Iraq’s Oil Exports Increase to Top Mark Since Invasion

Iraq’s oil production and exports have risen to their highest levels since the March 2003 U.S.-led invasion, the Oil Ministry said Monday.

The country’s exports reached 2.11 million barrels a day in March while the total output stood at about 2.5 million barrels a day, spokesman Assem Jihad told The Associated Press.

“The figures in May showed that we have succeeded in reaching the prewar levels, both in production and exports,” he said.

The Energy Information Administration, part of the U.S. Energy Department, estimated Iraqi production at about 2.6 million barrels a day in early 2003. Production tapered off just before the U.S.- led invasion, then dropped to below 1.5 million barrels a day, according to the group.

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