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year, Mohsen said, “The average price this information on this subject is published in the Iraq’s House of Representatives revealed
year has reached $97 a barrel, which is a reports issued by the Transparency Initiative the possibility of exporting gas from the
good price. According to experts’ estimates, for Strategic Industries in Iraq, which can be Karbala refinery, while indicating that the
next year’s prices will be between $85-95 and viewed by everyone.” Karbala refinery will provide about 60% of the
maybe less than $5-7 as a minimum.” And she continued, “The port of Khor imported quantities.
INA Al-Zubair is a port dedicated to goods and the The deputy head of the committee, Ali
export and import of oil products, and it is not al-Mashkour, told the Iraqi News Agency
Somo denies reports of oil equipped with any equipment or pipelines for (INA): “Self-sufficiency in gas will only be
exporting crude oil.”
achieved with the presence of major projects
smuggling from Zubair port mentioned in the misleading report are after launching a licensing round to produce
And it indicated that “all the tankers
the required quantities instead of importing
Iraq’s state oil marketer Somo denied this tankers officially contracted to transport black them.”
week that oil has been smuggled from Khor oil to the floating reservoir in Khor Abdullah Al-Mashkoor added: “The quantities
Al-Zubair. and at successive periods to be exported that are imported from Iran, Qatar, or even
The company said, in a statement received from there under official contracts with solid from other countries can be easily covered
by the Iraqi News Agency (INA), that “one international companies, and the quantities by operating some existing factories or
of the social media platforms published loaded on them are subject to conformity refineries.”
misleading and incorrect information with high transparency by the concerned He pointed out that “the Karbala
regarding the existence of cases of smuggling authorities.” According to the statement. refinery has operated at its full capacity,
of Iraqi crude oil from the port of Khor And she stressed that “the Oil Marketing and will provide approximately 40-60% of
Al-Zubair by foreign tankers with the Company holds the party that published the imported quantities, and finding such
participation of the Oil Marketing Company.” the report responsible for misleading public solutions will go in Iraq to finding sufficient
She added: “The Oil Marketing Company opinion and reserves its legal right to sue quantities that make us need to import, but it
is legally responsible for exporting Iraqi crude them for that.” is possible to achieve surplus quantities that
oil, and this process takes place under solid INA we export.”
contracts with major international companies, The Karbala refinery started production
and the exported quantities are loaded into last month in an official and popular presence,
tankers through official ports.” GAS and the director of the Karbala refinery,
She indicated that “the quantities exported, Muhammad Fazaa, had confirmed earlier that
pumped to ports and received by foreign Iraq discussing export of the daily liquidation operations would reach
companies are matched by all concerned up to 140,000 barrels, and he clarified the
authorities and under the supervision of a gas from Karbala refinery planned daily production volume of gasoline.
specialized international company (a third INA
examiner) with high transparency. Detailed Last week, the Oil and Gas Committee in

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