OREANDA-NEWS. December 22, 2011. For Jan-Nov 2011 the share of crude oil in country’s overall export made up 86.5% against 86.53% in 2010 and 81.57% in 2009.

The State Customs Committee (SCC) informs that over the past 11 months the country’s oil export reached 34.99 million tons of oil (data of controlling and measuring appliances) and cargo custom declarations recorded only 25.9 million tons for USD 21.216 bn, i.e. 74.08% of overall export. This November export reached 2.58 million tons and export 2.5 million tons for USD 2.1 bn. As a result, export price of Azeri oil, according to customs statistics, made up USD 822.33 per ton for the reported term, including USD 837.75 in October.

For Jan-Nov 2011 it was carried 28.667 million tons via Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) named after Heydar Aliyev, 3.577 million tons via Baku-Supsa pipeline, 1.8 million tons via Baku-Novorossiysk pipeline and 914.005 tons by rail via Baku-Batumi route.

In 2010 the country exported 31.86 million tons of crude oil for USD 18.45 million versus 27.829 million tons for USD 11.989 million in 2009.

By 1 January 2011 the pipelines pumped (data of controlling and measuring appliances) 4.414 million tons of oil (including 3.066 million tons in December) against 41.29 million tons in 2009 and carried 1.24 million tons (70,626 tons) by rail against 1.399 million tons.

It was pumped 2.247 million tons out of the total transportation via Baku-Novorossiysk oil pipeline in 2010 (against 2.48 million tons in 2009), 35.18 million tons (34.57 million tons) via BTC, 3.985 million tons (4.235 million tons) via Baku-Supsa oil pipeline.

In 2008 the average export price of Azerbaijani oil reached USD 565.67 per ton (including USD 373.89 per ton in December of that year), in 2009 - USD 430.83 per ton (USD 547.66 per ton in December), in 2010 - USD 579.19 per ton (USD 630.18 per ton). In 2011 the average export price was USD 683.65 per ton.

This year’s overall export from Azerbaijan still totals USD 24.6 bn.