Ukraine has imported 740 tons of propane-butane mixture (LPG) from Azerbaijan in the beginning of the third decade of November, according to UPECO consulting company. Ukraine hasn’t previously received liquefied gas from Azerbaijan. “The importers are Ukrainian Nadezhda company and SOCAR Energy Ukraine (subsidiary of Azerbaijan’s state oil company SOCAR), which contracted for 530 tons…
BP Azerbaijan company plans to suspend gas output at the Shah Deniz platform in 2017 due to technical-preventive, repair and adjustment work at the Sangachal terminal, Bakhtiyar Aslanbayli, communications, external affairs, strategy & region vice president at BP Azerbaijan, reported. In 2017 it is planned to carry out repair and adjustment work on a section…
BP and the Azerbaijani state oil company SOCAR are discussing the plans on oil production at the Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli (ACG) block of oil and gas fields for 2017, Bakhtiyar Aslanbayli, BP vice president for communications, external affairs, strategy and region, reported. The annual production plan has not been approved yet and it is difficult to talk…
Azerbaijan will start accepting applications from investors wishing to work in its free trade zone (FTZ) in March 2017, Eugene Seah, chief operating officer of the Baku International Sea Trade Port, said. Preparation is now underway in the run-up to the start of accepting applications from companies interested to operate in the FTZ. Azerbaijan’s President…
Azerbaijan’s Energy Minister Natig Aliyev could participate in OPEC’s December 9 meeting with non-OPEC countries, Energy Ministry has said in a message. Aliyev will take part in the meeting in case a relevant invitation is received and it is decided that participation is expedient. “I believe the meeting will determine volume of production cut by…
The EU has successfully implemented more than 45 twinning projects in Azerbaijan, Head of Operations Section at the EU Delegation in Azerbaijan Jeroen Willems said. “This is a very good indicator, and it, in particular, exceeds the number of projects in Georgia and Moldova”, he said. “More than 30 public institutions used twinning-tools during the…
The deficit in Azerbaijan’s payment balance will amount to $5 billion in 2016, Elman Rustamov, chairman of the country’s Central Bank (CBA), said. Rustamov said the biggest part of deficit of Azerbaijan’s balance of payments, that is 88% to 90%, was associated with problems in the capital flow balance. “It cannot be said that the…