Iraq's oil exports decline due to bad weather

Iraq's oil exports decline due to bad weather
2013-06-11T10:45:13+00:00

“The dust storms sweeping the country from time to time affect the work of oil tankers,” The Manader of the company's relations, Thaer Yassin told “Shafaq News”.

“Those storms affects the low percentage of oil exports, but did not stop it ,” he added.

Iraq’s governorates witnessed on Monday dust storms, as the Iraqi Meteorological organization and Seismology of the Ministry of Transportation said in a statement today that the weather in: Northern region: will be sunnywith light dust and the same in the central and southern regions: with dust in some places that increases gradually with the chance of dust storms in multiple places.

Exports from Basra, the main oil export center in Iraq witness often severe fluctuations due to weather or technical problems.

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