Bloomberg agency reported that during September volume of oil exported from Kurdistan increased by 27% and reached 18.6 million barrels, which is equal to 600,000 barrels a day.
The local authorities say that they are forced to increase oil deliveries to the Turkish Ceyhan to compensate the resources they did not get from the Iraqi budget. Baghdad says, however, that this is illegal.
The regional Kurdistan government reported that by the end of 2015 it is going to increase export of its oil to Turkey up to 900,000 barrels a day.
“At present we ship 700,000 barrels of oil a day to Turkey, but according to our forecasts, by the end of 2015 the volume will increase up to 900,000 barrels a day,” said Dilshad Shaaban, deputy chief of the Oil & Gas Committee in the Kurdish parliament.
As far as oil shipped to the central government of Iraq is concerned, Shaaban said that the regional government provides 150,000 barrels of oil from Kirkuk to the Iraqi state oil company COMO in the Ceyhan port, Turkey.
He added that the Kurdish region will continue selling its oil at the international markets independently, because the budget issues have not been solved with the central authorities yet.
He also added that Baghdad uses the budget issue with pressure Erbil.
* According to the State Customs of Azerbaijan, from January to August 2015
Azerbaijan exported 675,000 barrels of oil a day to the foreign markets.
