Dubai: Iraq exported 2.8m barrels of oil per day in February, the highest such figure in at least a quarter-century.
Production hit 3.5m bpd, the deputy prime minister for energy affairs, Hussein al-Shahristani, told reporters in the southern port city of Basra as he inaugurated a refinery.
Iraq is trying to boost production capacity to 9m bpd by 2017. [03/03/14]
