{"id":988,"date":"2026-03-03T17:16:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T17:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/988\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T17:16:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T17:16:19","slug":"iraq-reduces-oil-output-more-cuts-likely-if-hormuz-disruptions-persist-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/988\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq reduces oil output; more cuts likely if Hormuz disruptions persist, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baghdad\/Basra: Iraq has cut oil production by nearly 1.5 million barrels a day and those \u200ccuts could widen \u2060to more \u2060than 3 million bpd within days as the country runs out of storage and cannot export \u200bcrude due to the Iran crisis, two Iraqi oil officials told Reuters on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>As of \u200bTuesday, Iraq has cut production from the Rumaila oil field by 700,000 bpd, from the West Qurna 2 field by 460,000 bpd and from the Maysan field \u200bby 325,000 bpd, the officials, who did not wish \u2060to be \u200cnamed, said.<br \/>That output cut could grow to over 3 million \u200bbpd if \u200boil tankers cannot move freely through the Strait of Hormuz \u2060and reach loading ports, they added.<\/p>\n<p>Export disruptions from the Strait of \u200bHormuz slowdown pushed storage to critical levels in Iraq&#8217;s southern \u200bports, the sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Iraq produced about 4 million bpd in January.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ET logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/118783427.cms.png\" width=\"90%\"\/>Live Events<br \/>The Maysan field was producing 650,000 bpd prior to the cut, the officials said.<br \/>The U.S.-Israeli war with Iran has halted energy exports from the Middle East, with Tehran attacking ships and energy facilities, closing navigation in the Gulf and forcing production stoppages from Qatar \u200cto Iraq.Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz was closed for a fourth day after Iran attacked five ships, choking off a \u200bkey artery accounting for \u200babout 20% of \u2060global oil and liquefied natural gas supply.<\/p>\n<p>China and India are the two biggest recipients of Iraqi crude exports, accounting for nearly two-thirds of the OPEC member&#8217;s 3.33 million bpd \u200baverage exports in 2025, according to Kpler data, with a further 560,000 bpd going to Europe.<\/p>\n<p>BP, PetroChina and China National Offshore Oil Corporation, which operate the fields in Iraq, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Baghdad\/Basra: Iraq has cut oil production by nearly 1.5 million barrels a day and those \u200ccuts could widen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1042,94,1040,1043,187,1041,73,1044],"class_list":{"0":"post-988","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iraq","8":"tag-iran-crisis-impact-on-oil","9":"tag-iraq","10":"tag-iraq-oil-production-cuts","11":"tag-middle-east-oil-supply","12":"tag-middle-east-war","13":"tag-strait-of-hormuz-disruptions","14":"tag-us-israel-war-on-iran","15":"tag-war-updates"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116166379691551610","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}