SOCAR raises oil exports via Novorossiisk in 2004

The State Oil Company of the Azerbaijani Republic (SOCAR) shipped 2.559 mm tons of oil out of the port at Novorossiisk in 2004, a 3.1 % increase from the year prior, SOCAR told.
Oil transport via the Baku-Novorossiisk route came to 2.424 mm tons, 2.8 % less than in 2003.

SOCAR put 163,600 tons through the Baku-Novorossiisk pipeline in December 2004 alone. It plans to export 2.5 mm tons of oil in 2004 as a whole.
SOCAR transported 215,000 tons of oil through this pipeline for Azerbaijan International Operating Company in 2004.