OREANDA-NEWS. July 20, 2011. For Jan-Jun 2011 the share of crude oil in country’s overall export made up 85.74% against 86.53% in 2010 and 81.57% in 2009.

The State Customs Committee (SCC) informs that over the past 6 months the country’s oil export reached 20.007 million tons of oil (data of controlling and measuring appliances) and cargo custom declarations recorded only 14.1 million tons for USD 11.659 bn, i.e. 70.5% of overall export. This June export reached 3.29 bn tons and export 2.4 bn tons for USD 2.1 bn. As a result, export price of Azeri oil, according to customs statistics, made up USD 795.96 per ton for the reported term, including USD 873.02 per ton in June.

For Jan-Jun 2011 it was carried 16.308 million tons via Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) named after Heydar Aliyev, 2.049 million tons via Baku-Supsa pipeline, 1.087 million tons via Baku-Novorossiysk pipeline and 561,311 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 average export price of Azeri oil was USD 565.67 per ton (including USD 373.89/ton in December), in 2009 - USD 430.83/ton (USD 547.66/ton), and in 2010 - USD 579.19/ton (USD 630.18/ton).

In 2011 average export price is still USD 683.65/ton.

This year’s overall export from Azerbaijan totals USD 13.09 bn.