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| Iran still second largest exporter in OPEC, data shows |
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 TEHRAN, Aug. 9 – Iran retains its position in 2010 as the second largest oil exporter in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, data from the British Petroleum Statistical Review of World Energy 2011 and the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) indicated.OPEC in its Annual Statistical Bulletin has put Nigeria ahead of Iran in regard to export of oil in 2010. The issue has been faced with reactions of Iran’s officials, called that report ‘ambiguous.’ But the report of Reuters about the world's top oil exporters in 2010, based on the BP and the EIA data, approves Iran’s claim, clarifying that Iran is still the second largest oil exporter in OPEC. According to the report, Iran’s crude exports reached 2.446 million barrels per day (mb/d) in 2010, keeping the country as the third largest oil exporter of the world and second largest oil exporter among OPEC’s twelve members. Saudi Arabia by exporting of 7.195 million barrels per day, was the largest oil exporter in the world and in OPEC. Russia (which isn’t OPEC’s member) with 7.071 mb/d was the second largest oil exporter in the world in 2010. According to the report, United Arab Emirates with 2.167 mb/d, Nigeria with 2.123 mb/d, and Kuwait with 2.095 mb/d, placed respectively in fourth, fifth and seventh ranks of the top oil exporters in 2010. In July, after releasing of OPEC’s report, Iranian OPEC governor Mohammad Ali Khatibi said Iranian experts had found ambiguities in some of the figures in the OPEC report and thus the experts "did not confirm Nigeria's export increase". "OPEC rationing is based on production, not export, and Iran still holds the second-largest OPEC producer status and no change has happened in this regard," said Khatibi. "In the report Iran's oil income exceeds that of Nigeria in 2010. Then how would it be possible for Nigeria's oil income to be less than that of Iran despite having boosted its exports?"
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