Egypt officially announced import oil from Iraq instead of Saudi Arabia



23/12/2016


Said Egyptian Minister of Petroleum «Mullah Tariq», on Thursday, that Egypt is seeking to reach an agreement with Iraq to import crude from him directly during the first quarter of next year 2017.

«Mullah» he said on the sidelines of a conference «Arab countries Organization of Petroleum Exporting» «OAPEC» held in Cairo, on Thursday, said that the target imported from Iraq quantities ranging between one million and two million barrels per month.

According to a "homeland singing" was «Mullah» has conducted a visit to the Iraqi capital Baghdad at the end of October / last October, while the number of members of the National Alliance, called on the Iraqi government to grant Egypt crude oil in response to the blackmail practiced by Saudi Arabia against Cairo.

The Egyptian Ministry of Petroleum announced earlier, the company «Aramco» Saudi Arabia did not send for the month of November last fuel shipments, and did not reach Egypt's position that the $ 700 thousand tons per month to meet the needs of the local market of fuel shipments.

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