Reduction of oil production and export affected natural gas and during 11 months, 2012 export dropped by 3.4% against the same period last year and totaled 6,144,147,900 cub.m.
State Customs Committee reported that from January to November 2012 gas export from Azerbaijan totaled 6,144,147,900 cub.m. During this period gas exported on the basis of simplified customs declarations totaled 2,394,045,900 cub.m. to the amount of $561,523,025.
Azerbaijani gas is exported by State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) to Russia, Iran and Georgia as well as by the Shah-Deniz consortium to Georgia and Turkey via the Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum gas pipeline.
Last year gas export totaled 7,092,209,000 cub.m. on the basis of the gas meters.
* Crude oil consists 85.03% of export, oil products - 5.5% and natural gas - 2.54%.-0-
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