Kazakhstan relies on its rainy-day fund to fill the budget gaps, although plans to reduce the transfer from the fund to the state budget to 2.4 trillion tenge in 2024.

SOFAZ sovereign wealth oil fund holds proceeds from oil contracts, oil and gas sales, transit fees and other revenue.

The country's revenues from gas exports rose by 56 percent year-on-year to $2.95 billion.

A BP-led consortium produces oil at Azerbaijan’s giant off-shore Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli (ACG) oilfields, which account for most of the country’s oil production.

Oil and gas condensate production declined 0.9 percent from January to September from a year earlier to 25.9 million tonnes, while natural gas output increased 15.1 percent to 31.7 bcm.

The country's revenues from gas exports rose by 56 percent year-on-year to $2.95 billion.

Gross domestic product (GDP) grew 4.8 percent in January-September this year from a year earlier mainly backed by the growth in the non-oil sector.