Iraq Producing More Than 2.5 Million Barrels Per Day: Minister

VIENNA, Sept 14 (AFP) - Iraq was producing more than 2.5 million barrels of oil per day and exporting two million, Iraqi Oil Minister Thamir Ghadhban said here on Tuesday.
The war-torn country was pumping "more than 2.5 million" barrels per day and managing to export 80 percent of that, the minister told reporters as he arrived in Vienna for an OPEC meeting on Wednesday.
Repeated sabotage of Iraqi oil pipelines, particularly in its southern fields, has hampered exports and cost the country more than a billion dollars in revenue.
Iraq holds 11 percent of the world's crude oil reserves but its output has been excluded from the OPEC's quota system since 1990 when the United Nations imposed sanctions on the country.
Before that it was producing 3.14 million barrels per day, on a par with Iran.