Iraq is sticking with plans to increase crude production capacity to as much as 6mn b/d by 2020, despite fiscal constraints that have prompted foreign upstream operators to cut their development budgets. Iraq’s output, including production from the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan, is around 4.5mn b/d, state-owned marketer Somo’s director-general, Falah al-Amri, says. Capacity is 4.9mn b/d and the 2020 target is still feasible if foreign oil companies’ investments continue, he says. But production has fallen since January’s record high of 4.78mn b/d, al-Amri says, attributing the drop to a 175,000 b/d reduction from Kirkuk, partly because of a continuing dispute between Baghdad and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). Power supply problems in southern Iraq have cut output by 50,000-70,000 b/d at times, he says.
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机译：伊拉克一直坚持到2020年将原油产能提高到每天600万桶的计划，尽管财政紧缩促使外国上游运营商削减了发展预算。国有市场商索莫（Somo）总干事法拉赫·阿姆里（Falah al-Amri）表示，伊拉克的产量，包括库尔德斯坦半自治区的产量，约为450万桶/日。他说，产能为490万桶/天，如果外国石油公司继续投资，到2020年目标仍然可行。 al-Amri说，自1月份创纪录的478万桶/天以来，产量一直在下降，这归因于Kirkuk的产量下降了17.5万桶/天，部分原因是巴格达与库尔德地区政府（KRG）之间持续存在争议。他说，伊拉克南部的电力供应问题有时使产量减少了50,000-70,000 b / d。
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