September’s Exports approached a record level achieved in Iraq last May when it recorded 2.58 million bpd, the highest since 2003 at least.

Reuters quoted the spokesman of the Iraqi Ministry of Oil on Thursday that the country's oil exports in September amounted to an average of 2.534 million barrels per day.

The spokesman said the oil exports achieved a revenue of seven billion dollars.

The total exports are shipped south of Iraq, while Kirkuk oil exports through Kirkuk - Ceyhan line stopped because of militant attacks on the line since last March.

After three months of ISIS progress north of Iraq , oil prices jumped to $ 115 a barrel, the fighting did not cause the decline in Baghdad’s exports from the south, where the main port of the country's shipments of crude to world markets is there.