Azerbaijan, Baku, Sept.16 / Trend /
Some 33.5 million tons of oil and condensate was produced in Azerbaijan in January-August. This index is by 6.3 percent more than index of oil and condensate production in January-August 2008, the Azerbaijani state statistics committee said.
Major volume of oil and gas condensate production fell on the block of the Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli offshore fields and the gas condensate Shah Deniz field - 27.8 million tons of oil and condensate, which is by 8 percent more than the same period of 2008.
Gas production was almost 15.7 billion cubic meters in Azerbaijan in January-August that an increase of 0.6 percent than in 2008. About 6.9 billion cubic meters of gas fell on Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli (associated gas) and Shah Deniz with a 23-percent increase from the same period of 2008.
Roughly 12.2 billion kilowatt-hour of energy was produced in Azerbaijan in January-August 2009 that 10.4 percent lower than in the same period of 2008.
