The Media Office of the Prime Minister of Iraq stated in a statement that after the great efforts that continued for the past three years, which resulted in the operation of new oil refineries as part of a plan to achieve self-sufficiency, and the increase in our local production of (gasoline, kerosene, white oil) to quantities exceeding local consumption rates, the Prime Minister of Iraq, Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani, ordered to stop importing these products." He added: "The Distribution Agent and the Oil Products Distribution Company must regulate domestic consumption and convert the surplus into exports."
