mahad yare Posted July 2, 2012 PL will surpass the republic of Kurdistan in 2 years time once PL starts exporting oil by December of 2012. :cool: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Marksman Posted July 2, 2012 It used to be one of the poorest regions of Iraq and now it is booming. Holy moly. I didn't know that 5 years ago people didn't know there was oil there. And today they pump up more than 250.000 barrels of oil per day. That is crazy. “KRG oil production capacity now stands at 250,000 barrels a day and is going up to 300,000 barrels a day by the end of this year,” Michael Howard, communications adviser to Energy Minister Ashti Hawrami, told the two-day MEED Kurdistan Projects Conference. “We are on track for 1 million barrels a day by 2015 with existing discoveries.” http://www.rudaw.net/english/kurds/4835.html The minister is expecting production from the Kurdish region to reach 1 million barrels a day by the end of 2015 and 2 million barrels a day in 2019. Proven oil reserves in Kurdistan have gone up from 1 billion barrels five years ago to around 44 billion barrels now, he added. http://www.ekurd.net/mismas/articles/misc2012/6/invest846.htm Just within such a short time. It's mind-boggling. I wonder if the oil found in Puntland is good for commercial use and how many billion barrels the capacity is. If done correctly, Somalia can be debt free within 10 years, feed its people and be self sufficient. Our good relations with Turkey should continue. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AfricaOwn Posted July 2, 2012 mahad yare;847458 wrote: PL will surpass the republic of Kurdistan in 2 years time once PL starts exporting oil by December of 2012. :cool: So give us an update on the drill? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GaraadMon Posted July 3, 2012 mahad yare;847458 wrote: PL will surpass the republic of Kurdistan in 2 years time once PL starts exporting oil by December of 2012. :cool: Iraqi Kurdistan sits on top of 45+ billion bbl. Let's be realistic here. Also, super malls and cookie cutter suburban development are a backwards way of planning cities. Why are these people emulating 1950's America? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Somalia Posted July 3, 2012 They had nothing to 1 billion BBL 5 years ago, and this is what they have build. They haven't spend 45 billion BBL worth of oil which is proven now after 40 companies came. If they build, it will be attractive for people to come and invest. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mario B Posted July 4, 2012 Angola's Chinese-built ghost town The ghost towns of China, Ireland and Spain - full of large empty house estates - may be a phenomenon that is on its way to Africa. Built for people who never move in, they leave those who did with a worthless property they cannot sell. Perched in an isolated spot some 30km (18 miles) outside Angola's capital, Luanda, Nova Cidade de Kilamba is a brand-new mixed residential development of 750 eight-storey apartment buildings, a dozen schools and more than 100 retail units. Designed to house up to half a million people when complete, Kilamba has been built by the state-owned China International Trust and Investment Corporation (CITIC) in under three years at a reported cost of $3.5bn (£2.2bn). Spanning 5,000 hectares (12,355 acres), the development is the largest of several new "satellite cities" being constructed by Chinese firms around Angola, and it is believed to be one of the largest new-build projects on the continent. Continue reading the main story “ Start Quote It's very quiet, much calmer than the other city, there's no criminality” Sebastiao Antonio Kilamba student The jewel in Angola's post-war reconstruction crown, Kilamba is the star of glossy government promotional videos which show smiling families enjoying a new style of living away from the dust and confusion of central Luanda where millions live in sprawling slums. But the people in these films are only actors, and despite all the hype, nearly a year since the first batch of 2,800 apartments went on sale, only 220 have been sold. Eerily quiet When you visit Kilamba, you cannot help but wonder if even a third of those buyers have moved in yet. The place is eerily quiet, voices bouncing off all the fresh concrete and wide-open tarred roads. There are hardly any cars and even fewer people, just dozens of repetitive rows of multi-coloured apartment buildings, their shutters sealed and their balconies empty. Only a handful of the commercial units are occupied, mostly by utility companies, but there are no actual shops on site, and so - with the exception of a new hypermarket located at one entrance - there is nowhere to buy food. After driving around for nearly 15 minutes and seeing no-one apart from Chinese labourers, many of whom appear to live in containers next to the site, I came across a tiny pocket of life at a school. The people looking after the lawns cannot afford to stay here It opened six months ago, bussing in its pupils in from outlying areas because there are no children living on site to attend. One student, a 17-year-old called Sebastiao Antonio - who spends nearly three hours a day in traffic getting to and from classes from his home 15km away - told me how much he liked the city. "I really like this place - it's got car parking, places for us to have games like football, basketball and handball," he said. "It's very quiet, much calmer than the other city, there's no criminality." But when I asked if he and his family would move there, he just laughed. "No way, we can't afford this. It's impossible. And there is no work for my parents here," he said. His sentiments were echoed by Jack Franciso, 32, who started work at Kilamba as a street sweeper four months ago. "Yes, it's a nice place for sure," he said. But then he sighed: "To live here, you need a lot of money. People like us don't have money like that to be able to live here." No mortgages And therein lies the problem. Apartments at Kilamba are being advertised online costing between $120,000 and $200,000 - well out of reach of the estimated two-thirds of Angolans who live on less than $2 a day. However, Paulo Cascao, general Manager at Delta Imobiliaria, the real estate agency handling the sales, told the BBC that the problem was not the price, but difficulty in accessing bank credit. "The prices are correct for the quality of the apartments and for all the conditions that the city can offer," he said. Continue reading the main story “ Start Quote There is no middle class in Angola, just the very poor and the very rich, and so there is no-one to buy these sorts of houses” Elias Isaac OSISA "The sales are going slowly due to the difficulty in obtaining mortgages." A new legal frame work has recently been introduced to allow local banks to give mortgages, but for the majority of Angolans, even the few with well-paid office jobs, just finding enough cash for a deposit would be a struggle. "The government needs to start giving priority to building low-cost housing because great majority of the population live in shacks with no water, electricity or sanitation," Elias Isaac, country director at the Angolan Office of the Open Society Initiative of Southern Africa (OSISA), told the BBC. "There is no middle class in Angola, just the very poor and the very rich, and so there is no-one to buy these sorts of houses." According to Mr Cascao, the government has recently announced a portion of the apartments at Kilamba will be designated social housing, which people on low incomes can rent long-term at low prices. No-one is quite sure how that scheme will work or who will be eligible, and cynics have dismissed it as a vote-winning stunt ahead of parliamentary elections scheduled to take place on 31 August. There is also the issue of what will happen to all the full-cost apartments if they do not sell. Kilamba was financed by a Chinese credit line - which Angola is repaying with oil - so it has technically been paid for. But if the houses go unsold, then the Angolan government will be left with stock on their hands and a potentially wasted investment. Election pledge Manuel Clemente Junior, Angola's deputy construction minister, staunchly defended the scheme and said it would definitely be a success - although he seemed convinced it was possible to purchase a flat for $80,000, much cheaper than is advertised. "It is with absolute certainty, an excellent project," he told the BBC. Responding to the complaints about Kilamba's isolated location, he said: "There are always people who criticise but thanks to the new highways which are being built, as a location it is only going to be about 15 to 20 minutes from the city centre." The city of Kilamba is a government flagship project that goes some way to helping President Jose Eduardo dos Santos fulfil his famous 2008 election pledge to build one million homes in four years. Allan Cain, head of Angolan non-government organisation Development Workshop that specialises in urban poverty alleviation, has welcomed the investment, but has some reservations. "What we have been advocating for is a programme of upgrading in situ where people are living now, something which is considered to be international best practice," he said. "I don't think many places in the world can afford actually to displace and re-house whole populations of cities. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-18646243 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
faarah22 Posted July 5, 2012 Just another ME consumption model built on hydrocarbon riches. it's the ultimate fantasy dream of the lazy and incompetent, you just sit back and let others do all the all work and while you bank billions without sweat. nothing to be envious about. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mario B Posted July 5, 2012 ^ I bet you wont be saying this if these buildings were being erected in your tuulo. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar Posted July 5, 2012 Why are some certain qurbaha ku koray kids obsessed with shiny empty buildings. If it isn't some dusty shiny new building in their tuulo enclaves, it is this. Horumar waxaa u aqaanaa dadka degan deegaankaas waxbarasho sare oo bilaash helaan, jaamacado saro laga dhiso, isbitaalo horumarsan oo qalabka u dambeeye yaalo. Et cetera, et cetara. Shiny, privately owned buildings habayaraatee horumar uma arki. Xataa great publically shared spaces, gardens maba arki. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GaraadMon Posted July 5, 2012 faarah22;848297 wrote: Just another ME consumption model built on hydrocarbon riches. it's the ultimate fantasy dream of the lazy and incompetent, you just sit back and let others do all the all work and while you bank billions without sweat. nothing to be envious about. Hear Hear! When the oil runs dry in the gulf states, the engineers,the doctors, and the tradesmen will have no reason to stay in a country they can't call their own. What will happen then? As much as everyone loves to rag on Israel, at least they think long term, they're a pioneer in the field of Solar energy, in fact nearly all of their apartment buildings are equipped with roof top solar heating panels for boiling water, thus keeping 7% of their electrical demand off of the grid. The only middle eastern countries that had any industrial capacity and had long term energy and water management plans were Iraq and Iran, why do you think the west finds (found in Iraq's case) them so threatening? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
burahadeer Posted July 5, 2012 nice to live decent life and leave some behind for kids.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Somalia Posted July 5, 2012 Yes, you are all right, Somalia will get back on it's own feet without any natural resources, get a grip. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
