据能源经济1月12日消息称，一位伊拉克石油消息人士称，在海湾港口完成泵站安装后，欧佩克的第二大石油生产国将能够从第二季起将石油日出口量增加多达25万桶。

该消息人士称，这一升级工作解释了为什么伊拉克在过去一年中提高了对产量目标的遵守程度。伊拉克长期以来一直在欧佩克生产配额之外生产石油。升级本可以阻止该国加大产量。

伊拉克国家石油营销组织(SOMO)从巴士拉南部港口出口了370万桶/天，但由于需要修复老化的出口基础设施，伊拉克从2020年5月开始进行升级工作，因此削减了南部港口的出口。

疫情导致的油价暴跌和伊拉克严格的监管导致由国有巴士拉石油公司 (BOC) 运营的项目推迟。

伊拉克石油部的一位消息人士告诉路透社，为提高巴士拉的出口能力而安装新泵站的工作在2021年的大部分时间里都在进行。

该消息人士称，他们的启动将使巴士拉的运营原油出口能力从目前的320万桶/天增加到340万- 345万桶/天，目标日期为第二季度。

曹海斌 摘译自 能源经济

原文如下：

Iraq to boost southern oil export capacity from second quarter

OPEC's second-largest oil producer, will be able to boost exports by as much as 250,000 barrels per day (bpd) from the second quarter after finishing the installation of pumping stations at its Gulf ports, an Iraqi oil source said.

The upgrade work explains why Iraq, which had long pumped above its OPEC production quota, has improved compliance with output targets over the past year, the source said. Upgrades would have prevented the country from pumping larger volumes.

Iraq's State Oil Marketing Organisation (SOMO) had exported as much as 3.7 million bpd from its southern ports in Basra, but the need to rehabilitate aging export infrastructure forced Iraq to reduce southern exports when upgrade work began from May 2020.

The pandemic-driven slump in oil prices and tight Iraqi regulations resulted in delays to the projects, which were run by state-owned Basra Oil Co (BOC).

Work to install new pumping stations to boost export capacity from Basra took place for most of 2021, an Iraqi oil ministry source told Reuters.

Their start-up will increase Basra's operational crude export capacity to 3.40 million-3.45 million bpd from 3.20 million bpd currently, with a target date of the second quarter, the source said.

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