NEW YORK: Oil prices fell on Tuesday (12/02/2014) local time (Wednesday morning GMT) after the Iraqi government and the autonomous Kurdish reached an agreement to increase oil exports.
The benchmark US light sweet crude or West Texas Intermediate (WTI) for delivery in January, down 2.12 US dollars, to close at 66.88 dollars a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
Benchmark London, Brent crude for January delivery settled at $ 70.54 a barrel, down 2.00 dollars from Monday's close.
The Iraqi government and the Kurdish autonomous region on Tuesday announced an agreement settling their long-running dispute over the budget and oil exports.
Under the deal, which came into force at the beginning of next year, 250,000 barrels per day of oil will be exported from the autonomous regions and 300,000 barrels per day more of Kirkuk province.
The new deal that could help push the daily production of OPEC member Iraq passes three million barrels per day, up from about 2.5 million barrels in November.
"The additional 550,000 barrels per day is not a large amount of oil, but the market is already weak. It pushed prices down," said Michael Lynch of Strategic Energy and Economic Research.
Oil prices "hit" last weekend after the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) maintained its production ceiling despite abundant supply pushed prices sharply lower.
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