Ali Al-Lami, a member of the Parliamentary Oil and Gas Committee, said on Tuesday that the oil and gas law would not be passed during the current legislative session, suggesting that the organization in charge of overseeing Kurdistan’s oil fields is involved in the disagreement over the legislation.
“One of the most important laws, the oil and gas law, will not pass in the current parliamentary session. As it has in previous sessions, this law will be transferred to the next parliamentary session,” Al-Lami stated.
He continued, “There are many disagreements over the oil and gas law, including political disagreements and technical disagreements, and the most prominent of them is over the party that manages the oil fields in the Kurdistan Region and who exports the region’s oil abroad,” highlighting that “this main disagreement has not been resolved and will not be resolved due to the deepening political disagreements regarding this is the law” .
Al-Lami went on: “The oil and gas legislation cannot be divided into two laws, one dealing with gas and the other with oil, since the two laws are incompatible because the disagreement remains unresolved and the gas originates from the same oil fields.
