OREANDA-NEWS. November 24, 2009. The State Customs Committee informs that for Jan-Oct the country exported 22.9 million tons of crude oil for US 9.3 bn, including 2.597 million tons for US1.32 bn in October, 2.26 million tons for US 1.14 bn in September, 245,515 tons for US 1.15 bn in August, 2.125 million tons for US 1.04 bn in June, 1.786 million tons for US 671.5 million in May, 2.515 million tons for US 885.47 million in April and 2.738 million for US 875.345 million in March.

For the reported period the SOCAR Department of Marketing & Economic Operations exported the whole volume of crude oil, while Azerbaijan International Operating Company (AIOC) did not carry out any export.

Last year AIOC did not export in December (as well as in November) versus October export of 6.257 million tons and SOCAR exported 1.594 million tons against 1.307 million tons.

By 1st November 2009 it was carried 34.775 million tons of oil (including 3.679 million tons in October) via pipelines (data of controlling and measuring appliances) and 1.119 million tons (151,247 tons in October) of oil by rail.

“2.1 million tons out of overall transportation were transported via Baku-Novorossiysk oil pipeline, 29.18 million tons via Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipe, and 3.488 million tons via Baku-Supsa pipe,” the Committee said.

In October it was transported 247,313 tons via Baku-Novorossiysk pipeline.

(versus 139,764 in September, 239,813 in August, 247,835 tons in July, 170,843 in June, 224,612 in May, 224,473 tons in April, 224,253 tons in March, 219,145 tons in February and 167,444 tons in January 2009), 3.068 million tons via BTC (versus 3.005 million tons, 3.088 million tons, 3.178 million tons, 3.196 million tons, 3.155 million tons, 2.77 million tons, 2.9 million tons, 2.45 million tons and 2.34 million tons respectively), 363,519 tons via Baku-Supsa (versus 363,320 tons, 215,899 tons, 314,950 tons, 373,701 tons, 373,036 tons, 378,304 tons, 382,932 tons, 339,569 tons and 383,033 tons respectively).

Railway carriages in October totaled 151,247 tons versus 153,194 tons in  September, 110,521 tons in August, 132,797 tons in July, 10,644 tons in June, 169,746 tons in May, 210,748.6 in April, 64,489.5 tons in March, 81,331 tons in February and 45,773 tons in January.

For 2008 average export price of Azeri oil made US 565.67 per ton and in December 2008 the price dropped to US 373.89 per ton.

For October 2009 oil was exported for the average price of US 507.11 per ton and for Jan-Oct period – US 405.96 per ton.

Azerbaijan’s overall export for Jan-Oct 2009 totaled US 11.56 bn.