Baghdad - Saba:
The US Energy Information Administration announced today, Sunday, that Iraq surpassed Saudi Arabia in oil exports to the United States for the second week in a row.
The Iraqi "Al-Maalouma" agency quoted the administration, in a table, as saying: "The average US imports of crude oil during the past week from ten major countries amounted to 6.016 million barrels per day, an increase of 251 thousand barrels per day from the previous week, which amounted to 5.765 million barrels per day."
It added: "Iraq's oil exports to America amounted to 180 thousand barrels per day last week, a decrease of 32 thousand barrels per day from the previous week, which amounted to 212 thousand barrels per day, thus exceeding Saudi Arabia, whose exports to America amounted to an average of 69 thousand barrels per day."
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