Azerbaijan shipped 754,000 tonnes of oil via Russia in January-September, up from 330,000 tonnes shipped in the same period last year.

Expenditures reached 19.66 trillion soums, while the interest margin amounted to 10.5 trillion soums,

Minister praises industrial parks a month after Ukrainian parliament passes legislations governing them.

The resource-rich ex-Soviet country is now scheduled to produce 647,000 bpd in October.

Agreements include $600 million in privatisation deals, $2.6 billion in public private partnerships and $3.4 billion in foreign credit lines.

Ukraine’s State Property Fund has organised more than 1,500 privatisation auctions and raised some $82.9 million.