Iraq’s federal government exported nearly 10 percent more oil in 2016 than it did the year before, though the Oil Ministry is cutting production in the new year as part of an OPEC agreement to pare global supplies and boost the price of oil.Not only did major fields increase production over the course of the year, but the Oil Ministry has been revamping its southern export system to accommodate the new volumes. In the north, a tenuous political deal with the autonomous Kurdistan Regional Gov…