Iraq Begins Heavy Oil Exports After Complaints About Quality
A tanker leaves the Basra Oil Terminal in the Gulf 50kms south of Iraq Sunday December 7, 2003.
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Iraq, OPEC’s second-biggest oil producer, is set to increase exports after starting a new grade of crude to quell customer complaints about the quality of its oil.
The Basrah Heavy crude will be exported for the first time starting Monday, shipped from the south on the Persian Gulf, Oil Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi said on his Facebook page. Orders for this month total 850,000 barrels a day, he said.