"Southern Iraq Oil Exports at Full Capacity"

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Iraq's southern oil terminals are fully operational, with exports running at between 1.7 million and 1.9 million barrels a day, port agents and Iraqi oil officials said Wednesday.

A port agent in the Gulf, speaking on condition of anonymity, told The Associated Press that last week's sabotage attacks on pipelines in southern Iraq did not appear to have affected exports. The agent said the terminals in the south were fully operational.

He said that between 70,000 barrels and 80,000 barrels an hour were being loaded from Iraq's offshore Basra oil terminal, the equivalent of 1.7 million and 1.9 million barrels a day.

An Iraqi oil official in Baghdad, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Dow Jones Newswires that the terminal was working at capacity.

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20040901/D84QRMIO0.html