Iraq , OPEC’s second-largest oil producer, reiterated plans to boost crude output and exports by the end of the year as demand from Asian buyers strengthens. Production will rise to 3.5 million barrels a day by the end of December and increase further in 2014, Oil Minister Abdul Kareem al-Luaibi told reporters in Baghdad today. Iraq’s output is about 3.3 million barrels a day, Deputy Prime Minister Hussain Al-Shahristani said a week ago. China and India , Iraq’s two biggest customers, both requested additional supplies next year, Thamir Ghadhban, an adviser to Iraq’s prime minister, said in an interview in Baghdad today, without specifying how much more oil they sought. Japan asked for 300,000 barrels of crude a day and South Korea sought 250,000 barrels a day, he said. China will import 900,000 million barrels a day to 1 million barrels a day of Iraqi crude next year while […]