Iraq's crude oil exports rose to 1.893 million barrels a day in January, up 4.2% from 1.815 million barrels a day in December, a senior Iraqi oil official said Monday.
Falah Alamri, head of Iraq's State Oil Marketing Organization, or SOMO, said Iraq sold its crude oil in January at an average price of $36 a barrel, $1.43 a barrel higher than the average in December. That means Iraq's total oil sales in January reached $2.112 billion, up 8.6% on the month.
In January, Iraq exported 1.383 million barrels a day from its southern oil fields through the Basra oil terminal, he said.
An average 500,000 barrels a day were exported form Iraqi northern oil fields via the Turkish port of Ceyhan, the highest level since the U.S.-led war in 2003, while the remaining 10,000 barrels a day of Kirkuk crude oil were shipped to Jordan via trucks, he added.