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Azerbaijan produces about 4.7 million tons of oil products in 2009

Oil&Gas Materials 6 January 2010 12:56 (UTC +04:00)

Azerbaijan, Baku, Jan. 6 / Trend /

In 2009, Azerbaijan produced 4.69 million tons of petroleum products compared to 5.88 million tons in 2008, SOCAR said. In December, the country produced 428,930 tons of petroleum products compared to 376,230 tons in November 2009 and 497,240 tons in December 2008.

In 2009, the largest volume of production fell on diesel fuel - 2.22 million tons compared to 2.42 million tons in 2008.

Oil products are produced at two Baku refineries with capacity of 20 million tons of oil per year. Two refineries enter SOCAR annually processing 7 million tons of oil extracted onshore and offshore owing to own funds. In 2009 the ORP's refined about 6.03 million tons of oil compared to 7.35 in 2008.

Aggregate table reflecting oil processing and oil products production in 2009:

Oil products

2009 (thousands tons)

2008 (thousands tons)

Petrol - total

1467.6

1587.4

Auto petrol

1235.04

1307.81

- Straight-run petrol

232.56

279.59

Kerosene KO-20

6.52

41.45

Diesel

2219.7

2423

Heating oil

0.46

0.56

Furnace oil

272.44

1112.96

Petroleum bitumen

236.36

220.37

Petroleum coke

127.18

168.93

Lubricants

44.18

53.04

Liquefied

173.3

181.13

Motor fuel DT

145.27

99.98

Total

4692.09

5888.82

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