STORY: Iraq exports over 100 mln barrels of crude oil in June
DATELINE: July 2, 2023
LENGTH: 00:01:08
LOCATION: Baghdad
CATEGORY: ECONOMY

SHOTLIST:
1. various of Iraqi oil fields

STORYLINE:

Iraq exported about 100.6 million barrels of crude oil in June, generating 7.1 billion U.S. dollars in revenue, the country's Oil Ministry announced Saturday.

The average price for Iraqi crude oil in June was 71.1 dollars per barrel, the ministry said in a statement, citing statistics from the State Organization for Marketing of Oil, an Iraqi company.

More than 98.7 million barrels were exported from oil fields in central and southern Iraq via the port of Basra, nearly 1 million barrels from the Qayyara oilfield in the northern province of Nineveh, and 299,445 barrels were sent to neighboring Jordan during the month, the statement said.

Oil exports from the northern province of Kirkuk via the Turkish port of Ceyhan on the Mediterranean were suspended after Baghdad won an arbitration case against Türkiye in late March over a long dispute on the independent oil export by Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government.

On April 4, the Iraqi federal and Kurdistan regional governments signed an interim agreement to resume Kurdish oil exports via Türkiye. But Türkiye continued to halt the oil flow, saying it wants to negotiate the arbitration before oil exports resume.

Iraq's economy heavily relies on crude oil exports, which account for more than 90 percent of the country's revenues.

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Baghdad.
(XHTV)