In April 2015 Iraq increased oil export by 22.6% against April 2014 – up to 3,077,000 barrels a day, reported the Iraqi State Oil Marketing Organization (SOMO).
It was earlier reported that in April 2014 Iraq suspended oil export from the fields located in Kirkuk region, because of the attack of Islamic State of Iraq and Levant on the north of the country. Oil export from the fields located in Kirkuk field was resumed only after six months.
Oil export in Iraq increased by 3.2% in April against March 2915.
In April 2015 oil price was on average $51.9 per barrel. The budget received $4.79 billion from oil shipment in April 2015.
In April oil was exported via the terminals in Basra and Khor Alamiye in Persian Gulf and Ceyhan terminal in Turkey and further via the Mediterranean Sea and by automobile transport to Jordan.
