Baku News

BAKU, October 3 (RIA Novosti, Geray Dadashev) - Azerbaijani state-owned oil company SOCAR exported about 718,000 metric tons of oil products during the first nine months of 2005, the company's press service said Monday. The figure includes 223,600 tons of gasoline, 109,000 tons of aircraft fuel, 308,000 tons of diesel, about 12,000 tons of butane and 65,500 tons of fuel oil. During the same period, the volume of the company's crude exports via the Baku-Novosibirsk pipeline totaled about 1.3 million tons, the press service said. During 2004 GNKAR exported 559,000 tons through the pipeline.