Iran can add 500,000 bpd oil supply in a year: Fatih Birol, IEA chief

Iran is expected to add half a million barrels of oil supply a day within a year from its existing oilfields after sanctions against Tehran were lifted in January, the head of International Energy Agency said on Wednesday.

“It was misleading to believe that there would be a huge amount of new Iranian crude and natural gas production entering market in the short term,” Fatih Birol, IEA’s executive director told Reuters.