الأهمية الاقتصادية لنقل النفط في دول منظمة الأوبك مع إشارة خاصة إلى شركة ناقلات النفط العراقية

Abstract EN

Crude oil, refined products and gas considered as the most important products interms of value and quantity in maritime shipping, as many types of crude oil, petroleum and chemical products are transported by specially designed vessels.

Thetanker markets witnessed several developments in this field, the oil producing andexporting countries should keep pace of maintain and stabilize the world marketsfor oil transportation.

Some OPEC countries such as Kuwait and Saudi Arabia havebeen able to keep abreast of the developments in oil shipping، they diversified theirvessels and increase their number because it considered as one of the largestproducer countries and exporting oil products in international markets speciallySaudi Arabia which consider the largest producer in OPEC organization and has afleet of 46 VLCC (Very Large Crude Carrier).

Therefore, Iraq is still taking slowsteps in pursuing these developments، Iraqi Oil Tankers Company still have (4)small vessels with (53) thousand tons tonnage، although Iraq is the second largestoil producer within the OPEC countries and it should be own a fleet and a strongcompetitor in the international oil shipping markets