Oil: Last month's export revenues amounted to more than $7 billion

The Ministry of Oil confirmed today, Monday, that oil export revenues for the month of December amounted to more than 7 billion dollars. 

The ministry’s media office said in a statement , that “according to the final statistics issued by the Iraqi Oil Marketing Company (SOMO), the amount of exports of crude oil amounted to (101) million and (579) thousand and (927) barrels, with revenues amounting to (7) billion (391) million and (749) thousand dollars.    

The statement added, "Additional revenues were achieved from selling quantities of shipments of exported crude oil at a price premium, as the total revenue amounted to (143,025,310.50) dollars," noting that "the exported quantities were loaded by (29) international companies of different nationalities, from ports Basra, Khor al-Amiyah, mono-buoys on the Gulf, and the Turkish port of Ceyhan."