Azerbaijan, Baku, 30 March / Trend / In January 2008, the United States imported 173,000 barrels of oil products from Azerbaijan, while in January 2007 oil products were not imported from Azerbaijan to the United States, the US state-run Energy Information Agency (EIA) reported.
In 2007, the United States imported from Azerbaijan 2.2mln barrels of oil products, while in 2006 the amount comprised 351,000 barrels. In 2005, the United States purchased 563,000 barrels and 2004 - 484,000 barrels of Azerbaijan's oil products.
Oil products in Azerbaijan are produced at two Baku oil refineries with the total capacity of 20mln tons of oil per year. Both refineries are owned by the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) which annually processes over 6mln tons of oil produced in the onshore and offshore fields through its own funds.