Baghdad, May 11: Iraq could resume oil exports by next month, when production might get back to one million barrels per day (BPD), the acting head of the oil ministry, Thamir Ghadhban, said today. "We hope that during June refining capacity in Iraq will exceed half a million BPD. So concurrent with that, oil production in Iraq will exceed a million BPD," Ghadhban told a press conference. "There will be excess in crude oil on top of the refining requirement. Then this might open a door for exports or injecting the excess crude oil in the (oil) reservoirs," he said. Oil exports are needed to pay for the massive rebuilding process in Iraq, where UN sanctions are still in place that control the sale of crude. The United States has presented the UN Security Council with a proposal to lift them. Bureau Report