Iran sells more oil to private exporters to bypass US curbs

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Oil

Dubai: Iran sold 700,000 barrels of crude oil to private companies for export in a second round of sales aimed at countering US sanctions on the country`s exports, oil ministry news website SHANA reported.

Three unnamed companies paid $64.97 per barrel for two crude shipments of 245,000 barrels each and one shipment of 210,000 barrels, which were traded on Iran`s energy bourse, SHANA reported.

Iran began selling crude oil to private companies for export in late October, just ahead of US sanctions on sectors including oil which came into effect on Nov. 5.

Crude oil trade is state-controlled in Iran. Earlier, private refining companies could only buy crude oil for exports of oil products.

Iran said in July it would start oil sales to private firms as part of its efforts to keep exporting oil and would take other measures to counter sanctions after the United States told allies to cut all imports of Iranian oil from November.

(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by The Kashmir Monitor staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

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