Iraq 's crude oil exports in September went up by 1.4% to 2.6 million barrels a day, compared with 2.565 million barrels a day in August, thanks to the resumption of crude oil from the semi-autonomous region in Kurdistan .

Head of the State Oil Marketing Organization, or SOMO, Falah Alamri said that Iraq exported some 2.180 million barrels a day from southern oil fields via export terminals from the Gulf.

Some 410,000 barrels a day were exported from northern oil fields to the Mediterranean port of Ceyhan in Turkey . Another 10,000 barrels a day were shipped by trucks to Jordan , Mr. Alamri told Dow Jones Newswires.

He said that Iraq earned around $8.4 billion from oil sales in September, more or less the same amount Baghdad earned in the previous month.

The increase in Iraq 's September exports is mainly due to resumption of oil shipments from the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan in northern Iraq . The Kurdish region resumed exports of nearly 120,000 barrels a day during the first three weeks of August. Exports from the region went up to 140,000 barrels a day in September.

The Kurdistan Regional Government suspended exports in April this year, protesting at the delay of payment by the central government to contracting companies in the northern region. Last week, Baghdad agreed to pay some 1 trillion Iraqi dinars ($840 million) to oil producing foreign companies in Kurdistan .

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