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Azerbaijan boosts oil and gas pumping in January-October

19 November 2009 15:37 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Nijat Mustafayev â€“ APA-Economics. In total 42.2 million tons of oil was pumped through Azerbaijanâ€™s network of pipelines in January-October, up 12% from a year ago.

The State Statistical Committee said the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline (BTC) took 75% of oil transportation, pumping 32.1 million tons of oil from Azerbaijan to world markets, up 14.6% from a year ago.

Besides, 1.5 million tons of Kazakh oil flowed via the BTC Pipeline in January-October.

Also, 9.5 billion tons of natural gas was pumped via pipelines, up 4.9% from the same period last year.

Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum Pipeline took 4.3billion tons of gas, up 10.3% from the same period last year.