we were before the invasion (the miseries of our situation in light of the brutal dictator) and leave it for the reader to assess the causes, and Nstmih reader Sorry prolongation in the quotation from the report of the Special Inspector General report to Congress dated 30/10/2009, as it refutes the claims of those who say that Iraq lacks the funds for this have been forced under the pressure of the strong need to resort to oil companies world to put their investments in the world's oil fields in order to transmit life.
Excerpts of the report to 30 September 2009, available amounts of approximately 141.01 billion U.S. dollars for relief and reconstruction in Iraq, has come for these funds from three main sources: - capital budgets * Iraqi and Iraqi funds that were subject to the supervision of the CPA ** 71.20 billion dollars . - International pledges of assistance from sources other than the United States of 17.02 billion dollars. - Customizations United States $ 52.8 billion. - The detailed figures show what is to come: - Iraq's total funding - including 71.20 billion U.S. dollars capital budgets of $ 59.13 billion phase of the CPA ** 12.07 billion dollars - U.S. funding 52.80 billion dollars, and includes a relief fund and reconstruction of Iraq to $ 20.86 billion fund Iraqi security forces U.S. $ 18.04 billion Economic Support Fund at $ 4.18 billion program leader of the emergency response to $ 3.65 billion others (not spent) of $ 6.07 billion - Total international funding of $ 10.96 billion bilateral multilateral 6.05 billion dollars, the report added: "The Seger being under investigation amounts 35.2 billion U.S. financial transactions are on the expenditures of the Ministry of Defense (U.S.) for the diagnosis of unusual transactions or suspicious transactions that might indicate fraud, waste or misconduct in the transfer or management contracts. "
No, dear reader, that 66.66% of the transactions implemented with the United States are subject to suspicion, let alone the money of the Iraqi people who have ordered?!
In fact, in order not to do wrong to anyone firing profiles on the "aid" the U.S. cite statements by Mrs. Hillary Clinton and the important role of Minister for Foreign Affairs of the United States before the Council on Foreign Relations in July 15, 2009, as she said, in her speech about foreign aid for the development of foreign countries, what is to come: "Let us face it! we have devoted a percentage of our budget, the State Development less than any other developed country, although we spent very little has contributed to the achievement of real and lasting progress, but quite a lot of money did not arrive at all to specific goals, but he remained here in America to pay salaries or financing of public expenditures for contracting. "
Mentioned in previous articles that estimates of the former oil minister and other international organizations confirmed that the costs of development of Iraqi fields discovered but not developed, and access to oil production levels of 6-8 m PS does not exceed $ 25 billion.
However, the current minister started walking up these costs are slowly tried to get to one hundred (100) billion dollars, the escalation Let us remark that, to understand its significance, as it says in a report by the Energy Information Administration EIA of the U.S. Department of Energy in August 2007 as follows: "Based on the reports issued by various government agencies (the U.S.) and multinational corporations and other international organizations, the longer term costs of reconstruction in Iraq amount to one hundred (100) billion dollars or more is estimated that more than a third goes to the sectors of oil, gas and electricity, in addition to, the Bank Bank estimates that at least one billion dollars of additional revenue should be required annually for the oil industry just to sustain the current production level. "
Energy Information Administration: briefings country analysis / Iraq) August 2007 and goes on to say that the prices of goods and service markets are far less than it was in 2007, how can we increase the costs of developing Iraqi oil fields alone, without electricity and gas to one hundred billion dollars?
* According to a report in British newspaper The Independent June 21, 2009 as follows: "The need for (Iraqi) government the urgent need to increase oil production at the time did not have any money to invest have saved no choice but to resort to giant oil companies, says Iraqi Oil Minister Hussein Shahristani said required fifty (50) billion dollars for the purpose of investment, which does not have that amount. "
* According to statements made by the Minister of oil to the Agency for the fourth (secret) news agency in the 18/10/2009, "We invest more than $ 100 billion and without the Iraqi government does not instruct one dollar subsidies to the ministry."
The period between June 21 and October 18 is less than four months, however, increased estimates of investments needed fifty to one hundred billion dollars, not raise suspicion among every sincere keen interest of the country?
I have discussed the dire consequences of being misled by lies, companies that exaggerate appreciated investments.
* Report says the Special Inspector General - Seger - for the reconstruction of Iraq in April 2009 that: The slowing down of rates in the implementation of the 2005-2007 budget has caused the accumulation of nearly 29 billion dollars of surplus to the Treasury Iraq, "The report set out the table the following financial reserves and cash to the Iraqi government: Year financial reserves accumulated cash reserves 2005 6 billion U.S. $ 12 billion 2006 15 billion $ 19 billion 2007 29 billion dollars, 31.70 billion 2008 46 billion dollars, 50.20 billion dollars in addition to the money that was already available after the occupation of more than $ 30 billion if the government actually exercising sovereignty over its financial resources and reserves of these resources are exhausted, said delivery of the capabilities of the country and its wealth to foreign monopolies.
The words of the Minister that did not bother "the Iraqi government nor U.S. (sic) and one" is to return it handed over to the companies 94 billion barrels of 115 billion barrels of total reserves of Iraq that the value of these reserves by the rate of current prices than 7.4 trillion dollars can be increased to more than 10 trillion in a few months, Is it worth compromising the national interest? There is another aspect of the statements The Minister referred to above where he said that his ministry had made to the end of the second month of "surplus (sic), which are allocated in the budget by half a billion dollars ... More importantly, in the four last months of this year will be a surplus each month, at least one billion dollars, so be up to four or five billion dollars surplus than planned in the budget in 2009 "and in turn call the House of Representatives to approve the supplementary budget immediately" because the disabled is "an injustice against the Iraqi people."
This is odd since the sovereignty speaks as if he had achieved miracles, and one can wonder what is the role of the Ministry of Oil in it?
Do you had previously predicted that oil prices rise after back tyranny in the last year? Not at all given that the budget had been placed on a price assumption of $ 50 a barrel .. Not even the director of the Oil Marketing Falah al-Ameri was made to plan the budget on the basis of price assumption of $ 20 a barrel, would indicate that the lowest level of understanding of the dynamics of the market and the global energy needs it?
Add to this the basis of export figures given by the Minister in his remarks, a million barrels of daily oil exports to be achieved by the increase in revenue is more than that as evidenced by the following facts:
1) The prices were achieved for the OPEC basket of crudes in 2009 according to the published as follows: January 41.54 February 41.41 March 45.78 April 50.2 May 56.98 June 68.36 July 64.59 August 71.35 September 67.17 October 72.67 November 76.29 December rate of 77.5 if you include the last eight months of this year, which exceeded the average price barrier fifty dollars, which Iraqi state budget built on the basis of Vtkon proceeds as is coming: the average price for the last eight months = 69,413 Iraqi revenues during this period by two million barrels per day = 8 × 2 × 30 × 69.413 = 33.318 billion estimated revenue as the previous price = 24 billion difference = 9.318 billion dollars or about twice the amount that was mentioned by the Minister. -
What is the reason for this big difference?
2) If you include the annual rate of exports in 2009 multiplied by the speculative Vicu as follows: 2 × 30 × 61.186 × 12 = 44.053 billion.
For 36 billion budget gap remains speculative and 8 billion dollars, what happened this difference at a time when Mr. Minister, that Iraqi oil is sold at higher prices of some of OPEC's reference crude oil, especially Saudi and Kuwaiti average?
The Minister stressed in his comments above that "companies which - well - refused to sign the contracts now made (Rdkha) to sign those contracts and requests were made at the price set by Iraq and then goes on to identify the companies in question. We do not know what kind of" Alrdk "which was his companies, aware in advance that the conditions have contributed to its representatives, directly or indirectly, in its essence, and to demonstrate that we refer to the article The New York Times and well-informed and influential, that the article entitled (the United States has provided advice to the ministry about the Iraqi oil deals) as of 30 / 6 / 2008, which stated: "U.S. officials say that a group of American advisers led by a small team from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs played a pivotal role in the drafting of contracts between the Iraqi government and five major Western oil companies to develop some of the largest fields in Iraq."
The paper went on to say: "We have provided the U.S. government lawyers and advisers to the private sector - their role as advisers to the Iraqi Oil Ministry - They have standard contracts and detailed suggestions on the drafting of contracts according to his senior official in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The paper went on, saying "I have been to the cash transactions by opponents of the Iraq war, who accuse the Bush administration is working behind the scenes to ensure Western access to Iraqi oil fields even though most other countries exporting oil has put severe constraints to narrow the roles of international oil companies in development.
Not We want to elaborate more than that. It is enough to point out the strong opposition which it had received contracts from a wide spectrum of employees of the Oil Ministry, was the latest example of this was made by Mr. Tamer Abbas Ghadhban and former oil minister and adviser to the prime minister for energy.
There is nothing wrong than to quote the report Radio Sawa's broadcast in July and said: "It is noteworthy that the Southern Oil Company actually based in Basra province, and employs more than 20 thousand employees have been seen in within one year after removal of three directors, all of them opposed to the round of licenses are first Jabbar Laibi and the struggle of Naaman Grace and Fayyad al-Musawi. "Is it reward for good other than good?! note that the company had made a recent increase in exports of more than 400 thousand barrels a day!!. Before we conclude our talk about the Minister of oil we would like to point out another important point contained in the statements where He said that his ministry had made a huge step up production (once again said production and export) to 2.5 m b j, and we wish to refer to the latest report issued by Seger to Congress in 30/10/2009, where it states: "The average crude oil production This chapter 2.49 m by me and this is lower than the target level of production by the Iraqi government $ 2.5 m by me.
"The rates of crude oil exports in this chapter has reached 2.01 m b j, and notes from Almertsm chart attached to the highest level of production in the period After the invasion, in 2004, increased to 2.5 m b j, while the current rate of less than this level. stated in an earlier report to Seger to the Iraqi Oil Ministry has abandoned its goal of achieving production to the level of 2.8 m by me and it reduced the target by more than 400 thousand barrels per day, is that Iraq is indispensable in such quantities of oil that can be achieved and imports of the budget of more than seven billion dollars on the assumption that the price of oil at $ 50 per barrel?
Let us now turn to Mr. Karim Wahid, Minister of Electricity, who won his ministry greater consensus in the history of Iraq at all of the criticism and resentment, and even ridicule and make fun of by the various sectors of the Iraqi people, without exception, but this is an unprecedented consensus did not stop him that seems objectionable to those millions and declares: "As you know, Dr. Karim Wahid is not known at the local level, but only known at the international level and regional levels and was a mistake from the Governing Council at the time Bazle from the ministry after the ministry received after the fall of 2003. "After the double for the same unlimited praise, Mr. Minister raises a number of points as follows:
1) that he has received" a huge legacy of signed contracts, and great corruption * joints in all the technical administrative and financial resources.
2) has repeatedly promised to expose all contracts, but it did not.
3) and a portion of these contracts have been submitted to international arbitration was the case and make the other part is still and the other is to negotiate with companies to address them and now some of the contracts, or almost all of them in the process of achievement and these contracts will add electricity this summer. "
4) was formerly a contract signed outside Iraq by the Minister and this is a violation of the Constitution.
5) year plan was developed in 11/2006, and is worth mentioning that is not set up ten-year plan in the Ministry of Electricity since 1976.
6) I toured with great companies Siemens and GEC in Oman and the United States and tabled all payments in personal efforts, a task that was supposed to be carried out by a committee of the Council of Ministers of Finance or the Ministry of Planning for the topic I took on my shoulders and I met with international banks to finance these contracts in the future.
Thus, abolished the sovereignty of the roles and finance and planning ministries and the prime minister and the central bank and even the Ministry of Resources and Irrigation water, we do not know who gave these powers, which no one dared to practice not only in the past and the present.
I wonder why did not focus the members of the House of Representatives on these points in the questioning of the minister, who acknowledges that the signing of contracts outside the country of violating the constitution is exercised day and night , then there is news that was aired by independent Voices of Iraq in addition to the Agency and the official press in 6/9/2008 was that "the delegation headed by Minister of Electricity Kareem Waheed left Iraq on Friday 5 / 9 on his way to Amman for a meeting today on the first round of talks with the company GE regarding a contract to set up power plants in Iraq, "We have said then in Episode 2, entitled (return on the issue of electricity in Iraq):
The first question that comes to mind: why the talks in Amman? Is there any intention to build electric projects in Jordan or Iraq ? claim on the plan is Sahsah decimal point and to what we wrote in the first episode of our articles, which was entitled Plan (the explosive in the electricity sector) on 6/7/2008.
First - A Ten-Year Plan of the Ministry 2004 -15-2 established in October 2004 in the forefront in paragraph (3) under the door (the plan to build generating capacity) what is to come: and take action and efforts to ensure the continuity of power supply to all consumers and to reduce the hours of work pieces programmed and confined to a final in 2007, "... etc.. Why deny the minister is now a ten-year plan before receiving the primary responsibility in the ministry?
If the service was a pioneer of public interest what is the difference for him if he was the first or second of a ten-year plan?
In any case, the lesson is not to develop plans to implement, but we have seen that implementation varies in place despite the allegations of the petition to end the crisis and near the transition to export, we have shown in previous articles published on many sites in the network of information and in the Government Gazette glitches in the morning policy pursued by the Ministry of Electricity and discreet ways to solve them, but officials Egataiwn Egataiwn and the degree of irony and the people the brunt of fire failed and progress in the reconstruction of Iraq is fraught with risk factors of failure.
We had dealt with many aspects of this subject and we add here to refute misleading allegations launched by the Minister and officials of his ministry so that public opinion aware of the reality of the situation. We do not find better than the report of the _ Seger referred to above. * The average daily power generation hit a record in this Chapter for the post-war period, amounting to 4919 MW per day (including an average of 319 megawatts of electricity importer).
While the officials from the Ministry of Electricity and confirm that it had increased to 9500 MW). Seger on the report in the August 28, 2008 PROFILE U.S. has committed the United States the amount of $ 4.65 billion and spent about 4.42 billion for the electricity sector in Iraq.
The Iraqi Government has allocated in 2008 $ 1.3 billion for capital projects (investment) to electric. As of June 2008 has been launched $ 708 million of this amount to the ministry, which spent about $ 229 million, in an annex to the 2008 budget passed in August and the Government of Iraq provided an additional $ (1.03) billion dollars to the Ministry of Electricity.
Note that the ministry had spent only 32% of what was paid, however suffer from lack of resources and accuses the prime minister to do so. As for the issue of generating capacity came in the report: The generating capacity of Iraqis last is about 9600 MW, the gap between capacity and actual production stemmed from the misery of maintenance practices and the use of fuels and the absence of the appropriate distribution and the scarcity of water supply.
The generating capacity available is the 9834 generation of daily living (including imports) 4919 The report went on to say: I have asked the Ministry of Oil recently helped Decades GE, Siemens, Seger said a report submitted on 30 October to Congress that the Iraqi Council of Representatives refused to approve The issuance of treasury bonds for the payment of two decades, GE, Siemens, but the central bank agreed to lend to the government of Iraqi banks for the payment of those amounts, and added "According to sources, the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, the Office of the Treasury has exercised control of the situation and encouraged the Iraqi government to finance other payables to GE and ongoing payments as of 30 September 2009."
What excuse minister then complain of lack of funding, and Seger confirms the very important point we have already in our past which is to achieve modernization and development in other sectors of the network of transmission and distribution, etc., in which it says: "As said earlier, Seger large increases in generating capacity must be accompanied by updates in the transmission and distribution systems and only the Iraqi regimes will not be able to meet the increasing loads. and did not know the embassy of the signing of any contracts to facilitate the set up equipment or make necessary updates to the national grid, and furthermore, the availability of adequate supplies and detailed fuel will determine the success of the performance of these Stations, "stressing that the gas turbine plants that run on natural gas and installed in Erbil and Sulaymaniyah have achieved operational efficiency by 76% of manufacturing capacity compared to 31%. The other stations.
These statements reverse all statements made by the Minister of Electricity and officials of his ministry on the achievements of the ministry, not far About Dr. Kamel to network (views) of space and published in the 18.4.2009, which stated: "I was raise production to 40% during the first months and the appreciation of the United Nations and the number that we have reached is 7000 MW and will arrive during the summer if it was put water well more than this figure.
"Despite the lack of information sources other than the Seger confirm that plants in Kurdistan has already achieved this percentage of performance once the use of natural gas but it is certain that the efficiency of gas units using improper fuel may decline to 31%, and it is equally certain that this percentage rises when you convert units of simple cycle to combined cycle, especially when the optimal use of fuel is natural gas.
We have this fact in previous workshops and documented statistics from many countries of the world, especially the United States, Canada and others, one of the leading countries in the manufacture of gas turbines and use. We do not want to go back and statements that have brought the production of Electricity to more than ten thousand MW and this figure compares with the reports of Seger and the U.S. Department of State:
Table (2-23) of the report of 30 October 2009 that the electricity supply for the day was as follows 30/9/2009 : 5209 MW power plants produce 669 megawatts imports 560 megawatts of the plants in Irbil and Sulaymaniyah, which are subject to the private sector and, therefore, by virtue of electricity importer.
According to p. 62 of the report as follows: "The increase in the amount of processing about 1951 MW which was added to the national grid during the past two years, accounting for more than half just to repairs or expansions in power plants owned by the Iraqi government and spent by the United States more than two billion dollars, was about 29% of the increase of new power plants built by private investors in the province of Kurdistan, said 19% of the increase by imports from neighboring countries."
This means that imports from Turkey, Iran and the purchase of the Kurdistan region is 936 MW. Confirms the graph on the production and consumption of electricity published in the report mentioned that the production for the period from 1 / 7 to 30 / 9 of the year 2008 was 117,849 MW. Hours of obstetric card 4910 MW and if it is put in this figure is by importing the import proceeds be less than 4000 m and while the pre-invasion production was 90000 MW-hour card 3750 MB Watts.
And make sure these numbers are also issued on schedule (weekly report on conditions in Iraq) issued by the U.S. State Department. This indicates Almertsm chart, which gives the electricity for the month of September 2009 that the available capacity is about 11200 MW, while the processing of daily accounts for 55% of the available capacity is the result would be 6160 m, and if we raised the import of what is straight economic wisely and that the former increased by 936 to be collected is 5224 MW and the difference between this figure and the figure mentioned by the minister is about 2000 MW.
Whatever our heart in the numbers and where the yen and faces, we find a glaring contradiction between the statements of the minister and officials from his ministry and the reality. The units on the GE and Siemens, which he described as the minister will change the map of power in Iraq and solve the crisis of 2011 and the movement of Iraq to the country of origin in 2012 was said by the Inspector that the relevant civil engineering work to install these units are not expected to begin before the end of 2010 or the beginning of 2011 and it will not be finalized until after a period ranging from two to six years from that date, ie, actual production will not begin before 2013 to 2017.
If we accept all the facts confirmed that the efficiency of production will not exceed 31% of the manufacturing capacity it means that it will not add more than 4000 MW at best, and if we combine this figure with the current production of less than 5000 MW will be the total 9000 MW, while Demand Then will be between 15000-17000 MW according to estimates by the central ministry's plan by Mr. Qusay Abdul Sattar in the Energy Conference held in Amman on 9-10 December 2008, noting that these units are as we have stressed earlier to cover peak loads and emergencies, not for pregnancy basis.
We stayed there two points giving rise before the conclusion of this first article on corruption in tenders and the second new issues by the Ministry. Here is not to say what is the subject of widespread corruption in the Ministry of Electricity and practices which is a lot, thank God, like the rest of the Iraqi ministries and Iraqi state institutions, as we have Sultna highlighted in an earlier one based on the report of the Integrity, but want to point to companies that contracted by the Ministry of Electricity, has talked in detail on the imaginary companies or specially-formed in some U.S. states to get "rich contracts" from the Ministry of Electricity and later proved to be based on the memorial and fraud are the main protagonist, Khatib sexual Rozko Syrian-born Tony (TONY REZKO) now detained in the U.S. Sixteen charged with fraud, deception, and Vulcan Power Company (Vulcan) the U.S., and other agencies and companies suspected fake abroad, Iraq, Oman and other transactions which are held on behalf of the Ministry of Electricity.
Then came the proposed contract with Al-Kharafi, who rejected the Kuwaiti National Assembly on grounds of corruption, and then rejected by the Iraqi Prime Minister. She wrote the Daily Telegraph newspapers and Alvaninchal Times in Heiligendamm, on rumors of corruption took place at the General Electric Company of America.
Finally came a scandal Germany's Siemens and its involvement in corruption cases, has revealed to the World Bank's involvement Siemens corruption cases where the huge pay $ 1.50 billion in bribes to obtain contracts abroad.
The decision was made by the World Bank in July 2009 announcing the settlement was between the bank and the company whereby the latter undertook to pay a hundred million dollars over the past fifteen years to support anti-corruption activities to atone for the corrupt practices of its subsidiary in Russia. She said one of the agencies that "Siemens has recognized that it may have caused reduction of 1.3 billion euros (equivalent to $ 1.8 billion) illegally to win foreign contracts.
This is The Independent newspaper a few weeks ago that the company had acknowledged that they exercised bribes in many countries, including the program of oil for food program in Iraq and get the contracts between the years 2000-2008 in many countries, including Iraq.
What do you think is a selection of these companies came to the innocent or the reasons for accident or That behind heal what is behind it? Ask the people of Remembrance if you do not know.
New tenders and issues of cost and the Ministry of Electricity, published on its website a declaration calling on private investors to build a number of obstetric units of the type of gas turbines and thermal power stations in a number of governorates of Iraq in various capacities totaling 3500 MW and the estimated cost identified by one million dollars per MW , for gas turbines and 667 thousand dollars for the thermal plants.
As stated in a news release from the ministry in the 25/11/2009 that at its meeting held on 23/11 included Messrs. Minister of Electricity d. Dr. Karim Wahid. Sami Araji, head of the National Investment Commission and a number of investors to discuss the building projects of electric power stations in the northern and southern capacity (5000) five thousand megawatts, was introduced by the Minister in the presence of a number of gentlemen, officials in the ministry investment map of the ministry, etc..
The truth is that these actions come - it seems - the implementation of the plan of the central Ministry to which we referred above, that is notable is the significant rise in the estimated costs set by the ministry.
We have already discussed in an episode of our articles on the subject of electricity costs on the basis of reference sources in the world, as well as the uncertainty surrounding the minister's comments in this regard, where he was reluctant to give specific figures on the cost, perhaps due to an abundance of caution on transparency, we would like to point out the facts today the following:
1) speculative that the cost of the equipment required supplementary supply contract for the completion of GE and Siemens as well as civil engineering works, installation and operation is estimated at 325 thousand dollars for megabytes per watt by the ministry estimates. If the cost of the contract with G Any processing turbines 7000 MW capacity is 3 billion dollars, a rate of 429 thousand dollars for megabytes per watt, it should in this case that does not exceed the total cost of 754 thousand dollars for megabytes per watt (and this is also a high cost for international standards). Why put the roof of the ministry entrusted to one million dollars in speculative? Is that considered a matter of providing for the emergency or what? .
2) Below are some indicators of past prices of megabytes per watt based on the draft ready: the Chinese company, Frame 9 304800 dollars Ela 79402 327500 Siemens 79402 420900 U.S. dollars GE Frame 9 428300 dollars, which is worth mentioning that the Jordanian Ministry of Energy and HANWHA Korean company signed a contract (the at the end of 2009) expanded the black power station the third phase consists of two Gazitin 142.9 MW capacity per unit and total capacity of 285.8 MW project, where the total value of JD 138 project any cost (686 U.S. dollars) of megabytes per watt, with taking into account the very strict specifications and requirements of environmental conditions with regard to greenhouse gases and oxides of nitrogen.
Why is this huge price disparity?
What is the interpretation of this waste money the Iraqi people?
Where oversight and transparency?
Is one expected to be transparent while the minister himself admits that he is touring the countries of the world and negotiate various matters with the banks, companies and institutions without impunity, while acknowledging that this is not arrived in his life?
If any doubt, of some Balakulaiat, which are not the Ministry of Electricity transfer agent earlier statements to the Ministry of Electricity Mr. Raad Sentinel published in the newspaper range 24/1/2009.
Finally, the agent of the Ministry of Electricity is the oldest of his "If we want to actually work correctly and vigorously and the exclusion of all the instructions and away from the integrity and reports can provide more than 3000 MW during the summer to the country."
Blessed is the democracy and its people!!
(Voice of Iraq) - 27/12/2009
By: Zia terrible
dhyaaalmurib@yahoo.com
Oil has been playing the central role of the first in Iraq's economy and people's lives is the primary source of funding for the state budget and to provide hard currency to provide the people's livelihood and pay for development projects, In addition, it provides fuel for power stations that play the role of the machine that drives the wheel of the national economy and achieve well-being of the people or misery, as the case may be, so the close interrelationship between oil and electricity and ages (which replaced the development after the devastation of the long country) is not well known.
She spent the monopolistic oil companies, and its forty-eight years in the conspiracy against the Iraqi people to restore its hegemony over the oil wealth wrung them in Act No. 80 of 1961 and nationalizations that have occurred in the seventies, and there are today close to achieving this purpose through the oil licensing rounds and the resulting decades.
The strange thing is that those who are entrusted with the destiny of the people are exaggerating the compromised interests even more greedy foreigners is illustrated by the overestimation of the needs of costs as we have stated in previous articles and we will show more in this article.
After the US-led occupation in 2003 formed a committee of the United Nations called "the nuclear committee" to assess Iraq's reconstruction needs have been concluded to the conclusion that this effort requires investments worth 36 billion dollars, but the U.S. civil administrator at the time, "Paul Bremer," he added other requirements bringing the total amount requested $ 56 billion over five years, and although Iraq was has enough money then to start the process but the United States insisted on holding an international donors conference for the purpose of collecting donations to provide this amount, and was for many reasons, most important of procrastination on the subject of age and the involvement of the that opposed the invasion in dealing with the consequences of it, In the meantime, the U.S. Congress donated $ 18.5 billion, followed by the international donors conference which took place on 22 October 2003 and pledged to donate in amounts of approximately $ 14 billion after it increased to 17 billion, and the impact of the scandals that revealed American press, as Mr. Henry Waxman, vice chairman of the Budget Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives of the improper use of those funds formed body in the U.S. Congress, known as the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction SIGIR to oversee this matter, was supervised by the Office of Seger sums over one hundred and forty billion dollars , and given the enormity of the amount and importance of the fact that the activity of this institution and governed by the entire economies of Iraq did not stop will not stop in the near term, it must shed some light on the most important points related to it, especially those related to the themes of oil and electricity.
We have already published in collaboration with a team of professional researchers brotherhood series of articles that address the electricity crisis in Iraq and was the articles of comprehensive, objective and continue to maintain its vitality and Tarautea and credibility, so the brothers felt that we publish in a brochure to be a reference for researchers interested in this serious matter, We hope that this article is an introduction and an update of the seminal pamphlet, and we add to it the subject of oil is closely linked to electricity and the overall national economy and we hope that we do share so little in the public interest.
Before dwelling on the subject we would like to point out that the process of the reconstruction of Germany and Japan after World War II for the period from 1946-1954 cost $ 29.5 billion (in constant dollars in 2004).
It is known that those countries had been subjected to mass weaken Iraq has seen the greatest economists have been discharged after World War II, while we went out after spending an amount almost five times that amount in worse shape than we were before the invasion (the miseries of our situation in light of the brutal dictator) and leave it for the reader to assess the causes, and Nstmih reader Sorry prolongation in the quotation from the report of the Special Inspector General report to Congress dated 30/10/2009, as it refutes the claims of those who say that Iraq lacks the funds for this have been forced under the pressure of the strong need to resort to oil companies world to put their investments in the world's oil fields in order to transmit life.
Excerpts of the report to 30 September 2009, available amounts of approximately 141.01 billion U.S. dollars for relief and reconstruction in Iraq, has come for these funds from three main sources: - capital budgets * Iraqi and Iraqi funds that were subject to the supervision of the CPA ** 71.20 billion dollars . - International pledges of assistance from sources other than the United States of 17.02 billion dollars. - Customizations United States $ 52.8 billion. - The detailed figures show what is to come: - Iraq's total funding - including 71.20 billion U.S. dollars capital budgets of $ 59.13 billion phase of the CPA ** 12.07 billion dollars - U.S. funding 52.80 billion dollars, and includes a relief fund and reconstruction of Iraq to $ 20.86 billion fund Iraqi security forces U.S. $ 18.04 billion Economic Support Fund at $ 4.18 billion program leader of the emergency response to $ 3.65 billion others (not spent) of $ 6.07 billion - Total international funding of $ 10.96 billion bilateral multilateral 6.05 billion dollars, the report added: "The Seger being under investigation amounts 35.2 billion U.S. financial transactions are on the expenditures of the Ministry of Defense (U.S.) for the diagnosis of unusual transactions or suspicious transactions that might indicate fraud, waste or misconduct in the transfer or management contracts. "
No, dear reader, that 66.66% of the transactions implemented with the United States are subject to suspicion, let alone the money of the Iraqi people who have ordered?!
In fact, in order not to do wrong to anyone firing profiles on the "aid" the U.S. cite statements by Mrs. Hillary Clinton and the important role of Minister for Foreign Affairs of the United States before the Council on Foreign Relations in July 15, 2009, as she said, in her speech about foreign aid for the development of foreign countries, what is to come: "Let us face it! we have devoted a percentage of our budget, the State Development less than any other developed country, although we spent very little has contributed to the achievement of real and lasting progress, but quite a lot of money did not arrive at all to specific goals, but he remained here in America to pay salaries or financing of public expenditures for contracting. "
Mentioned in previous articles that estimates of the former oil minister and other international organizations confirmed that the costs of development of Iraqi fields discovered but not developed, and access to oil production levels of 6-8 m PS does not exceed $ 25 billion.
However, the current minister started walking up these costs are slowly tried to get to one hundred (100) billion dollars, the escalation Let us remark that, to understand its significance, as it says in a report by the Energy Information Administration EIA of the U.S. Department of Energy in August 2007 as follows: "Based on the reports issued by various government agencies (the U.S.) and multinational corporations and other international organizations, the longer term costs of reconstruction in Iraq amount to one hundred (100) billion dollars or more is estimated that more than a third goes to the sectors of oil, gas and electricity, in addition to, the Bank Bank estimates that at least one billion dollars of additional revenue should be required annually for the oil industry just to sustain the current production level. "
Energy Information Administration: briefings country analysis / Iraq) August 2007 and goes on to say that the prices of goods and service markets are far less than it was in 2007, how can we increase the costs of developing Iraqi oil fields alone, without electricity and gas to one hundred billion dollars?
* According to a report in British newspaper The Independent June 21, 2009 as follows: "The need for (Iraqi) government the urgent need to increase oil production at the time did not have any money to invest have saved no choice but to resort to giant oil companies, says Iraqi Oil Minister Hussein Shahristani said required fifty (50) billion dollars for the purpose of investment, which does not have that amount. "
* According to statements made by the Minister of oil to the Agency for the fourth (secret) news agency in the 18/10/2009, "We invest more than $ 100 billion and without the Iraqi government does not instruct one dollar subsidies to the ministry."
The period between June 21 and October 18 is less than four months, however, increased estimates of investments needed fifty to one hundred billion dollars, not raise suspicion among every sincere keen interest of the country?
I have discussed the dire consequences of being misled by lies, companies that exaggerate appreciated investments.
* Report says the Special Inspector General - Seger - for the reconstruction of Iraq in April 2009 that: The slowing down of rates in the implementation of the 2005-2007 budget has caused the accumulation of nearly 29 billion dollars of surplus to the Treasury Iraq, "The report set out the table the following financial reserves and cash to the Iraqi government: Year financial reserves accumulated cash reserves 2005 6 billion U.S. $ 12 billion 2006 15 billion $ 19 billion 2007 29 billion dollars, 31.70 billion 2008 46 billion dollars, 50.20 billion dollars in addition to the money that was already available after the occupation of more than $ 30 billion if the government actually exercising sovereignty over its financial resources and reserves of these resources are exhausted, said delivery of the capabilities of the country and its wealth to foreign monopolies.
The words of the Minister that did not bother "the Iraqi government nor U.S. (sic) and one" is to return it handed over to the companies 94 billion barrels of 115 billion barrels of total reserves of Iraq that the value of these reserves by the rate of current prices than 7.4 trillion dollars can be increased to more than 10 trillion in a few months, Is it worth compromising the national interest? There is another aspect of the statements The Minister referred to above where he said that his ministry had made to the end of the second month of "surplus (sic), which are allocated in the budget by half a billion dollars ... More importantly, in the four last months of this year will be a surplus each month, at least one billion dollars, so be up to four or five billion dollars surplus than planned in the budget in 2009 "and in turn call the House of Representatives to approve the supplementary budget immediately" because the disabled is "an injustice against the Iraqi people."
This is odd since the sovereignty speaks as if he had achieved miracles, and one can wonder what is the role of the Ministry of Oil in it?
Do you had previously predicted that oil prices rise after back tyranny in the last year? Not at all given that the budget had been placed on a price assumption of $ 50 a barrel .. Not even the director of the Oil Marketing Falah al-Ameri was made to plan the budget on the basis of price assumption of $ 20 a barrel, would indicate that the lowest level of understanding of the dynamics of the market and the global energy needs it?
Add to this the basis of export figures given by the Minister in his remarks, a million barrels of daily oil exports to be achieved by the increase in revenue is more than that as evidenced by the following facts:
1) The prices were achieved for the OPEC basket of crudes in 2009 according to the published as follows: January 41.54 February 41.41 March 45.78 April 50.2 May 56.98 June 68.36 July 64.59 August 71.35 September 67.17 October 72.67 November 76.29 December rate of 77.5 if you include the last eight months of this year, which exceeded the average price barrier fifty dollars, which Iraqi state budget built on the basis of Vtkon proceeds as is coming: the average price for the last eight months = 69,413 Iraqi revenues during this period by two million barrels per day = 8 × 2 × 30 × 69.413 = 33.318 billion estimated revenue as the previous price = 24 billion difference = 9.318 billion dollars or about twice the amount that was mentioned by the Minister. -
What is the reason for this big difference?
2) If you include the annual rate of exports in 2009 multiplied by the speculative Vicu as follows: 2 × 30 × 61.186 × 12 = 44.053 billion.
For 36 billion budget gap remains speculative and 8 billion dollars, what happened this difference at a time when Mr. Minister, that Iraqi oil is sold at higher prices of some of OPEC's reference crude oil, especially Saudi and Kuwaiti average?
The Minister stressed in his comments above that "companies which - well - refused to sign the contracts now made (Rdkha) to sign those contracts and requests were made at the price set by Iraq and then goes on to identify the companies in question. We do not know what kind of" Alrdk "which was his companies, aware in advance that the conditions have contributed to its representatives, directly or indirectly, in its essence, and to demonstrate that we refer to the article The New York Times and well-informed and influential, that the article entitled (the United States has provided advice to the ministry about the Iraqi oil deals) as of 30 / 6 / 2008, which stated: "U.S. officials say that a group of American advisers led by a small team from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs played a pivotal role in the drafting of contracts between the Iraqi government and five major Western oil companies to develop some of the largest fields in Iraq."
The paper went on to say: "We have provided the U.S. government lawyers and advisers to the private sector - their role as advisers to the Iraqi Oil Ministry - They have standard contracts and detailed suggestions on the drafting of contracts according to his senior official in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The paper went on, saying "I have been to the cash transactions by opponents of the Iraq war, who accuse the Bush administration is working behind the scenes to ensure Western access to Iraqi oil fields even though most other countries exporting oil has put severe constraints to narrow the roles of international oil companies in development.
Not We want to elaborate more than that. It is enough to point out the strong opposition which it had received contracts from a wide spectrum of employees of the Oil Ministry, was the latest example of this was made by Mr. Tamer Abbas Ghadhban and former oil minister and adviser to the prime minister for energy.
There is nothing wrong than to quote the report Radio Sawa's broadcast in July and said: "It is noteworthy that the Southern Oil Company actually based in Basra province, and employs more than 20 thousand employees have been seen in within one year after removal of three directors, all of them opposed to the round of licenses are first Jabbar Laibi and the struggle of Naaman Grace and Fayyad al-Musawi. "Is it reward for good other than good?! note that the company had made a recent increase in exports of more than 400 thousand barrels a day!!. Before we conclude our talk about the Minister of oil we would like to point out another important point contained in the statements where He said that his ministry had made a huge step up production (once again said production and export) to 2.5 m b j, and we wish to refer to the latest report issued by Seger to Congress in 30/10/2009, where it states: "The average crude oil production This chapter 2.49 m by me and this is lower than the target level of production by the Iraqi government $ 2.5 m by me.
"The rates of crude oil exports in this chapter has reached 2.01 m b j, and notes from Almertsm chart attached to the highest level of production in the period After the invasion, in 2004, increased to 2.5 m b j, while the current rate of less than this level. stated in an earlier report to Seger to the Iraqi Oil Ministry has abandoned its goal of achieving production to the level of 2.8 m by me and it reduced the target by more than 400 thousand barrels per day, is that Iraq is indispensable in such quantities of oil that can be achieved and imports of the budget of more than seven billion dollars on the assumption that the price of oil at $ 50 per barrel?
Let us now turn to Mr. Karim Wahid, Minister of Electricity, who won his ministry greater consensus in the history of Iraq at all of the criticism and resentment, and even ridicule and make fun of by the various sectors of the Iraqi people, without exception, but this is an unprecedented consensus did not stop him that seems objectionable to those millions and declares: "As you know, Dr. Karim Wahid is not known at the local level, but only known at the international level and regional levels and was a mistake from the Governing Council at the time Bazle from the ministry after the ministry received after the fall of 2003. "After the double for the same unlimited praise, Mr. Minister raises a number of points as follows:
1) that he has received" a huge legacy of signed contracts, and great corruption * joints in all the technical administrative and financial resources.
2) has repeatedly promised to expose all contracts, but it did not.
3) and a portion of these contracts have been submitted to international arbitration was the case and make the other part is still and the other is to negotiate with companies to address them and now some of the contracts, or almost all of them in the process of achievement and these contracts will add electricity this summer. "
4) was formerly a contract signed outside Iraq by the Minister and this is a violation of the Constitution.
5) year plan was developed in 11/2006, and is worth mentioning that is not set up ten-year plan in the Ministry of Electricity since 1976.
6) I toured with great companies Siemens and GEC in Oman and the United States and tabled all payments in personal efforts, a task that was supposed to be carried out by a committee of the Council of Ministers of Finance or the Ministry of Planning for the topic I took on my shoulders and I met with international banks to finance these contracts in the future.
Thus, abolished the sovereignty of the roles and finance and planning ministries and the prime minister and the central bank and even the Ministry of Resources and Irrigation water, we do not know who gave these powers, which no one dared to practice not only in the past and the present.
I wonder why did not focus the members of the House of Representatives on these points in the questioning of the minister, who acknowledges that the signing of contracts outside the country of violating the constitution is exercised day and night , then there is news that was aired by independent Voices of Iraq in addition to the Agency and the official press in 6/9/2008 was that "the delegation headed by Minister of Electricity Kareem Waheed left Iraq on Friday 5 / 9 on his way to Amman for a meeting today on the first round of talks with the company GE regarding a contract to set up power plants in Iraq, "We have said then in Episode 2, entitled (return on the issue of electricity in Iraq):
The first question that comes to mind: why the talks in Amman? Is there any intention to build electric projects in Jordan or Iraq ? claim on the plan is Sahsah decimal point and to what we wrote in the first episode of our articles, which was entitled Plan (the explosive in the electricity sector) on 6/7/2008.
First - A Ten-Year Plan of the Ministry 2004 -15-2 established in October 2004 in the forefront in paragraph (3) under the door (the plan to build generating capacity) what is to come: and take action and efforts to ensure the continuity of power supply to all consumers and to reduce the hours of work pieces programmed and confined to a final in 2007, "... etc.. Why deny the minister is now a ten-year plan before receiving the primary responsibility in the ministry?
If the service was a pioneer of public interest what is the difference for him if he was the first or second of a ten-year plan?
In any case, the lesson is not to develop plans to implement, but we have seen that implementation varies in place despite the allegations of the petition to end the crisis and near the transition to export, we have shown in previous articles published on many sites in the network of information and in the Government Gazette glitches in the morning policy pursued by the Ministry of Electricity and discreet ways to solve them, but officials Egataiwn Egataiwn and the degree of irony and the people the brunt of fire failed and progress in the reconstruction of Iraq is fraught with risk factors of failure.
We had dealt with many aspects of this subject and we add here to refute misleading allegations launched by the Minister and officials of his ministry so that public opinion aware of the reality of the situation. We do not find better than the report of the _ Seger referred to above. * The average daily power generation hit a record in this Chapter for the post-war period, amounting to 4919 MW per day (including an average of 319 megawatts of electricity importer).
While the officials from the Ministry of Electricity and confirm that it had increased to 9500 MW). Seger on the report in the August 28, 2008 PROFILE U.S. has committed the United States the amount of $ 4.65 billion and spent about 4.42 billion for the electricity sector in Iraq.
The Iraqi Government has allocated in 2008 $ 1.3 billion for capital projects (investment) to electric. As of June 2008 has been launched $ 708 million of this amount to the ministry, which spent about $ 229 million, in an annex to the 2008 budget passed in August and the Government of Iraq provided an additional $ (1.03) billion dollars to the Ministry of Electricity.
Note that the ministry had spent only 32% of what was paid, however suffer from lack of resources and accuses the prime minister to do so. As for the issue of generating capacity came in the report: The generating capacity of Iraqis last is about 9600 MW, the gap between capacity and actual production stemmed from the misery of maintenance practices and the use of fuels and the absence of the appropriate distribution and the scarcity of water supply.
The generating capacity available is the 9834 generation of daily living (including imports) 4919 The report went on to say: I have asked the Ministry of Oil recently helped Decades GE, Siemens, Seger said a report submitted on 30 October to Congress that the Iraqi Council of Representatives refused to approve The issuance of treasury bonds for the payment of two decades, GE, Siemens, but the central bank agreed to lend to the government of Iraqi banks for the payment of those amounts, and added "According to sources, the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, the Office of the Treasury has exercised control of the situation and encouraged the Iraqi government to finance other payables to GE and ongoing payments as of 30 September 2009."
What excuse minister then complain of lack of funding, and Seger confirms the very important point we have already in our past which is to achieve modernization and development in other sectors of the network of transmission and distribution, etc., in which it says: "As said earlier, Seger large increases in generating capacity must be accompanied by updates in the transmission and distribution systems and only the Iraqi regimes will not be able to meet the increasing loads. and did not know the embassy of the signing of any contracts to facilitate the set up equipment or make necessary updates to the national grid, and furthermore, the availability of adequate supplies and detailed fuel will determine the success of the performance of these Stations, "stressing that the gas turbine plants that run on natural gas and installed in Erbil and Sulaymaniyah have achieved operational efficiency by 76% of manufacturing capacity compared to 31%. The other stations.
These statements reverse all statements made by the Minister of Electricity and officials of his ministry on the achievements of the ministry, not far About Dr. Kamel to network (views) of space and published in the 18.4.2009, which stated: "I was raise production to 40% during the first months and the appreciation of the United Nations and the number that we have reached is 7000 MW and will arrive during the summer if it was put water well more than this figure.
"Despite the lack of information sources other than the Seger confirm that plants in Kurdistan has already achieved this percentage of performance once the use of natural gas but it is certain that the efficiency of gas units using improper fuel may decline to 31%, and it is equally certain that this percentage rises when you convert units of simple cycle to combined cycle, especially when the optimal use of fuel is natural gas.
We have this fact in previous workshops and documented statistics from many countries of the world, especially the United States, Canada and others, one of the leading countries in the manufacture of gas turbines and use. We do not want to go back and statements that have brought the production of Electricity to more than ten thousand MW and this figure compares with the reports of Seger and the U.S. Department of State:
Table (2-23) of the report of 30 October 2009 that the electricity supply for the day was as follows 30/9/2009 : 5209 MW power plants produce 669 megawatts imports 560 megawatts of the plants in Irbil and Sulaymaniyah, which are subject to the private sector and, therefore, by virtue of electricity importer.
According to p. 62 of the report as follows: "The increase in the amount of processing about 1951 MW which was added to the national grid during the past two years, accounting for more than half just to repairs or expansions in power plants owned by the Iraqi government and spent by the United States more than two billion dollars, was about 29% of the increase of new power plants built by private investors in the province of Kurdistan, said 19% of the increase by imports from neighboring countries."
This means that imports from Turkey, Iran and the purchase of the Kurdistan region is 936 MW. Confirms the graph on the production and consumption of electricity published in the report mentioned that the production for the period from 1 / 7 to 30 / 9 of the year 2008 was 117,849 MW. Hours of obstetric card 4910 MW and if it is put in this figure is by importing the import proceeds be less than 4000 m and while the pre-invasion production was 90000 MW-hour card 3750 MB Watts.
And make sure these numbers are also issued on schedule (weekly report on conditions in Iraq) issued by the U.S. State Department. This indicates Almertsm chart, which gives the electricity for the month of September 2009 that the available capacity is about 11200 MW, while the processing of daily accounts for 55% of the available capacity is the result would be 6160 m, and if we raised the import of what is straight economic wisely and that the former increased by 936 to be collected is 5224 MW and the difference between this figure and the figure mentioned by the minister is about 2000 MW.
Whatever our heart in the numbers and where the yen and faces, we find a glaring contradiction between the statements of the minister and officials from his ministry and the reality. The units on the GE and Siemens, which he described as the minister will change the map of power in Iraq and solve the crisis of 2011 and the movement of Iraq to the country of origin in 2012 was said by the Inspector that the relevant civil engineering work to install these units are not expected to begin before the end of 2010 or the beginning of 2011 and it will not be finalized until after a period ranging from two to six years from that date, ie, actual production will not begin before 2013 to 2017.
If we accept all the facts confirmed that the efficiency of production will not exceed 31% of the manufacturing capacity it means that it will not add more than 4000 MW at best, and if we combine this figure with the current production of less than 5000 MW will be the total 9000 MW, while Demand Then will be between 15000-17000 MW according to estimates by the central ministry's plan by Mr. Qusay Abdul Sattar in the Energy Conference held in Amman on 9-10 December 2008, noting that these units are as we have stressed earlier to cover peak loads and emergencies, not for pregnancy basis.
We stayed there two points giving rise before the conclusion of this first article on corruption in tenders and the second new issues by the Ministry. Here is not to say what is the subject of widespread corruption in the Ministry of Electricity and practices which is a lot, thank God, like the rest of the Iraqi ministries and Iraqi state institutions, as we have Sultna highlighted in an earlier one based on the report of the Integrity, but want to point to companies that contracted by the Ministry of Electricity, has talked in detail on the imaginary companies or specially-formed in some U.S. states to get "rich contracts" from the Ministry of Electricity and later proved to be based on the memorial and fraud are the main protagonist, Khatib sexual Rozko Syrian-born Tony (TONY REZKO) now detained in the U.S. Sixteen charged with fraud, deception, and Vulcan Power Company (Vulcan) the U.S., and other agencies and companies suspected fake abroad, Iraq, Oman and other transactions which are held on behalf of the Ministry of Electricity.
Then came the proposed contract with Al-Kharafi, who rejected the Kuwaiti National Assembly on grounds of corruption, and then rejected by the Iraqi Prime Minister. She wrote the Daily Telegraph newspapers and Alvaninchal Times in Heiligendamm, on rumors of corruption took place at the General Electric Company of America.
Finally came a scandal Germany's Siemens and its involvement in corruption cases, has revealed to the World Bank's involvement Siemens corruption cases where the huge pay $ 1.50 billion in bribes to obtain contracts abroad.
The decision was made by the World Bank in July 2009 announcing the settlement was between the bank and the company whereby the latter undertook to pay a hundred million dollars over the past fifteen years to support anti-corruption activities to atone for the corrupt practices of its subsidiary in Russia. She said one of the agencies that "Siemens has recognized that it may have caused reduction of 1.3 billion euros (equivalent to $ 1.8 billion) illegally to win foreign contracts.
This is The Independent newspaper a few weeks ago that the company had acknowledged that they exercised bribes in many countries, including the program of oil for food program in Iraq and get the contracts between the years 2000-2008 in many countries, including Iraq.
What do you think is a selection of these companies came to the innocent or the reasons for accident or That behind heal what is behind it? Ask the people of Remembrance if you do not know.
New tenders and issues of cost and the Ministry of Electricity, published on its website a declaration calling on private investors to build a number of obstetric units of the type of gas turbines and thermal power stations in a number of governorates of Iraq in various capacities totaling 3500 MW and the estimated cost identified by one million dollars per MW , for gas turbines and 667 thousand dollars for the thermal plants.
As stated in a news release from the ministry in the 25/11/2009 that at its meeting held on 23/11 included Messrs. Minister of Electricity d. Dr. Karim Wahid. Sami Araji, head of the National Investment Commission and a number of investors to discuss the building projects of electric power stations in the northern and southern capacity (5000) five thousand megawatts, was introduced by the Minister in the presence of a number of gentlemen, officials in the ministry investment map of the ministry, etc..
The truth is that these actions come - it seems - the implementation of the plan of the central Ministry to which we referred above, that is notable is the significant rise in the estimated costs set by the ministry.
We have already discussed in an episode of our articles on the subject of electricity costs on the basis of reference sources in the world, as well as the uncertainty surrounding the minister's comments in this regard, where he was reluctant to give specific figures on the cost, perhaps due to an abundance of caution on transparency, we would like to point out the facts today the following:
1) speculative that the cost of the equipment required supplementary supply contract for the completion of GE and Siemens as well as civil engineering works, installation and operation is estimated at 325 thousand dollars for megabytes per watt by the ministry estimates. If the cost of the contract with G Any processing turbines 7000 MW capacity is 3 billion dollars, a rate of 429 thousand dollars for megabytes per watt, it should in this case that does not exceed the total cost of 754 thousand dollars for megabytes per watt (and this is also a high cost for international standards). Why put the roof of the ministry entrusted to one million dollars in speculative? Is that considered a matter of providing for the emergency or what? .
2) Below are some indicators of past prices of megabytes per watt based on the draft ready: the Chinese company, Frame 9 304800 dollars Ela 79402 327500 Siemens 79402 420900 U.S. dollars GE Frame 9 428300 dollars, which is worth mentioning that the Jordanian Ministry of Energy and HANWHA Korean company signed a contract (the at the end of 2009) expanded the black power station the third phase consists of two Gazitin 142.9 MW capacity per unit and total capacity of 285.8 MW project, where the total value of JD 138 project any cost (686 U.S. dollars) of megabytes per watt, with taking into account the very strict specifications and requirements of environmental conditions with regard to greenhouse gases and oxides of nitrogen.
Why is this huge price disparity?
What is the interpretation of this waste money the Iraqi people?
Where oversight and transparency?
Is one expected to be transparent while the minister himself admits that he is touring the countries of the world and negotiate various matters with the banks, companies and institutions without impunity, while acknowledging that this is not arrived in his life?
If any doubt, of some Balakulaiat, which are not the Ministry of Electricity transfer agent earlier statements to the Ministry of Electricity Mr. Raad Sentinel published in the newspaper range 24/1/2009.
Finally, the agent of the Ministry of Electricity is the oldest of his "If we want to actually work correctly and vigorously and the exclusion of all the instructions and away from the integrity and reports can provide more than 3000 MW during the summer to the country."
Blessed is the democracy and its people!!