Iraq wants to boost its oil output to 8 million bpd by 2027

Iraq wants to boost its oil production to 8 million bpd by 2027 according to the country’s oil minister Ihsan Ismaael, with a current oil production capacity of around 5 million bpd. Iraq was one of the five countries that negotiated a higher baseline for its OPEC+ quota, which will rise from 4.653 million bpd through April 2022 to 4.803 million b/d in May 2022 onwards.