Iraq Says Exported 2.52 Million Barrels a Day of Oil in July

Iraq’s crude exports in July rose for the third consecutive month to an average of 2.52 million barrels a day, generating sales of $7.5 billion, the head of the country’s State Oil Marketing Organization said.

Iraq shipped most of the crude from the southern terminal of Basra, at an average rate of 2.22 million barrels a day, Falah al-Amri said in a telephone interview from Baghdad. The OPEC-member state exported 294,000 barrels a day on average from northern oil fields through the Turkish port of Ceyhan and also trucked 6,000 barrels a day to Jordan, he said today.