{"id":"2026-oct-add-levant-iraq-oil-exports-oct8","canonicalSlug":"2026-oct-add-levant-iraq-oil-exports-oct8","url":"https://wellficent.com/en/news/2026-oct-add-levant-iraq-oil-exports-oct8","language":"en","title":"Iraq puts oil exports at about 2.7 million barrels a day","summary":"State newspaper Al-Sabah, citing an Oil Ministry spokesperson, reported an early-October export pace of about 2.7 million barrels per day.","body":["Iraq’s Oil Ministry spokesperson Salim al-Rikabi told Al-Sabah that the country’s oil exports were running at about 2.7 million barrels a day in October. In the spokesperson’s estimate, southern outlets accounted for about 2.4 million barrels a day, while northern exports, including production from the Kurdistan Region, ranged from 250,000 to 300,000 barrels a day.","Al-Sabah linked the figures to export receipts that include crude as well as petroleum products such as fuel oil. The spokesperson put monthly receipts from crude and other petroleum-product exports at $4.5 billion to $5 billion.","This is the ministry spokesperson’s reported pace in early October, not a final monthly SOMO export table. The report gives a south-north split but does not provide a finalized October total or a cargo-by-cargo loading list."],"keyPoints":[],"sections":[],"text":"Iraq puts oil exports at about 2.7 million barrels a day\n\nState newspaper Al-Sabah, citing an Oil Ministry spokesperson, reported an early-October export pace of about 2.7 million barrels per day.\n\nIraq’s Oil Ministry spokesperson Salim al-Rikabi told Al-Sabah that the country’s oil exports were running at about 2.7 million barrels a day in October. In the spokesperson’s estimate, southern outlets accounted for about 2.4 million barrels a day, while northern exports, including production from the Kurdistan Region, ranged from 250,000 to 300,000 barrels a day.\n\nAl-Sabah linked the figures to export receipts that include crude as well as petroleum products such as fuel oil. The spokesperson put monthly receipts from crude and other petroleum-product exports at $4.5 billion to $5 billion.\n\nThis is the ministry spokesperson’s reported pace in early October, not a final monthly SOMO export table. The report gives a south-north split but does not provide a finalized October total or a cargo-by-cargo loading list.","category":"energy","region":"world","topics":["oil","statistics"],"eventDate":"2026-10-08","eventDateBasis":"source-announcement-publication","publishedAt":"2026-10-10T13:24:37Z","modifiedAt":"2026-10-10T13:24:37Z","publicationBasis":"first-publication","preparedAt":"2026-10-10T13:24:13Z","sourcePublishedAt":"2026-10-08","translatedAt":"2026-10-10T13:06:48Z","sources":[{"url":"https://alsabaah.iq/139491-.html","name":"Al-Sabah (Iraqi state newspaper), citing Ministry of Oil spokesperson","checkedAt":"2026-10-10","attribution":"Al-Sabah, ‘Oil: exports steady at 2.7 million barrels’, 8 October 2026; figures attributed to Ministry of Oil spokesperson Salim al-Rikabi.","publishedAt":"2026-10-08"}],"translations":{"en":"https://wellficent.com/en/news/2026-oct-add-levant-iraq-oil-exports-oct8","tr":"https://wellficent.com/tr/news/2026-oct-add-levant-iraq-oil-exports-oct8","ar":"https://wellficent.com/ar/news/2026-oct-add-levant-iraq-oil-exports-oct8","fr":"https://wellficent.com/fr/news/2026-oct-add-levant-iraq-oil-exports-oct8","es":"https://wellficent.com/es/news/2026-oct-add-levant-iraq-oil-exports-oct8","ru":"https://wellficent.com/ru/news/2026-oct-add-levant-iraq-oil-exports-oct8","pt":"https://wellficent.com/pt/news/2026-oct-add-levant-iraq-oil-exports-oct8"},"corrections":[],"locations":[],"type":"news","classification":{"version":"1","dataKinds":["statistical-release"],"geographies":[{"role":"economic-scope","countryCode":"IQ","subdivisionCode":null}],"evidenceBasis":["reported-observation"],"measurementPeriod":{"to":"2026-10","from":"2026-10","precision":"month"}}}