Baku, Azerbaijan, Sept.21
By Maksim Tsurkov - Trend:
Azerbaijan exported over 390 million tons of oil to world markets from 1997 till Sept.1, 2015, according to the article of Khoshbakht Yusifzade, first vice-president of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR).
Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline exported 283 million tons of oil, Baku-Supsa - 74 million tons and Baku-Novorossiysk - 12 million tons of oil, said the article.
The author noted that another 21 million tons of oil was exported via the railway through Georgia.
SOCAR's first vice-president further wrote that 27.8 million tons of oil and 19 billion cubic meters of gas were produced in Azerbaijan in Jan.-Aug. 2015 and SOCAR accounted for 5.5 million tons of oil and 4.6 million cubic meters of gas.
This is while 42 million tons of oil and 29.6 billion cubic meters of gas were produced in Azerbaijan in 2014 and SOCAR accounted for 8.3 million tons of oil and 7.2 billion cubic meters of gas.
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