Oil revenues last September reached (9) billion and (422) million dollars: Oil Ministry

INA-  Baghdad


The Ministry of Oil announced today, Wednesday that the revenues of last September reached to (9) billion and (422) million dollars.

The ministry said in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA) that "The final statistics issued by the State Organization for Marketing of Oil (SOMO), for the month of September, showed that the amount of exports of crude oil is (103) million and (143) thousand and (199) barrels, with revenues amounting to (9) billion and (422) million and (410) thousand dollars."

The ministry added that "the total quantities exported from oil fields in central and southern Iraq amounted to (102) million and (220) thousand and (441) barrels, while the quantities exported from Qayyarah (473) thousand and (335) barrels, while exports to Jordan were (449) thousand and (423) barrels," pointing out that "the average price per barrel amounted to (91.353) dollars."

It also pointed out that "the exported quantities have been loaded by (37) international companies of several nationalities, from the ports of Basra, Khor Al-Zubair, single buoys and the modern Kirkuk warehouse by basin trucks and from the Qayyarah field."