2 Jul 2013 14:24

Russian oil exports to non-CIS countries down 2.3% in H1

MOSCOW. July 2 (Interfax) - Russian oil exports to non-CIS countries fell 2.3% year-on-year in January-June to 103.554 million tonnes (4.194 million barrels per day), the Central Dispatching Department of the Fuel and Energy Complex (CDU TEK) said.

This included 16.328 million tonnes in June (3.989 million barrels a day), down 3.9% year-on-year.

The Transneft pipeline network pumped 103.104 million tonnes of oil in the 6M, and exports bypassing Transneft came to approximately 11.288 million tonnes, (respectively 16.254 million tonnes and 1.864 million tonnes in June).

Transneft pipelines carried 18.934 million tonnes of export oil, including transit volumes, via the port of Novorossiysk in the 6M (3.182 million tonnes in June), 10.598 million tonnes via Kozmino (1.698 million tonnes), 28.804 million tonnes via Primorsk (3.757 million tonnes) and 11.392 million tonnes via Ust-Luga (1.902 million tonnes).

OJSC Rosneft exported 31.373 million tonnes of oil via Transneft to non-CIS countries in January-June (5.257 million tonnes in June), Lukoil - 10.231 million tonnes (1.54 million tonnes), Surgutneftegas - 14.941 million tonnes (2.233 million tonnes), TNK-BP - 13.681 million tonnes (2.216 million tonnes), Gazprom Neft - 4.224 million tonnes (389,000 tonnes) and Tatneft - 5.85 million tonnes (800,000 tonnes).

Enterprises that are not part of vertically integrated oil companies exported 5.472 million tonnes of oil via Transneft in the 6M (904,000 tonnes in June), and production-sharing agreement (PSA) project operators exported 756,300 tonnes (125,000 tonnes).

Transit of oil from Kazakhstan totaled 9.213 million tonnes (1.489 million tonnes) and transit of Azerbaijani crude - 825,300 tonnes (169,400 tonnes).

Russian oil companies raised oil exports to CIS countries 1.6% year-on-year in January-June to 14.54 million tonnes. Exports to Belarus grew 2% to 11.093 million tonnes. Exports to Kazakhstan jumped 26.9% to 3.446 million tonnes. Russia did not export oil to Ukraine.