Iran's Bandar Mahshar and Kharg Island crude oil terminals on the Persian Gulf are now open and oil exports have resumed after being closed due to bad weather conditions, a senior Iranian oil official said Monday.
"They have opened," Ali Asghar Arshi, executive director for international affairs at the National Iranian Oil Co., told Dow Jones Newswires Monday.
Arshi told Dow Jones Newswires Sunday that Iran halted exports from its Bandar Mahshahr terminal as of 1330 GMT Saturday through Sunday morning, while the terminal at Kharg Island was closed Sunday and had been closed for about a week.
"Where there is bad weather, we cannot load or discharge the vessel. This is normal all over the world and this is the same for us as well. This is out of our control," Arshi said Sunday.
Iran, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries second-largest producer, presently pumps about 3.6 million barrels a day of crude.
Poor weather also prompted state-run Kuwait National Petroleum Co., or KNPC, to suspend all oil and product exports Sunday morning.