Kuwait to supply Iraq with additional fuel to meet shortage

[Barrett808]

KUWAIT CITY (AFP) - Kuwait agreed to supply its former occupier Iraq (news - web sites) with additional quantities of petrol to help the war-torn nation meet an acute fuel shortage, a top Kuwaiti energy ministry official said.

"The Iraqi side asked for one million liters (220,000 gallons) of petrol daily. We told them we have the capacity for the additional supplies," undersecretary Issa al-Oun told reporters after meeting with an Iraqi oil delegation.

The two nations have formed a technical team to study the most appropriate means to make the shipments, whether by land, sea or through the pipeline that was set up during the US-led war on Iraq to supply coalition forces, he said.

Kuwait currently supplies Iraq and US troops there with some two million liters (439.94 gallons) of petrol daily. A request had been made earlier to increase this quantity to 3.5 million liters, Oun said.

"The Iraqi officials today asked for one million liters on top of those quantities. They also asked for smaller quantities of kerosene," said Oun, adding that Kuwait has the capacity to produce the requested quantities.

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20031211/wl_mideast_afp/kuwait_iraq_oil&cid=1514&ncid=1480

[el_gato]

1. by the standards set before us

the project of resource extraction is an absolute failure
and should cost the neocon bush gang support among the
vulturous slime that make up the elite

[htuttle]

2. It's the least they can do...

...considering that they slant-drilled it out of Iraq's own oil fields.

[Kolesar]

4. that's what I was thinking...steal it and sell it back

[Barrett808]

5. Are there any good links on the slant-drilling angle?

I remember reading a lot about that in 1991...wasn't George Sr. on the board of the company that sold the slant-drilling tech to Kuwait? And wasn't that one of Iraq's biggest complaints pre-invasion?

[htuttle]

6. Hmm.....I think there was some UN action on it before Iraq invaded Kuwait

I think that Iraq put an official grievance in front of the UN that spring or early summer before April Glaspie said, 'The US washes it's hands of this' (paraphrasing...). The UN website would probably have it. (un.org, of course).



July 25, 1990 - Presidential Palace - Baghdad

U.S. Ambassador Glaspie - We have no opinion on your Arab - Arab conflicts, such as your dispute with Kuwait. Secretary (of State James) Baker has directed me to emphasize the instruction, first given to Iraq in the 1960's, that the Kuwait issue is not associated with America.

[pinto]

9. I remember Iraqs complaints then that Kuwaiti oil firms were drilling

major oil field under Iraqi territory and underselling Iraq. That, I believe was their reasoning to invade Kuwait.

For you conspiricists out there, Kuwaiti oil industry is connected to Arab Banking Corp, whose CEO is Mike Murad, formerly of Sun Bank......
Florida.

That's the bank where Mohammed Atta picked up his $10,000.

[pinto]

10. here's one link re: Kuwaiti slant drilling Iraqi oil

site has a link to a Yahoo article from the same time.

http://www.rense.com/general3/slant.htm

[saigon68]

3. WHO'S PAYING FOR THIS???

How much is Halliburton getting?

[MsLeopard]

7. It'a a sweet deal

I read yesterday where Halliburton gets $.26 per gallon for their overhead costs. At the figures provided in this article, they're reaping $800,800 per week, or $3.2 million per month for sending gasoline across the border from Kuwait.... And of course the "librul" press seems unable to do the math and report it as the war profiteering it most definitely is. Shameless!

[Cooley Hurd]

8. You and me, that's who...

And I just paid my personal fuel oil bill today. Oil, oil, oil... I think I'll skip the oil & vinegar dressing on my salad tonight - maybe French or Russian dressing? :evilgrin:

[DoYouEverWonder]

11. So Rummie and Wolfie lied again?

http://www.house.gov/schakowsky/iraqquotes_web.htm


Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz

"There’s a lot of money to pay for this that doesn't have to be U.S. taxpayer money, and it starts with the assets of the Iraqi people…and on a rough recollection, the oil revenues of that country could bring between $50 and $100 billion over the course of the next two or three years…We're dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon.”


Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld

"If you the cost, the money, Iraq is a very different situation from Afghanistan…Iraq has oil. They have financial resources."



Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld

"Well, the Office of Management and Budget, has come up come up with a number that's something under $50 billion for the cost. How much of that would be the U.S. burden, and how much would be other countries, is an open question."

"I don't know that there is much reconstruction to do."


Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz

"I think it's necessary to preserve some ambiguity of exactly where the numbers are."



Lie, lie, lie. Everything these men say and do are lies. Now 9 months later, Iraq is a major mess. This is what millions of people around the planet tried to tell these arrogant pond scum last January. But Rummie and Wolfie & Co. had all the answers. Iraq was going to be easy, a cakewalk. Iraq was rich in oil that would pay for the rebuilding. Whenever they were asked for real numbers they gave their usual non-answers and no one, not even once called them on it in a public forum. The talking heads were too busy sucking the corporate tit to bother to come up for air and ask a real question or demand a real answer.

[Cooley Hurd]

12. WTF! Halliburton was IMPORTING Iraqi oil not too long ago...

Check out this thread:

Pentagon audit finds Halliburton overcharged

<snip>
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 — A Pentagon audit of Halliburton, the oil services firm once run by Vice President Dick Cheney, has found the company overcharged for fuel it brought into Kuwait from Iraq, military sources said on Thursday.
</snip>

Could they be profitting from the same oil TWICE??

[DoYouEverWonder]

13. Doesn't Iraq

have their own refineries? I sure they're in bad shape but with the billions we've spent already, you would think they would be at least operational? Just like everything else in Iraq, we are spending billions and have nothing to show for it. Reminds me of a boat I used to own.