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Iraq Monitorعين على العراقPrimary-source intelligence

Iraq's crude price against the Dubai benchmark

≈−18latest · 2026-08

CALCULATED · 2026-08 · ON A PROVISIONAL READING

Provisional — from SOMO’s monthly statement. The statement gives rounded figures, so a price or daily rate derived from them is shown to the dollar and the ten thousand barrels; SOMO’s chart page, the typed record, replaces this reading the day it carries the month.

What Iraq actually got for a barrel against the Gulf benchmark its main grade is priced off. Below zero, Iraq sold under Dubai — discounts to keep buyers, distressed sales, or the grade mix; above it, the month leaned on barrels priced off a dearer benchmark.

VS 2026-06−$1.58VS YEAR AGO−$18.48COMPARE →HIGH · FULL RECORD+17.282026-04LOW · FULL RECORD−18.062026-08OBSERVATIONS31
−20.00−10.000.00+10.00+20.00Jan 24Sep 24May 25Dec 25Aug 26
≈−18 USD/bbl vs Dubai · 2026-08-31 · PROVISIONAL
Hollow markers are provisional readings from SOMO’s statement, replaced when the chart page carries the month