OREANDA-NEWS. December 22, 2009. The State Customs Committee informs that for Jan-Nov the country exported.

25.575 million tons of crude oil for US10.7 bn, including 2.66 million tons for US 1.398 bn in November, 2.597 million tons for US 1.32 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 December 2009 it was carried 38.153 million tons of oil (including 3.377 million tons in November) via pipelines (data of controlling and measuring appliances) and 1.28 million tons (164,808 tons in November) of oil by rail.

“2.3 million tons out of overall transportation were transported via Baku-Novorossiysk oil pipeline, 31.95 million tons via Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipe, and 3.856 million tons via Baku-Supsa pipe,” the Committee said.

In November it was transported 239,235 tons via Baku-Novorossiysk pipeline (versus 247,313 tons in October, 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), 2.769 million tons via BTC (versus 3.068 million tons, 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), 368,935 tons via Baku-Supsa (versus 363,519 tons, 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 November totaled 164,808 tons versus 151,247 tons in October, 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 November 2009 oil was exported for the average price of US 525.43 per ton and for Jan-Nov period – US 418.39 per ton.

Azerbaijan’s overall export for Jan-Nov 2009 totaled US 13.165 bn.