Azerbaijan, Baku, 9 April / corr. Trend A. Badalova/ U.S. expects that the export of oil by Azerbaijan will rise by 25.25% in 2009 and will total to 1.24mln barrels per day (61mln tons per year), said the forecast by Energy Information Administration (EIA) released on 9 April. The export of Azerbaijani oil to the world markets has been placed at 0.99mln barrels (49mln tons) for 2008.
Azerbaijan exports mainly the oil of Azeri Light brand produced in bloc of fields Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli. The oil is shipped via Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan. The larger proportion of oil is shipped by American ExxonMobil and DevonEnergy from Georgian Batumi port where the Azerbaijani oil is transported by railway. There is also Baku-Supsa oil pipeline which will become operational after repairs in mid-2008. The oil produced by SOCAR in its fields is shipped via Baku-Novorossiysk pipeline.
The total volume of export of oil by countries, not included in OPEC, will total to 49.83mln barrels in 2008 per day, EIA said. The volume of export will rise by 1.47mln barrels in 2009 and will total to 51.3mln barrels per day in 2009.
According to EIA forecast, the oil export by Turkmenistan will rise up to 0.2mln barrels per day against 0,19mln barrels in 2008. The export of oil will total to 1.5mln barrels per day in Kazakhstan in 2008.
Energy Information Administration is a statistic agency of U.S. Energy Department founded by Congress in 1977.
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