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 Trend News conducted an exclusive interview with Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov |
 Dec.25, the price of AZERI LT CIF Augusta was $76.32 per barrel. The price did not changed compared to the previous day's price due to lack of trades in connection with the Christmas holidays, the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR), which has produced Light Oil since 1997, reported. |
 SOCAR (State Oil Compnay of Azerbaijan) plans to put into operation 30 more filling stations under its brand in 2010, SOCAR Energy Georgia (subsidiary of SOCAR in Georgia) said today. "There are many great plans concerning filling stations. About 30 new stations are planned to be opened next year," the source said. |
 According to the payment balance published by the Central Bank of Azerbaijan (CBA), as of Jan.- Sep. 2009 the surplus of the current transactions of the Azerbaijani payment balance hits $7.1 billion, including surpluses of current transactions in oil and gas sector worth $10.2 billion. This fully covers shortage of current transaction in non-oil sector worth $3.1 billion, the CBA reported today. |
 Amir Kabir University and Iran's Aerospace Industries Organization signed a production agreement on AUT SAT satellites, said Shahruh Mahdavi, a contract expert at the university. He said design works have ended and production has begun, the Mehr news agency reported. |
 The country will construct a new stadium with a capacity of 60,000 seats in the Boyuk Shor settlement of Baku, Youth and Sports Minister Azad Rahimov told journalists today. The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) will finance the construction of the stadium. |
 The Azerbaijani and Georgian interior ministers discussed combating transnational crime at a meeting today. Azerbaijani Interior Minister, Colonel-General Ramil Usubov received his Georgian colleague Vano Merabishvili in his offices, the Azerbaijani Interior Ministry's press service said. |
 The total amount of foreign capital in Azerbaijan Economy totaled $4.1 billion during January-September 2009, the CBA payment balance reported. The basis of this indicator fell on direct investment and external loans, attracted in the country's economy. |
 At present, the average gas supply of Bakgaz (distribution and sale of gas to Baku), under the Azerigas Production Unity (PU), to the Baku gas supply system is 10.6 million cubic meters compared to 10.4 as of Dec.21, a source in the company said. Earlier, Azerigas JSC was attached to the structure of SOCAR (Sate Oil Company of the Azerbaijan) as PU. |
 The State Supervision Service on Consumer market at the Azerbaijani Economic Development Ministry removed over 2.7 tons of the expired products from retail sale points during the monitoring, the ministry said today. |
 Several member countries of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) have committed to prioritizing Indonesia as a crude oil receiver, the detikcom online news quoted an official as saying on Monday, Xinhua reported. "We have talked bilaterally with several oil ministers. We want Indonesia to be prioritized to get crude oil supply," said the Upstream Regulating Agency's Director General of Oil and Gas Evita Herawati Legowo here. |
 Cuba's Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador to Azerbaijan Marcelo Caballero Torres spoke in an interview with Trend News on the eve of Liberation Day and the anniversary of the victory of the revolution - January 1. |
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