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Iraq is exporting oil from the second shipment of new floating platform in the Gulf
2012-03-27 02:45:17
BAGHDAD (Iba) ... Iraq was second shipment of crude oil from a new platform floating on the Gulf, which helps to raise the Baghdad Sadartha to a record of the post-war.
And navigational data revealed that the tanker left the New Creation floating platform on Sunday, carrying about two million barrels, and the second shipment is exported from the platform since the entry into service this month.
The average of exports from all ports in the country, the southern port of Basra and Khor al-Amaya oil platform and floating 1.79 million bpd in the first 25 day of March, it said, up from about 1.66 million barrels per day in February.
It is expected that Iraq is the largest energy growth in the export of oil in the world in 2012 with the opening of new outlets, an increase may alleviate the pressures that raise prices. Oil is trading above $ 125 a barrel, mainly due to concerns about exports from Iran with tougher sanctions.
Iraq's exports have been affected negatively for years because of poor power ports after decades of wars and sanctions, although foreign companies such as BP. BP and ENI was working to increase production from the fields of Iraq.
Iraq exports most of the ore from the ports of the south. The total exports from Kirkuk in the north of the country, usually about 400 thousand barrels per day are expected to remain stable around this level.
Unless there is any emergency in the few days remaining this month seems to Iraq on his way to export about 2.2 million barrels per day on average in March, a level said Oil Minister Abdul Karim and coffee last week that he hoped to overtake despite the bad weather which disrupted loading in the south.
An Iraqi official said last earlier this month that Baghdad aimed to raise its oil sales to 2.3 million barrels per day in April, which will be a record for the period after the war. (End)
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