Exports from Iraq’s northern Kirkuk oilfields to the Turkish port of Ceyhan will stay at between 80-90,000 barrels per day (bpd) as most of the crude produced is being diverted to feed refineries in the north, Iraq’s oil minister said on Wednesday. Current production at the Kirkuk oilfields stands at around 370,000 bpd, the head of Iraq’s North Oil Company, Farid al-Jadir, told the same news conference. Jadir also said a BP technical team was now operating in Kirkuk and would prepare a study reviewing plans for increasing production by the end of 2019. “BP is currently working with the North Oil Company on preparing a technical study that will completely reevaluate Kirkuk production capacity and how to increase it,” he said. “They […]