Iraq southern oil exports around 3.5 millions bpd so far in February

Iraq's crude oil exports from its southern ports on the Gulf stand at 3.5 million barrels per day so far in February, two oil industry officials told Reuters on Thursday. "Despite repeated bad weather issues this month we expect the monthly average to stay at or slightly below 3.5 million barrels per day," one of the officials said.
Iraq's total exports should be higher as the northern Iraqi Kurdistan region also exports about 200,000 bpd through a pipeline to the Turkish Mediterranean port of Ceyhan. Iraq is the second-largest producer of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec), after Saudi Arabia.
The country is producing below its maximum capacity of nearly 5 million bpd under an agreement between Opec and other exporters including Russia to curtail output in order to support oil prices. Iraq plans to export oil to Iran from the northern Kirkuk oilfield using tanker trucks. Iraq and Iran agreed in December to swap up to 60,000 bpd of crude produced from Kirkuk for Iranian oil to be delivered to southern Iraq, with the crude trucked to Iran's Kermanshah.