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Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Answer

Lynne Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs pursuant to his answer of 8 July 2004, Official Report, column 846W, on Iraq, whether Iraq's oil production was metered during Coalition Provision Authority rule; and how much oil was produced by Iraq during the Coalition's tenure. [185499] Mr. Rammell: When the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) took office there were no functioning meters in the Iraqi oil system. The CPA oil team had been pressing for meters to be installed as a matter of urgency, but as of 28 June--when the CPA dissolved-- the issue remained outstanding. However oil exports, either by pipeline to Ceyhan in Turkey or by tanker through the Arabian Gulf, were metered as they passed into the receiving tanks. Oil production during the CPA's tenure for each month from June 2003 to April 2004 is shown in table 1. Weekly data from May to the beginning of July 2004 is shown in table 2. Table 1: Iraq--average daily crude oil production _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Barrels per day (million) 2003 June 0.453 July 0.573 August 1.053 September 1.403 October 1.753 November 1.853 December 1.952 2004 January 2.103 February 2.003 March 2.203 April 2.303 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Table 2: Iraq--average daily crude oil production _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Barrels per day (million) 2004 30 April to 6 May 2.4 7-13 May 1.9 14-20 May 1.8 21-27 May 2.25 28 May to 3 June 2.4 4-10 June 2.3 11-17 June 2.1 18-24 June 1.15 25 June to 1 July 1.3 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

424 c544W;424 c544-5W; 185499

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Exports Iraq Income Oil Meters Production Coalition Provisional Authority

Contains statistics

Yes

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