BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 20. Azerbaijan imported 388,149 tons of crude oil from Turkmenistan from January through May 2023, Trend reports.
Based on the information provided by the State Statistics Committee of Azerbaijan, the cost of importing crude oil from Turkmenistan in the first 5 months of this year exceeded $229.58 million, which is 13.4 times higher than the same period in 2022.
During the period from January through May of the previous year, Azerbaijan imported more than 30,726 tons of Turkmen oil worth more than $17.11 million.
In general, over the past year, Azerbaijan imported more than 352,715 tons of crude oil from Turkmenistan worth over $245.14 million.
Meanwhile, Azerbaijan imported a total of more than 906,734 tons of crude oil worth $514.9 million in the first five months of this year.