BAKU, Azerbaijan, Feb. 8
By Fidan Babayeva - Trend:
The volume of gas sales from Azerbaijan abroad amounted to 13.5 billion cubic meters in 2020, which is by 590 million cubic meters less than the forecast, Trend reports citing the report of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Energy on the results of 2020.
According to the ministry, the volume of gas sales abroad increased by 1.8 billion cubic meters, that is, by 15.6 percent.
In 2020, gas production in Azerbaijan increased by 4 percent compared to 2019 and amounted to 37.1 billion cubic meters. At the same time, natural gas from Azerbaijan was exported to the markets of Turkey and Georgia, and on the last day of the year began to be exported for the first time to the European market.
“Last year, the Gas Processing Plant processed 3.8 billion cubic meters of gas. In exchange for the relative decline observed in refining due to lower demand for petroleum products, gas processing increased by more than 17 percent,” said the report.
SOCAR carried out about 56,000 meters of drilling in 2020. The company, independently or as a major participant, produced 7.3 billion cubic meters of gas from the exploited fields.
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