Iraq: First Iraq-Flagged Oil Tanker in 3 Decades Leaves Port

Jun 10, 2018 | Agence France-Presse
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An Iraq-flagged tanker carrying two million barrels of crude oil has set sail for the US, the first such trip in nearly three decades, the oil ministry said Saturday. Iraq, which has been ravaged by a series of wars since the 1980s, is OPEC's second biggest producer with 153 billion barrels of proven crude reserves.