Israeli firm awarded oil tender in Iraq

[Aidoneus]

Israeli firm awarded oil tender in Iraq
Wednesday 25 February 2004

One of Israel's largest oil marketing firms has won a multi-million dollar tender to supply fuel to US troops in Iraq.

According to a IsraelNationalNews.com report, the tender awarded to Sonol gasoline company, along with its foreign partner Morgantown International, is valued at $70-80 million.

The company is expected to supply the US forces with 25 million litres of fuel each month.

The tender was issued by the US- based KDR Company, a subsidiary of Halliburton, which has been entrusted with the majority of US military contracts in Iraq. Among Sonol’s competitors was Delek, another Israeli company, the report added.

Until now, the US forces have received most of their fuel from Kuwait. However, following Halliburton’s admission that it overcharged the US military by passing on the Kuwaitis' inflated price, the US Army decided to approach other suppliers.

Sonol is one of Israel's three largest oil product marketing firms with a network of about 205 branded service stations.

Fuel, imported to Israel, will pass through the fuel terminal operated by the TASHAN (Oil and Energy Infrastructure Company) north of Beer Sheva and will then be transported to Iraq by land through Jordan, according to the report.

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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/14002292-509C-4896-951D-DAE550DFB88F.htm

[Resistance]

1. JACKPOT!

Where's the party going to be? Can I come?

:party:

[Aidoneus]

2. what's more interesting is the transport route

and some pro-Israel/American people aren't happy with the job their man in Jordan is doing..

[bemildred]

5. Yes, the details on the the Mosul pipe too.

Thanks for pointing it out.

Again, the notion of Israel shipping fuel to Iraq
is too funny for words. We really seem to have things
backwards from the intended effect here.

[Resistance]

6. I see what you mean

"backwards from the intended effect" ...

but then, the question for me is, as usual, who's profiting, and who's not? From that perspective, are things really so backward?

[bemildred]

7. It's an ill wind that blows nobody good.

The sum involved is peanuts.
I expect that the intention was that petroleum products
flow the other way, and whether the intent is either
to fix fuel shortages in Iraq or to fix money shortages
in Israel it still not a win, still not things going as
planned.

[Herschel]

3. Contrast

Israel aids America in Iraq. We have learned Palestinians train others to kill Americans in Iraq. Yet some will wonder why we support her!

[Resistance]

4. I don't wonder why

We need an off-shore military base as Peak Oil grows nearer.

My only question is - what do you think is the best way to divy up the loot? Republicans are too stingy with the cash, IMO.