According to the preliminary statistics issued by the Iraqi Oil Marketing Company "SOMO", the total amount of exports of crude oil amounted to (100) million (913) thousand and (27) barrels with revenues amounting to $7.404 billion, said a statement by the Ministry of Oil.

The statistic indicated that the total exported quantities of crude oil for March, from the oil fields in central and southern Iraq, amounted to (98) million and (875) thousand and (692) barrels, while the quantities exported from the Kirkuk fields through the port of Ceyhan reached, (1) million and (727) thousand and (494) barrels. As for the average daily quantities exported, (3) million and (255) thousand barrels per day.

"The average price of one barrel amounted to more than $73.37," included the statement, noting that "the ministry, through its belief in informing the people about export operations and the revenues achieved from it, took this monthly measure."