Business

19 August 2006 [09:19]

$2.1bln invested in Azerbaijani economy

It is estimated that investment of USD 2.1 bln has been made in the economy of Azerbaijan during the first half of the year.
19 August 2006 [09:16]

Taxes Ministry uncovers irregularities in 13 713 trade facilities

Taxes Ministry Operational Control Department have to date examined 50 606 various kinds of trade facilities and found serious irregularities in 13 713 of them.
19 August 2006 [09:13]

State Budget income forecast for implemented by 102.1%

During the first half of this year the income forecast of the state budget of Azerbaijan was implemented by 102.1% that is to say AZN 1547.2 mln against the forecast of AZN 1516.1 mln.
19 August 2006 [08:48]

UniBank CB and DEG signs credit agreement

UniBank CB and DEG (Deutsche Investitions und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH (the German Investments Corporation) signed a credit line agreement for $6 mn, which the Bank will on-lent towards SME (small and medium enterprise) projects.
19 August 2006 [08:38]

Diplomats visit Sangachal terminal

Azerbaijani ambassadors, consuls and heads of representative offices to foreign states visited Galagayin displaced-persons camp in Sabirabad in the frames of the meeting held in Baku.
18 August 2006 [23:53]

Oil up, Iran keeps up atomic work as deadlines near

Oil bounced on Friday as major OPEC producer Iran showed no sign of responding favorably to incentives aimed at resolving a nuclear row by a self-imposed Aug. 22 deadline.
18 August 2006 [21:57]

Turkey-Iran gas pipeline talks suspended

Turkey and Iran on Friday broke off talks on the construction of a gas pipeline linking Iranian gas fields to Europe.
18 August 2006 [21:20]

Trades at BICEX

The weighted average exchange prices made up 0.8850 AZN for 1 US dollar in the Baku Interbank Currency Exchange on August 17.
18 August 2006 [21:18]

Azerbaijan discloses fourth EITI report

The Committee on Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) established by the Government of Azerbaijan to implement its obligations taken at the conference on EITI held in June 2003 in London, on 18th August, 2006, announced the release of the Government's fourth EITI report (Jan-Dec 2005 assertion) audited by Deloitte, the independent Aggregator.
18 August 2006 [21:05]

Regions' gas supply restored

"Heads of executive powers of Agstafa, Gadabay, Samukh and Khanlar regions have not sent a letter of guarantee to Azerigas CJSC with regard to rising the collection of gas bills to 100%.
18 August 2006 [20:56]

Azerbaijan rescheduled Georgia's debt

Georgian and Azerbaijani Finance Ministers, Lexo Alexishvili and Samir Sharifov, respectively, signed an agreement on August 18 to reschedule repayment of Georgia's USD 13,4 million debt.
18 August 2006 [17:01]

Barda officials fail to pay electricity supply bills

Regional meeting dedicated to collection of fees for electricity, gas and other public utilities and removing shortfall in this field was held in Ganja city executive power.
18 August 2006 [16:56]

Criminal group stolen oil from Baku-Novorossiysk pipeline

Special operation was conducted to catch criminal gang having secretly stolen oil from Baku-Novorossiysk pipeline regularly.
18 August 2006 [09:44]

Azerbaijan-India business forum to be held in Baku

Azerbaijan-India business forum will be held in Baku on September 20-21, Tamerlan Garayev, extraordinary and plenipotentiary Ambassador informed.
18 August 2006 [09:42]

Maximum level of oil transportation via BTC will continue till 2013

Information was given by Rashid Javanshir, BTC Co. Executive Director.
18 August 2006 [09:35]

EBRD to allocate credit for energy station reconstruction

Azerenergy Joint-Stock Company will sign a credit agreement with European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to reconstruct thermoelectric station in Mingachevir.
18 August 2006 [09:33]

Taxes Ministry uncovers irregularities in 13 126 trade facilities

Taxes Ministry Operational Control Department have to date examined 48 130 various kinds of trade facilities and found serious irregularities in 13 126 of them.
18 August 2006 [09:29]

Leasing public properties brought some $2 mln to the State Budget

During January-July the State Committee for management of Public Property transferred AZN 1,8mn to the State Budget.
18 August 2006 [09:11]

SOCAR president meets with new postgraduates

State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) president Rovnag Abdullayev and the company future staff qualification commission members met with students who gained highest score (over 80 points) in examination and will be able to get master's degree abroad within Scholarship Program.
18 August 2006 [09:07]

Indian Trade Minister to visit Azerbaijan

Indian Trade Minister will visit Azerbaijan in September this year, Azerbaijani Ambassador to India Tamerlan Garayev informs.
17 August 2006 [21:40]

Trades at BICEX

The weighted average exchange prices made up 0.8852 AZN for 1 US dollar in the Baku Interbank Currency Exchange on August 16.
17 August 2006 [21:34]

Azerbaijan, Georgia held economic forum in Batumi

The Azerbaijan-Georgia business forum was held August 17 in Batumi with Prime Ministers Artur Rasizade of Azerbaijan and Zurab Nogaideli of Georgia in attendance.
17 August 2006 [21:09]

Azerbaijan's roads require $5 bn and 15 years

Azerbaijan is behind Armenia of the length of primary roads, Transport Ministry's Traffic Service Department chief Javid Gurbanov said at the media briefing.
17 August 2006 [14:35]

Emergencies Ministry to bring fire equipment to Azerbaijan

"Fire-engines as well as fire fighting appliances and special uniforms will be brought to Azerbaijan by mid September," deputy Emergencies Minister Faig Taghizadeh told journalists.
17 August 2006 [14:22]

Trades at BICEX

The weighted average exchange prices made up 0.8848 AZN for 1 US dollar in the Baku Interbank Currency Exchange on August 15.
17 August 2006 [14:05]

Azerbaijan's external debt beats $1.8bn

As of July 1, the external debt of Azerbaijan constituted USD 1 806.3 mn and that is to say per capita foreign debt equaled $212.9. As of July, credit agreements of $3 534.1 mn have been concluded.
17 August 2006 [11:08]

11 million barrels of oil transported over BTC

It is reported that 11 million barrels of crude oil have been transported to the Haydar Aliyev Sea Terminal in the Ceyhan district of Adana via the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) Crude Oil Pipeline which supplies the Azeri oil to the world markets.
17 August 2006 [10:24]

USACC to host U.S. Trade Mission to Azerbaijan on October 1-4

On October 1-4, 2006, the United States-Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce (USACC) will host a trade mission to the Republic of Azerbaijan for leading U.S. firms specializing in Information and Communications Technologies (ICT).
17 August 2006 [10:17]

Taxes Ministry imposed monetary penalties of $1.3mln

Taxes Ministry Operational Control Department have to date examined 45 633 various kinds of trade facilities and found serious irregularities in 12 548 of them.
17 August 2006 [09:57]

Salyan Oil gas production falls 27% in July

Salyan Oil, which is developing Kursengi-Garabaghli field, produced 22 998 000 cubic meters of gas during January-July.
17 August 2006 [09:28]

SOCAR to shut down noncommercial wells

SOCAR has developed an action plan to study the ecological situation with the onshore oilfields, SOCAR vice-president Khoshbekht Yusifzade told journalists.
16 August 2006 [22:06]

Germany to authorize loan of ?9mn and grant of ?5mn to Azerbaijan

Azerbaijani-German intergovernmental talks started in Bonn. Azerbaijan is represented at the negotiations by economic development minister Heydar Babayev.
16 August 2006 [16:04]

AIOC to stop oil's export through Baku-Novorossiysk pipeline from September

Azerbaijan International Operating Company (AIOC) will discontinue exporting oil through Baku-Novorossiysk oil pipeline from September this year, AIOC informs that the reason is that BTC has already come on line.
16 August 2006 [13:17]

Iran may deliver oil and gas to world market via Azerbaijan

Technical efficiency of delivery of Iranian oil through Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline may be considered in near future, Iranian ambassador to Azerbaijan, Afshar Suleymani said.
16 August 2006 [09:04]

Austria and Azerbaijan negotiate to develop tourism ties

Austria and Azerbaijan are having negotiations to develop relations in tourism sector, Fuad Ismayilov, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador to Austria stated.
16 August 2006 [08:38]

Schedule of T-bills issue changed

Some changes were made to the schedule of issue of T-bills by Ministry of Finance of the Azerbaijan Republic in 2006.
16 August 2006 [08:29]

Aggregate assets of banks rose by 52% in Azerbaijan

As of July 1, the aggregate assets of banks reached AZN 2 806.5mn which represents a 52% rise on the same month last year.
15 August 2006 [22:21]

Natig Aliyev: "Number of Russian oil companies are keen on BTC"

Oil production will hit 50mn tonnes per day in 2008 in Azerbaijan. The production will be 30.5 mn tonnes this year and it will reach 47 mn tonnes next year, Natig Aliyev, Industry and Energy Minister, said.
15 August 2006 [22:02]

Azerbaijani economy grew by 35.1% during January-July

Gross Domestic Product constituted AZN 8 803.5mn during January-July and this figure represents a 35.1% increase on the same period last year.
15 August 2006 [21:15]

Iran, Georgia review expansion of economic cooperation

Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister for Asia-Pacific affairs Mehdi Safari conferred in Tbilisi on Tuesday with Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Noghaideli on issues of mutual interests.
15 August 2006 [20:39]

Putin, Kocharian: "Russian-Armenian trade turnover growing"

The Russian and Armenian presidents agreed that trade between the two countries is growing and expressed their hope for good prospects in bilateral relations.
15 August 2006 [14:42]

Azerbaijan imports 10.7 m cu m of gas per day from Russia

SOCAR is currently importing about 10.7 million cubic meters of gas per day average from Russian gas company Gazeksport.
15 August 2006 [14:36]

Azerbiajn, Germany sign agreement to cooperate in creating Samur-Yalama national park

Azerbaijan's Finance Minister Samir Sharifov and German Ambassador to Baku Per Christopher Stanchina signed August 14 an agreement on financial cooperation in creating the Samur-Yalama national park in Azerbaijan.
15 August 2006 [13:35]

IBA signs loan agreement with Dutch Rabobank

International Bank of Azerbaijan (IBA) has signed a loan agreement amounting to 7.28mn EUR with Rabobank of Netherlands.
15 August 2006 [09:06]

Deals of $2.005mn concluded at BICEX August 14

The weighted average exchange price made up 0.8858 AZN/USD at trading sessions held at the Baku Interbank Currency Exchange yesterday.
15 August 2006 [09:03]

Taxes Ministry found irregularities in 316 trade facilities in Sumgait and Apsheron

Taxes Ministry Operational Control Department continued examination of cash payment and submittal of receipts to clients on August 12 in Sumgait and Apsheron district.
15 August 2006 [09:00]

Auction on placement of T-bills to be held at BSE

Auction on placement of T-bills of Finance Ministry will be held at Baku Stock Exchange August 15.
15 August 2006 [08:52]

Taxes Ministry found irregularities in 11 524 trade facilities

Taxes Ministry Operational Control Department have to date examined 40 865 various kinds of trade facilities and found serious irregularities in 11 524 of them.
15 August 2006 [08:35]

VAT registration annulled in 4343 enterprises in Azerbaijan

VAT registration has to date been annulled in 4343 enterprises in Azerbaijan since early year.
14 August 2006 [19:32]

Caspian Shipping Company negotiates with Russian Federal Agency for River and Sea Transport

Azerbaijani Caspian Sea Shipping Company negotiates with Russian Federal Agency for River and Sea Transport on permanent transit through Russian inland waters, ACSSC chairman Aydin Bashirov told journalists.
14 August 2006 [14:53]

Baku-Ceyhan pipeline faces corrosion threat

The Baku-Ceyhan oil pipeline is facing the threat of corrosion, which could bring about an ecological catastrophe in Georgia, Azerbaijan and Turkey, the Platform international ecological organisation has announced.
14 August 2006 [13:44]

Moscow Hotel up for privatisation

Azerbaijan's State Property Committee has announced an investment contest for the equity of the Moscow Hotel.
14 August 2006 [11:59]

UTair opens new flights to Baku

Russia's UTair Aviation wiil launch its first flights to Azerbaijan.
14 August 2006 [00:54]

Azeri-Georgian business forum to be held in Batumi

Georgia-Azerbaijan business forum will be held in the framework of the Georgia-Azerbaijan intergovernmental economic commission's meeting in Batumi on August 17.
14 August 2006 [00:52]

Shahdeniz project's second phase to be set

According to BP Azerbaijan, the Istiglal semi-submersible drilling rig is now spudding another appraisal well at the Shahdeniz gas field.
14 August 2006 [00:50]

BP-Azerbaijan plans to deliver 2.1 bln cu m of gaz to the state

According to press service of BP Azerbaijan, the company plans to deliver a total amount of 2.1 billion cubic meters of gas produced from the Central Azeri and West Azeri platforms to Azerbaijan until the end of this year.
13 August 2006 [14:48]

Azerbaijani businessman deprived of his land by Arkangelsk court

The land given to Azerbaijani businessman Gunduz Miiraliyev, Severodvinsk Mayor Alexander Belyayev's son-in-law caused a scandal.
13 August 2006 [02:33]

New chiefs appointed to "Bakuelectricshebeke" and "Sumgayitelectricshebeke"

Baba Rzayev has been appointed chief of "Bakuelectricshebeke" JSC and Fakhri Mammadov chief of "Sumgayitelectricshebeke" JSC, Azerbaijani Economic Development Minister Heydar Babayev told on Saturday.
13 August 2006 [02:27]

Heydar Babayev: "Barmek will be held accountable if irregularities are found out"

According to initial calculations, more than $15 million is to be invested for building electricity system of the capital Baku, Azerbaijani Economic Development Minister told journalists on Saturday.
12 August 2006 [15:04]

Azerbaijan-Georgia Intergovernmental Commission meeting's agenda announced

Azerbaijan-Georgia Intergovernmental Commission will meet in Batumi, Georgia on 16-17 August this year.
12 August 2006 [10:19]

Incomes of State Social Protection Fund rose by 16% in January-July

The incomes of the State Social protection Fund equaled AZN 322.07mln during January-July and this figure represents an AZN 44.13mln or 15.9% on the same period of last year. This shows that the income forecast was implemented by 100.9%.
12 August 2006 [10:02]

Deals of $7.44mn concluded at BICEX on August 11

The weighted average exchange price made up 0.8861 AZN/USD at trading sessions held at the Baku Interbank Currency Exchange.
12 August 2006 [09:58]

Taxes Ministry found irregularities in 10 700 trade facilities

Taxes Ministry Operational Control Department have to date examined 37 045 various kinds of trade facilities and found serious irregularities in 10 700 of them.
12 August 2006 [09:27]

AZN 2 739 000 and US$ 59 000 allocated to Assistance Fund for Azerbaijani Armed Forces

AZN 2 739 000 and US$59 000 have been allocated to the Assistance Fund for Azerbaijani Armed Forces by 7 August, Defense Ministry press secretary, Colonel Ramiz Malikov told.
12 August 2006 [09:03]

Oil exportation through Baku-Novorossiysk pipeline will decrease by 2.5% in 2006

4 mln tonnes of Azerbaijan oil will be exported through Baku-Novorossiysk pipeline this year.
12 August 2006 [08:56]

Salyan Oil gas production falls 30% in June

Salyan Oil, which is developing Kursengi-Garabaghli field, produced 20 246 000 cubic meters of gas during January-June.
12 August 2006 [08:47]

Karasu Operating Company gas production falls by 27% in June

Karasu Operating Company, which is developing onshore Mishovdagh and Kalamaddin oilfields, produced 2 195 cubic meters of gas during January-June.
11 August 2006 [22:12]

Economic growth, strategic importance predicted for Azerbaijan with oil production increase

The coveted Caucasus nation of Azerbaijan is enjoying increased oil revenues on the back of rising prices and larger production, along with some of the political advantages that come with it.
11 August 2006 [14:34]

New technical adviser to Thermo-Power station reconstruction Project

The consortium of German 'Fichtner' and Japanese 'Tepsco' have been selected as a technical adviser to the project of reconstruction of the Azerbaijan thermo-power station in Mingachevir, press-service of the Joint Stock Company Azerenergy said.
11 August 2006 [14:17]

Khachmaz faces bread shortage

Khachmaz faced bread shortage for few hours on August 9. There was a pause in bakeries because of natural gas supply cut off.
11 August 2006 [14:13]

B&BTV to be sued

Azerbaijan's National TV and Radio Council (NTRC) appealed to the local Economic Court #1 by the claim to ban B&B cable television broadcasting in Baku.
11 August 2006 [10:00]

SOCAR paid 2.5 times more

SOCAR paid AZN 413 576 000 to the State Budget during January-July. This figure is 2.5 times rise on the same period last year.
11 August 2006 [09:50]

Trades at BICEX

The weighted average exchange price made up 0.8865 AZN/USD at trading sessions held at the Baku Interbank Currency Exchange today.
11 August 2006 [09:42]

State Customs Committee chief receives new German Ambassador

State Customs Committee head Aydin Aliyev today received new German Ambassador Per Christopher Stanchina.