Poor weather and power outages cut into exports but an upward trend in the global oil price puts more money in Iraqi coffers. A tanker at the al-Basra Oil Terminal loads crude at night. Iraq earned its largest oil payout in eight months due to rising oil prices, even though the federal government’s May exports declined by nearly 5 percent.”The market is improving,” said Deputy Oil Minister Fayyadh Nema as he arrived in Vienna ahead of Thursday’s OPEC meeting.Iraq earned $3.745 billion on 3.2 million barrels per day (bpd) of exports, according to the Oil Ministry – the most revenue the government has generated since it took in $3.925 billion in August 2015.But with