June 23 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's crude oil exports in

April rose to 6.166 million barrels per day (bpd) from 5.754

million bpd in March, official data showed on Monday.

The world's largest oil exporter's crude output for April

was at 9.005 million bpd, up from 8.957 million bpd in March.

Saudi refineries' crude throughput was at 2.704 million bpd

in April, down 0.24 million bpd from March's 2.944 million bpd,

the data showed.

Direct crude burning decreased by 6,000 bpd to 377,000 bpd

in April.

Saudi Arabia and other members of OPEC provide monthly

export figures to JODI, which publishes them on its website.

In late May, OPEC+, the world's largest group of oil

producers, stuck to its guns with another big increase of

411,000 barrels per day for July.

Since April, the OPEC+ eight have now made or announced

increases totalling 1.37 million bpd, or 62% of the 2.2 million

bpd they aim to add back to the market. OPEC + eight refers to a

group of eight OPEC+ countries (Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iraq, UAE,

Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Algeria, and Oman).

The group could bring forward its output hikes by around a

year from the initial plan, Igor Sechin, head of Russia's

largest oil producer Rosneft, said on Saturday.

The conflict between Israel and Iran has sharply escalated

after the U.S. attacked an Iranian nuclear site further raising

tensions across the region.

There are mounting fears that an Iranian retaliation may

include a closure of the Strait of Hormuz, through which roughly

a fifth of global crude supply flows.