Iraq sold more than 5 million barrels of oil to America last month
Iraq sold more than 5 million barrels of oil to America last month
Sunday 6 June 2021 | 12:06 pm
On Sunday, the US Energy Information Administration announced that Iraq’s oil exports to America exceeded 5 million barrels during the month of May .
The administration said in its schedule, that “Iraq exported 5 million and 857 thousand barrels of crude oil to America during the last month, at a rate of 195 thousand barrels per day”, up from the month of April, which oil exports to America amounted to 4 million and 260 thousand barrels, at a rate of 142 thousand barrels per day .
He added that “Iraq exported during the first week of May at a rate of 235,000 barrels per day, while an average of 199,000 barrels per day was exported in the second week, while an average of 184 thousand barrels per day was exported in the third week,” noting that “the fourth week these exports amounted to an average of 163 thousand barrels per day .
The US Energy Information Administration reported; Iraq ranked seventh after Canada, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Colombia, Ecuador and Russia, and ranked second in the Arab world after Saudi Arabia, whose exports to America during the month of May amounted to 8 million and 3340 thousand barrels per day, indicating that “Canada ranked first as the most oil-exporting country to America, followed by Mexico”.
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