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Iraq earned more than $48 billion in revenue from crude oil exports in the first seven months of this year, Oil Minister Abdul Kareem al-Luaibi [Elaibi] has announced, according to Bloomberg. The country’s 2011 oil exports will exceed $80 billion and have already “helped the government ease the budget deficit and carry out several projects,” […]
A Jordanian transport company said on Sunday that it won the 'technical side' of a bid to transport 10,000 tons of fuel oil from Iraq to Jordan every day, within an agreement signed between the neighbouring countrries in 2006, according to the KUNA news agency. Abdussalam Al-Theyabat, owner of the Theyabat Transport and Trading corporation, […]
Reuters reports that Iraq's oil exports from its southern ports jumped last month to a six-month high, reflecting efforts by foreign oil companies to boost production. Exports from the Basra oil terminal and Khor al-Amaya averaged 1.77 million bpd in July, shipping data tracked by Reuters showed. That is the highest since 1.8 million bpd […]
Iraq’s oil ministry says oil exports increased in June by slightly over 2 percent compared to the previous month, according to the Washington Post. Tuesday’s statement says last month oil exports averaged 2.273 million barrels per day (bpd) - up from the 2.225 bpd in May. The sales yielded $7.173 billion with an achieved average […]
Bloomberg reports that Iraq exported 2.273 million barrels of oil a day in June, the most since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of the country, according to Falah al-Amri, chairman of the State Oil Marketing Organization (SOMO). June oil revenue, at an average price of $105 a barrel, dropped to $7.1 billion from $7.4 billion a […]
Further to the announcement of 23 May 2011, Gulf Keystone has announced that currently the Company is in the commissioning phase of oil export operations from its Extended Well Test (EWT) facility close to Shaikan-1 and Shaikan-3. The commissioning phase, involving final preparations and customary checks and tests on all elements of the process, including […]
Iraq’s oil production has risen to 2.63 million barrels a day, up by 15 percent from the same period last year, according to Bloomberg. Crude exports averaged 2.18 million barrels a day in the first five months of 2011 and are expected to increase in the second half of the year, Hussain al-Shahristani, deputy prime […]
Jordan's Prime Minister, Marouf Bakhit, said that Iraq has agreed to increase the volume of daily oil supply to Jordan from 10,000 barrels to 15,000 barrels, with plans to increase the quantity to 30,000 barrels a day eventually. The two countries have agreed in principle to a planned crude oil pipeline stretching between the neighboring […]
Iraq exported oil at a rate of 2.23 million barrels per day (bpd) in May, with record revenue this year of $7.4 billion, according to Falah al-Amri, chairman of the State Oil Marketing Organization (SOMO) Iraq sold crude at an average price of $108 a barrel last month, he said today in a telephone interview […]
Iraq's oil ministry has reported record oil income for the the month of March. Because of rising oil prices combined with a third consecutive month of exports in excess of two million barrels per day (bpd), Iraq exported a total of 66.9 million barrels of oil last month, generating $7.167 billion in income at an […]
Iraq's crude oil exports fell 2% in March to 2.159 million barrels a day, from 2.202 million barrels a day in the previous month, due to several days of bad weather at the Southern terminals, and damage to part of the northern export pipeline from an act of sabotage, Dow Jones Newswires reports. A senior […]
Iraq’s Oil Ministry has completed repairs to the damaged oil pipeline carrying crude from north Iraq’s Kirkuk fields through Turkey, and pumping resumed after mid-night on Tuesday morning, the Oil Ministry’s official spokesman has confirmed. “The Oil Ministry has completed repairs in the damaged Iraqi-Turkish oil pipeline, exporting crude oil to the Turkish Ceyhan terminal […]
