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Iraq's crude oil exports averaged 2.508 million bpd in April, the highest level in decades, the head of the State Oil Marketing Organization (SOMO) has announced. The figure was up 8.3 percent on March's 2.317 million bpd, Falah al-Amri told Bloomberg. Oil sales in April generated $8.8 billion in revenue from a total of 75.25 […]
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Reuters reports that Iraq has exported its first cargo of crude oil from its second new Single Point Mooring (SPM) floating terminal in the Gulf on Tuesday. The tanker named "A Whale" (pictured) left the terminal with a cargo of of two million barrels of crude oil destined for India's state-run Indian Oil Corporation. The […]
Reuters reports that Iraq's oil exports from its southern ports have jumped by 190,000 barrels per day (bpd) in April, indicating that shipments are heading for another post-war record. Exports from the al-Basra oil terminal (ABOT), Khor al-Amaya, and the new single-point mooring (SPM) on the Gulf have averaged a combined 2.11 million bpd in […]
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Iraq's crude oil exports rose to 2.317 million bpd in March, up from 2.014 million bpd in February, thanks largely to he new offshore single-point mooring terminal, the State Oil Marketing Organization (SOMO) said on Sunday. According to Reuters, this was the highest level of exports since 2003, while Bloomberg quotes Oil Ministry spokesman Asim […]
The ongoing dispute between Iraq's central government in Baghdad and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) reached new heights on Monday as Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister for Energy, Hussain al-Shahristani (pictured), accused the northern region of smuggling rather than meeting its export obligations. According to Reuters, Shahristani told reporters: "Most of the crude produced in the […]
Following Sunday's statement from the Kurdistan Regional Government stopping oil exports from the region, Norway's DNO International has issued the following statement: As of 1 April 2012, the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has instructed DNO International ASA to halt delivery of that portion of crude oil produced from the […]
The export of oil from the Kurdistan Region of Iraq has been stopped from today because the federal government in Baghdad has not honoured its payment commitments, Kurdistan's Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) said on Sunday. “After consultation with the producing companies, the Ministry has reluctantly decided to halt exports until further notice. There have […]
According to a report from Bloomberg, Iraq plans to increase its exports of Kirkuk crude from the Turkish port of Ceyhan (pictured) by 20 percent in April: 24 cargoes to be shipped, up from 21 in March; shipping rate of 510,000 barrels a day, up from 425,484 bpd in March. Shipments of Iraqi Kirkuk crude from […]
Iraq's oil ministry says oil exports in February have declined by nearly 4.5 percent compared to the previous month, as a result of bad weather and sabotage of pipelines. "Iraq exported 58.4 million barrels of crude in February, down from 65.3 million barrels a month earlier and the lowest such figure since November 2010, figures […]
The Kipp Report, citing sources at Iraq's state-owned South Oil Company, reports that Iraq's new offshore oil export terminal had resumed operations at 7.30 p.m. (1630 GMT) on Thursday, and was loading at a rate of 576,000 bpd. Iraq’s Oil Minister Abdul Kareem Luaibi had said earlier on Thursday that bad weather rather than technical […]
