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Azerbaijan to export oil products to Afghanistan

20 September 2010 [17:38] - TODAY.AZ
Azerbaijan plans to ship oil to new markets, Vice President of State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) for Investment and Marketing Elshad Nasirov said.
As a whole, Azerbaijan does not intend to increase volume of petroleum exports, as exports of crude oil is much profitable, Nasirov added.

"Presently, Azerbaijan exports oil mainly to Georgia. At the same time, we export jet fuel to Greece and Italy and diesel fuel to the Mediterranean region,” he said.

Nasirov noted that Azerbaijan has already identified promising new markets for export of petroleum products.

“We will be export diesel fuel, gasoline and kerosene for aviation to Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan. Oil will be shipped to Asghanistan by ferries till Turkmenistan and from there - by rail. The volume of petroleum to be exported from Azerbaijan to the market is not so large. "

In January-August 2010, consumers received 4.2 million tons of petroleum products (including exports), which is 5.5% more the same period of last year.

Nearly 57.5% were used to meet domestic demand while 42.5% was exported. About 39.3% petroleum accounted for diesel fuel, 18.7% - gasoline, 9,4% - of kerosene for aviation, 3,8% - fuel oil, 3.7% - liquefied natural gas, 3.5% - bitumen , 1,3% - lubricating oil, and 20,3% - other petroleum products.


/Vesti.az/
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