Oil: Iraq has yet to reach the rate of oil production in 1979
Oil: Iraq has yet to reach the rate of oil production in 1979
28/03/2013
BAGHDAD / JD / .. Sources in the Ministry of oil that Iraq could not yet be up to the rate of oil production in 1979, reaching the highest production has 3 million and 564 thousand barrels per day.
A source in the ministry who declined to be named to the reporter and agency / JD / oil sector has been influenced by the course of events that experienced by Iraq, causing fluctuations in the quantities of exported oil is accompanied by delayed investment plans and programs associated gas, which burns waste.
And between that average production per day of crude oil reached in 2004 1.995 million barrels per day, rising in 2008 to 2.285 million barrels per day, or the evolution of the amount of 14.5 percent from 2004, but he also, but he nevertheless was unable to reach average production in in 1979, reaching the highest production has 3 million and 564 thousand barrels per day.
The source added that the export of crude oil for the years 2004 2008 has seen an increase in the volume of oil exported in 2004 1.535 million barrels rose in 2008 to 1.849 million barrels per day, or the evolution of the amount of 20.5 percent, pointing out that the export of oil may exceeded in some months of 2009 to two million barrels per day, although infrastructure than in the export of crude oil from vandalism and tampering.
He said the amount of crude oil refined locally had reached in 2004 150 million barrels, dipping in 2007 to 120 900 000 barrels a decrease 19.4 percent, confirming that the energies actual fell for the design rate of 32 percent for 2007, which led to a deficit in bridging the domestic consumption growing each of gasoline and kerosene, gas oil and liquid gas, attributing this to outages repeated Almasafa oil, which is reflected in people’s lives and livelihoods, falling domestic consumption of petroleum products Home (benzene, oil Hispanic, gas oil, Oil fuels, lubricating oil ready), bringing a 18 million and 981 thousand cubic meters per year in 2005 after was 20 million and 396 thousand cubic meters per year in 2004. / Dania Hadithi /
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