Russia's oil export to far abroad countries up 10.6% in 2015 to 220.267 mln tonnes
MOSCOW. Jan 2 (Interfax) - Russia's oil export to far abroad countries grew 10.6% in 2015, year-on-year, to 220.267 million tonnes (4.423 million barrels a day), according to the operative report of Central Dispatching Department of Fuel Energy Complex (CDU TEK).
Russia exported 17.997 million tonnes of oil in December 2015 (4.256 million barrels a day) - 26.0% more than in December 2014.
Transneft pipelines carried 210.813 million tonnes of oil to far abroad countries last year (including 192.072 million tonnes of Russian resources) and another 28.195 million tonnes were supplied outside Transneft.
A total of 17.269 million tonnes of oil were exported to far abroad countries by Transneft networks in December (including 15.694 million tonnes of Russian resources), and 2.303 million tonnes were exported outside Transneft.
Some 22.072 tonnes of Russian resources were dispatched by Transneft networks via the port of Novorossiysk in 2015 (1.236 million tonnes in December); the shipments stood at 45.071 million tonnes in 2015 (4.095 million tonnes in December) for Primorsk, 30.435 million tonnes (2.813 million tonnes) for Kozmino and 17.587 million tonnes (999,700 tonnes) for Ust-Luga.
Rosneft exported 97.477 million tonnes to far abroad countries using Transneft networks last year (8.284 million tonnes in December), Lukoil exported 22.627 million tonnes (1.534 million tonnes), Surgutneftegas - 29.887 million tonnes (2.397 million tonnes), Gazprom Neft - 7.851 million tonnes (0.710 million tonnes), and Tatneft - 10.441 million tonnes (0.841 million tonnes).
Enterprises unaffiliated to vertically integrated oil companies shipped 13.385 million tonnes of oil to far abroad countries by use of Transneft networks in 2015 (1.106 million tonnes in December). Production sharing project operators exported 1.505 million tonnes (128,700 tonnes in December).
In 2015, transit stood at 15.125 million tonnes for Kazakhstan (1.418 million tonnes in December), 1.270 million tonnes for Azerbaijan, 730,900 tonnes for Turkmenistan (20,800 in December) and 1.615 million tonnes for Belarus (135,900 in December).
Oil exports of Russian oil companies to near abroad countries grew 0.6% year-on-year in 2015 to 22.629 million tonnes. Resources were supplied to Belarus only.
