OREANDA-NEWS. December 22, 2009. This November import totaled 2,385 tons for US3.36 million against 2,455 tons for US 2.38 million in October, 1,777 tons for US 1.95 million in September, 8,476 tons for US 6.58 million in August, 11.192 million tons for US 6.772 million in June and 3.689 million tons for US 3.397 million in May.

The State Customs Committee has informed for Jan-Nov 2009 the share of oil products in country’s overall import made only 0.91%.

For Jan-Nov 2009, as well as in 2008, Azerbaijan did not import oil gas and other gas hydrocarbons, while their import in 2007 reached 470.118 million cu m for US 52.086 bn (0.91% of 2007 overall import).

For Jan-Nov 2009 export of oil products from Azerbaijan totaled 2.88 million tons for US 1.36 bn (10.35% of country’s overall export with 30.54% decline versus Jan-Nov 2008). The past year’s export of oil products from Azerbaijan totaled 2.847 million tons for US 2.05 bn, and for November 2009 – 179,171 tons for US 97.119 bn.

For Jan-Nov 2009 it was exported 2.09 million tons of petroleum products for US879.37 million in freely convertible currency in accordance with the contracts versus 2.8 million tons of petroleum products for US 2.02 bn in 2008.

For Jan-Nov of the year sales in accord with contracts in national currency totaled 767,580 tons for US 471.475 million, and registration for export in accord with conventional declarations was passed by 128,546 tons versus 37.505 tons for US 31.668 million for the 2008 same term.

For Jan-Nov 2009 the SOCAR Department of Marketing & Economic Operations exported 1.916 million tons (66,53%) of petroleum products, Department AZAL Oil CJSC of Azerbaijani Airlines AZAL 767,580 tons (26.64%), oil-processing plant Azneftyag 114,259 tons (3.97%), and Ilqar Firm 50,916 tons (1.77%).

In 2008, the SOCAR Department of Marketing & Economic Operations exported 2.47 million tons (86.89%) of petroleum products, QKSSS LLC 98,274 tons (3.45%), Azneftyag 92,333 tons (3.24%), Caspian Petrol-1 69,210 tons (2.43%).

For Jan-Nov 2009 foreign trade turnover of Azerbaijan totaled US18.614 bn, including import of US 5.448 million and export of US 13.165 bn.