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The first tanker leaving the port to export the new oil in Iraq
Posted 14/03/2012 06:40 AM
Basra (Iraq) (Reuters) - The sources said that the first oil tanker left the new floating platform off the coast of southern Iraq on Tuesday a new path Muftthh Baghdad expects to increase its exports to record levels.
And began loading the tanker Maersk Hirado of the new harbor on Thursday.
Two sources of the South Oil Company said that the tanker departed on Tuesday carrying two million barrels of oil for delivery in North America, suggesting that the new port raise Iraq's exports by more than 300 thousand barrels per day.
From the port is to export Iraqi oil
And the port is the first that has been run from the four ports of export capacity is expected for each 850 thousand barrels per day and will increase the export capacity of the country to more than double.
The Leighton Holdings to build the Australian ports. And delayed operation of the port the first weeks due to bad weather in the Gulf.
For decades, oil production has been affected poor infrastructure due to war, sanctions, and lacked sufficient power export to the coast on the Gulf.
He said Iraq's oil minister said this month that production exceeded three million barrels per day for the first time since 1979. The Iraqi oil official said on Monday that is expected to exceed the average exports 2.3 million barrels a day next month, achieving a record level for the period after the war and up from 2.01 million barrels a day last month.
Iraq announced plans in recent years to increase production rapidly concluded huge deals with international companies and a target production of up to 12 million barrels per day in the long run.
While most analysts say the industry that this goal too ambitious, the increase in production to lesbian to reach six million barrels per day seems more realistic and will make Iraq's second-largest oil producer in OPEC after Saudi Arabia and one of the largest sources of new oil in the world in the coming years.
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