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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