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Oil announces the construction of eight oil tanks
On: Sun 26/02/2012 7:35
Baghdad / range
Oil Ministry announced on Saturday on the completion of the construction of eight storage tanks of oil to the Persian Gulf out of 16 seeks to implement them, indicating that the goal is to increase the energy Alkhoznip oil, while confirming that its creation will prevent the impact of bad weather on the export operations in the future.
The spokesman said ministry spokesman Assem Jihad, "Alsumaria News", "The ministry has established eight tanks of oil to the Persian Gulf out of 16 reservoirs is seeking to implement them within the first phase," noting that "the storage capacity of these reservoirs quarter of between 300 to 350 thousand barrels per tank. "
Jihad said that "the second phase includes the establishment of eight tanks, the other to reach the number of reservoirs to 24", noting that "the establishment of such reservoirs is part of a major project aims to create ports of floating tubes to increase the export capacity and Alkhoznip Iraqi crude oil."
Jihad continued to create reservoirs will prevent bad weather from affecting the future on the export operations or production of crude oil, "noting that" the ministry often ask oil companies to reduce oil production in the event of bad weather conditions due to lack of oil tanks. "
and often ask the South Oil Company of oil companies operating in the development of Iraqi fields, particularly in the Rumaila field to reduce or stop oil production in the event of any contained in the weather due to lack of oil tanks.
opened the Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, on 12 of February, the current, the first floating platform to export oil out of five card export amounting to 850 thousand barrels per day.
and Deputy Prime Minister for Energy, Hussain al-Shahristani, the fourth of October 2011, that Iraq will raise the rate of export of oil over the next year to more than three million barrels per day after the opening of four ports floating north of the Gulf, stressing a plan to increase its exports through the ports in a new, as most likely to reach production capacity of the country by the year 2017 to 12 million barrels.
and Iraq signed last year 2010 contracts with foreign companies to develop some oil fields in the two rounds of licensing the first and second, to raise the production ceiling to 11 million barrels per day within the next six years, and to 12 million barrels a day, after the addition of the quantities of the other fields of national effort, has focused the majority of those contracts to develop oil fields large to the south of Iraq.
noteworthy that Iraq currently produces about 2.0009 million barrels of crude oil daily, while the exports of Iraqi crude oil, currently about 2.2 million barrels per day, and most of those quantities exported by tankers freely through the ports of Basra (pristine deep) and al-Amaya floating, and are located in Iraqi territorial waters, and with a capacity to export 1.7 million barrels a day, , while the quantities produced are issued from the northern fields to the port of Ceyhan on the Mediterranean Sea through a pipeline carrier, and the remaining quantities are exported to Jordan using the pelvic carriers.
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