Iraqi crude oil exports in April fell 4.3% to 1.76 million barrels a day, compared with 1.84 million barrels a day in March, due to rough weather at the southern oil terminal and sabotage at the northern oil export pipeline, a spokesman for the Iraqi oil ministry told Dow Jones Newswires Tuesday.
Iraqi crude oil exports in April fell 4.3% to 1.76 million barrels a
day, compared with 1.84 million barrels a day in March, due to rough weather at
the southern oil terminal and sabotage at the northern oil export pipeline, a
spokesman for the Iraqi oil ministry told Dow Jones Newswires Tuesday.
Assem Jihad said
Iraq
exported an average of 1.42 million barrels a day in April, while some 343,000
barrels a day were exported from the northern
Kirkuk
oil
fields via the Turkish
port
of
Ceyhan
.
Sales from Iraqi crude oil exports in April were down 3% at $4.222 billion,
compared with $4.351 billion in the previous month, Jihad said.
He said
Iraq
exported its crude in April at an average price of $79.66 a barrel, compared
with $76.20 a barrel in March.
Iraq
's
total oil revenue during the first four months of 2010 reached $17.218 billion.
Last year,
Iraq
's oil
revenue reached $41.329 billion, compared with $60 billion in 2008.
Iraq
, a
founding member of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, had its
oil exports from northern
Kirkuk
oil
field on hold for four days in April after militants blew up part of the
1,000-kilometer pipeline carrying crude to the Turkish Ceyhan export terminal.
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