Monday, 03 September 2007,
Taq Taq oil fields. The field is located in Kurdistan autonomous region near the town of Koya, and is about 50 miles east of Erbil and 74 miles northwest of Sulaimaniyah city.
MCT
The sticky-sweet smell of raw crude oil lubricates the dusty air as oilmen in orange overalls prepare to test one of the few new oil wells to be drilled in Iraq since the 2003 invasion.
Then, with a gentle whoosh, a huge tongue of orange flame and dense black smoke shoots across the bare, undulating hills of this sparsely populated corner of northern Iraq.
It's a sight for sore eyes in a country where such fires are usually the result of sabotage, where the gasoline queues still stretch for blocks on end and where fierce political squabbles are delaying enactment of a law to regulate Iraq's oil industry, one of the key benchmarks set by the Bush administration to measure Iraq's progress.
But this is Kurdistan, a world apart from the rest of Iraq, and Kurdistan isn't waiting for a political solution in Baghdad to get on with the job of tapping its own potentially vast oil reserves. While Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish politicians bicker over the new oil law, the Kurdish regional government has been busily promoting investment in its own oil fields, signing deals with foreign oil companies and moving ahead with its own, investor-friendly oil law in the regional legislature.
Taq Taq oil fields. The field is located in Kurdistan autonomous region near the town of Koya, and is about 50 miles east of Erbil and 74 miles northwest of Sulaimaniyah city. full text
It's a sight for sore eyes in a country where such fires are usually the result of sabotage, where the gasoline queues still stretch for blocks on end and where fierce political squabbles are delaying enactment of a law to regulate Iraq's oil industry, one of the key benchmarks set by the Bush administration to measure Iraq's progress.
But this is Kurdistan, a world apart from the rest of Iraq, and Kurdistan isn't waiting for a political solution in Baghdad to get on with the job of tapping its own potentially vast oil reserves. While Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish politicians bicker over the new oil law, the Kurdish regional government has been busily promoting investment in its own oil fields, signing deals with foreign oil companies and moving ahead with its own, investor-friendly oil law in the regional legislature.
Taq Taq oil fields. The field is located in Kurdistan autonomous region near the town of Koya, and is about 50 miles east of Erbil and 74 miles northwest of Sulaimaniyah city. full text
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