OREANDA-NEWS. January 19, 2010. Last December, the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) increased volumes of gas export from the country by 57.1% against November when export rose by 12.1% compared with October of 2009.

The Company informs that in December gas export totaled 146.58 million cu m versus 93.3 million cu m in November, 83.2 million cu m in October, 62.8 million cu m in September, 53.75 million cu m in August, 40.85 million cu m in July, 41.83 million cu m in June, 50.86 million cu m in May, 100.69 million cu m in April, 90.65 million cu m in March, 99.45 million cu m in February, 167.32 million cu m in January of 2009 and 178.45 million cu m in December of 2008.

In 2009 it was exported 1.03 bn cu m versus 818.93 million cu m in 2008.

As a result for the past year SOCAR increased its own gas export by 25.9%. In 2010, due to contracts with Russia’s Gazprom and Iran’s NIGEC it is possible to forecast 2 or 3 fold rise of gas export by SOCAR.