America can't make Iraq's black gold flow - reports are "sexed up"

[donsu]

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=qw1065949746290O425&set_id=1&click_id=2813&sf=2813

Oil is slippery stuff, but not as slippery as the figures now being peddled by Iraq's American occupiers. Up around Kirkuk, the authorities are keeping the sabotage figures secret - because they can't stop their pipelines to Turkey blowing up.

And down in Baghdad, where the men who produce Iraq's oil production figures are beginning to look like the occupants of Plato's cave - drawing conclusions from shadows on their wall - the statistics are being cooked.

Paul Bremer, the United States' proconsul who wears combat boots, is "sexing up" the figures to a point where even the oilmen are shaking their heads. Take Kirkuk. Only when the television cameras capture a blown pipe, flames billowing from its wounds, do the occupation powers report sabotage.

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Thus the only oil revenues the US can get are from the south. In the middle of August, Bremer gave the impression that production stood at about 1,5 million barrels a day. But the real figure at that time was 780 000 barrels and rarely does production reach a million. In the words of an oil analyst visiting Iraq, this is "an inexcusable catastrophe".

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But it can't make the oil flow. The cost of making it flow could produce an economic crisis in the US. And it is this - rather than the daily killing of US soldiers - which lies behind the Bush administration's growing sense of panic. Washington has got its hands on the biggest treasure chest in the world - but it can't open the lid. No wonder they are cooking the books in Baghdad.
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did the bloody hands bushgang think the Iraq people would give up their oil without so much as a squeek? did the gang think "shock and awe" would keep them silent and inactive"

[Wickerman]

1. When Americans attacked Iraq, (it) was producing 2,7 million barrels a day

When the Americans attacked Iraq in March, the country was producing 2,7 million barrels a day.

Bush bankrupted 2 oil companies all by hisself in the 80's - now he is bankrupting Iraq and the US. 2 countries - who woulda guessed it? Seems like he he could also take out the UK, too, as an added bonus.

[DK666]

2. I was

Offered a job in IRAQ to OSR the valving on the pipelines. I declined because of the danger. The kept upping the offer when it got to 500,000 for 6 months and i continued to decline they got the message. From what I can understand and from photos the pipeline system is non-standard so it requires that all of the valving and coupling be hand fabricated to get the oil flowing correctly plus sniper attacks on the line are frequent.


M2C

[donsu]

4. that 500,000 would have come out of our pockets via the corps.

jeez!

[papau]

3. Great Article !

thanks for posting

:-)

They were claim they were producing 1.5 million but had to re-insert most of it back into the ground because of pipeline difficulties.

Now it seems like they are not even producing the 1.5 m per day.

[leftchick]

5. Bremer looks like a freaking criminal

and acts like one too! Check this out, our tax dollars at work:

<snip>Anarchy is now so widespread in postwar Iraq that it is almost impossible for international investors to work there. There is no insurance - which is why Bremer's occupation administrators have secretly decided that more than half the $20-billion (R140-billion) earmarked for Iraq will go towards security for its production infrastructure.


:grr:

[zbdent]

6. Strange, since the oil refineries were spared in the bombings.

Now, trying to restore the priceless antiquities in the museums across from the tank-protected banks, there's a challenge!