Iraq's oil exports to America exceed 3 million barrels within a month

 
10/3/2020

Economy News _ Baghdad

The US Energy Information Administration announced, on Saturday, that Iraq's exports of crude oil to America amounted to 3 million and 17 thousand barrels during the month of September.

She said in a table seen by "Al-Eqtisad News", that "Iraq exported one million and 617 thousand barrels of crude oil to America during the first week of September, at a rate of 231 thousand barrels per day, while one million and 99 thousand barrels were exported in the second week, at a rate of 157 thousand barrels per day. While not exporting any quantity of oil in the third week, "noting that" the fourth week witnessed the export of 301 thousand barrels at a rate of 43 thousand barrels per day.

And she added that "Iraq came in sixth place after Canada, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Ecuador and Colombia, and the second place in the Arab world after Saudi Arabia, whose exports to America during the month of September reached 7 million and 518 thousand barrels." These exports for the month of September are 87 million and 465 thousand barrels. "

She noted that "Iraqi exports for the month of September decreased from the previous month of August, in which exports reached five million and 369 thousand barrels."

America is the world's largest consumer of oil, with the United States occupying the first place with a consumption amounting to 19.4 million barrels per day, which constitutes 19.7% of global consumption.

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