OREANDA-NEWS. December 25, 2012. For Jan-Nov the share of crude oil in Azerbaijan’s overall export made up 85.03% against 86.62% in 2011, 86.53% in 2010 and 81.57% in 2009.

The State Customs Committee (SCC) informs that for Jan-Nov 2012 the country’s oil export reached 32.02 million tons (2.667 million tons in November versus 5.989 million tons in April (still the best index of the year) of oil (data of controlling and measuring appliances) and cargo custom declarations recorded only 22.48 million tons for USD 18.786 bn, i.e. 70.21% of overall export. This November 2.29 million tons of oil for USD 1.9 bn passed customs registration. Average export price of Azeri oil, according to customs statistics, still makes up USD 835.65 per ton in 2012, including USD 834.45 per ton

For Jan-Nov 2012 it was carried 25.655 million tons via Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) named after Heydar Aliyev, 3.615 million tons via Baku-Supsa pipeline, 1.827 million tons via Baku-Novorossiysk pipeline and 920.817 tons by rail via Baku-Batumi route.

Over 2011 the country’s oil export reached 37.45 million tons of oil (data of controlling and measuring appliances) and cargo custom declarations recorded only 27.825 million tons for USD 22.911 bn, i.e. 74.3% of overall export. Average export price of Azeri oil, according to customs statistics, made up USD 823.39 per ton in 2011.

Over 2011 the country’s oil export reached 37.45 million tons of oil (data of controlling and measuring appliances) and cargo custom declarations recorded only 27.825 million tons for USD 22.911 bn, i.e. 74.3% of overall export. Average export price of Azeri oil, according to customs statistics, made up USD 823.39 per ton in 2011.


In 2011 it was carried 30.658 million tons via Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) named after Heydar Aliyev, 3.812 million tons via Baku-Supsa pipeline, 1.996 million tons via Baku-Novorossiysk pipeline and 982.801 tons by rail via Baku-Batumi route.

In 2010 the country exported 31.86 million tons of crude oil for USD 18.45 million versus 27.829 million tons for USD 11.989 million in 2009.

By 1 January 2011 the pipelines pumped (data of controlling and measuring appliances) 4.414 million tons of oil (including 3.066 million tons in December) against 41.29 million tons in 2009 and carried 1.24 million tons (70,626 tons) by rail against 1.399 million tons.

It was pumped 2.247 million tons out of the total transportation via Baku-Novorossiysk oil pipeline in 2010 (against 2.48 million tons in 2009), 35.18 million tons (34.57 million tons) via BTC, 3.985 million tons (4.235 million tons) via Baku-Supsa oil pipeline.

In 2008 the average export price of Azerbaijani oil reached USD 565.67 per ton (including USD 373.89 per ton in December of that year), in 2009 - USD 430.83 per ton (USD 547.66 per ton in December), in 2010 - USD 579.19 per ton (USD 630.18 per ton). In 2011 the average export price was USD 683.65 per ton.

For Jan-Nov 2012 overall export from Azerbaijan totaled USD 22.09 bn.