RE: What Orders Followed?5 Jul 2020 14:54
Why suppress the CPR ?
From memory: old man Barzani tried around 3yrs back to form his Barzanistan State - but (even his probably rigged) voting failed to pull it off as the population of Kurdistan voted against it/him under presumably heavy influence and promises of better times from Baghdad....... hence his exit, stage left, into a billionaire retiral - but fear not, his progeny cling on and continue to milk these little oil developers, and all Kurdistan State nationalised and controlled facilities.
So here we are today - the tribals who surely control us, are still squabling with Baghdad over anything from the wrong biscuits at meetings, to how can the corruptive practices be preserved for the benefit of their good selves - if and when most of Kurdistan’s oil is marketted via the relatively squeeky clean State Agency SUMO in Baghdad.
Why the suppressed CPR then ?
Here’s my theory, for what its worth:
On the run-up to the voting, and under my undying belief, that Shaikan is of such magnitude that it could ‘underwrite the formation of a fledgling State» as was quoted at the time - The new kid on our block (JF) was brow beaten in to slashing the previously established CPR based volumes - to presumably weaken the desires of Baghdad to keep a tight hold over the problem child that is Kurdistan.
Hence we are stuck with a severely diminished (on paper) asset - for purely political/historical reasons.
A dirty business all round.
Bet JF (and earlier) Sami, are glad to follow the path set out by old man Barzani, into very financially abundant retirals.