Kuwait restarts oil exports after storm disruption

KUWAIT (Reuters) – Kuwait resumed oil exports on Sunday after a halt caused by adverse weather conditions, which also affected Iran, a spokesman of a Kuwaiti state oil company said on Sunday.

Top oil exporter Saudi Arabia had no interruptions in its crude flow to international markets, a spokesman for state oil company Saudi Aramco said.

“We resumed exports this afternoon,” Ahmad al-Muzaiel of the Kuwait National Petroleum Co told Reuters by telephone.

Kuwait, the world’s seventh-largest oil exporter, suspended its more than 2 million barrels per day (bpd) of oil shipments early on Sunday, Muzaeil said earlier.

Bad weather extended through the northern Gulf and exports from Iran’s main crude oil terminal Kharg Island have been intermittent since last Wednesday due to high winds.

Reuters