Business
08 May 2009 [17:23]
Canceling exemption of wheat import from the value added tax that took place in 2007 with a prolongation of a year, will not lead to rise in oil prices, the Economic Development Ministry said.
08 May 2009 [16:33]
Azerbaijan International Operating Company (AIOC), consortium operated by BP, plans on reducing associated gas volumes extracted at Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli (ACG) in Azerbaijan’s sector of the Caspian that are to be handed over to State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR).
08 May 2009 [15:13]
After finishing designing, Chirag oil project (COP) which envisages
increasing oil production in the Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli (ACG) field may be launched in late 2009, BP (operator of the ACG) said on May 8.
08 May 2009 [15:11]
08 May 2009 [14:53]
Within official visit of Greek Deputy Foreign Minister Miltiadis Varvitsiotis, Azerbaijan-Greece Business Forum is expected to be held in Baku.
08 May 2009 [09:14]
Azerbaijan International Operating Company (AIOC), a consortium led by BP Azerbaijan, has obtained growth of indicator on daily oil production fro contract offshore oilfield block Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli (ACG) in Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea.
08 May 2009 [08:58]
Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev has today met Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende.
07 May 2009 [16:36]
At present Azerbaijan provides population's need in food grain via local production by 95 percent, Azerbaijani Agriculture Minister Ismat Abbasov said on May 7.
07 May 2009 [16:24]
Privileges will be granted to owners of illegal buildings during auctions and competitions to support lands of municipalities in Azerbaijan, Head of the Azerbaijani State Committee for Land and Cartography Garib Mammadov said on May 7.
07 May 2009 [15:50]
Annual demand of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) in asphalt is around one million square meters, the company said.
07 May 2009 [14:36]
The Azerbaijan State Committee on Securities analyzed the country's
securities market and revealed key directions on reforms and further
actions, Chairman of the Azerbaijan State Committee on Securities (SCS) Rufat Aslanli said.
07 May 2009 [14:32]
No official appeal has been made to the Azerbaijani Agricultural Ministry from Mexico on explanation grounds for limits on pork import from this country, Agriculture Minister Ismat Abasov said.
07 May 2009 [12:46]
The security rules in the Baku subway have always been observed seriously. It will be so in future too”, chief of the Baku subway office Tagi Ahmadov told journalists, APA reports.
07 May 2009 [09:59]
The Azerbaijani Central Bank does not plan to issue new banknotes due to change of its name despite its old name - Azerbaycan Milli Banki (National Bank of Azerbaijan) was indicated at banknotes, the Central Bank's board chairman Elman Rustamov said on May 6.
07 May 2009 [09:26]
The Baku-Kars-Baku flight which was suspended in December due to a winter season will be resumed on May 25, the Turkish Cihan news agency reported, citing the statement by Azerbaijan's Consul-General in Kars (Turkey) Hasan Sultanoglu.
06 May 2009 [15:50]
06 May 2009 [15:21]
06 May 2009 [14:48]
Sources in Mexico state that they wrote a letter to the World Trade Organization (WTO) demanding an explanation from the countries that have imposed restrictions on Mexican imports of pork because of flu (now known as H1N1).
06 May 2009 [13:23]
06 May 2009 [12:35]
Azneft (the structure of SOCAR oil and gas) has launched a new well at Neft Dashlary, Interfax-Azerbaijan, with reference to the website of SOCAR.
06 May 2009 [11:45]
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko held a meeting on practical implementation of the Euro-Asian Oil Transport Corridor (EAOTC) on the base of Odessa-Brody pipeline, the Ukrainian President's official Website said.
06 May 2009 [11:25]
Saltuk Duzyol, General Director of Turkish Botas Company, said in his interview with ANS that this issue would be agreet in near future satisfying interests of both parties.
05 May 2009 [17:27]
Realization of the decisions taken at the 4 December TRACECA anniversary conference held in Baku on renewal of Organisation’s institutes is underway.
05 May 2009 [15:31]
Belarus and Azerbaijan need to enhance cooperation, BELTA news agency quoted Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko as saying at a meeting with Azerbaijani First Deputy Prime Minister Yagub Eyyubov.
05 May 2009 [15:25]
Azerbaijani delegation headed by Finance Minister Samir Sharifov is
attending the 42nd meeting of managers of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in Denpasar, Indonesia.
05 May 2009 [15:18]
05 May 2009 [12:14]
Conference “Emission to the atmosphere and management of gases causing warming related to the global climate change in Azerbaijan” is taking placed in Baku today.
05 May 2009 [10:34]
Scientists of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan (AMEA) have taken part in 4th international congress “Fuel Bioethanol - 2009, devoted to problems of production of bioethanol from non-product raw material in Moscow.
05 May 2009 [10:28]
State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) is ongoing the process of reduction of associated gas flaring.
05 May 2009 [09:42]
Department of Marketing & Economic Operations (State Oil Company of Azerbaijan; SOCAR) has reported of price growth on all petroleum products exported in April 2009.
05 May 2009 [09:11]
100th tanker has sailed away from SOCAR-owned Kulevi Terminal in Georgia.
05 May 2009 [09:09]
News on rising gas prices to Turkey which caused considerable agitation in the country has not been confirmed yet.
04 May 2009 [17:16]
The National Entrepreneurship Support Fund under the Ministry of Economic Development (MED) of Azerbaijan is expanding international partnership.
04 May 2009 [15:29]
Global warming caused melting of glaciers in the northern region of the country. Specialists consider that about 50 percent of the glaciers melted in Guba within a century.
04 May 2009 [15:18]
The Japanese Financial Corporation (since 1 October 2008 it has included the Japanese International Co-operation Agency (JICA) and the Japanese Bank for International Co-operation (JBIC)) has discussed with Azerbaijan a draft loan agreement on a watersupply project.
04 May 2009 [12:59]
In January-April, the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR)
exported roughly 834,000 tons of oil via Baku-Novorossiysk pipeline compared to over 408,000 tons in the same period in 2008, SOCAR said.
04 May 2009 [12:30]
A Boeing-777-300 ER passenger jet en route from Delhi to London made an emergency landing at Heydar Aliyev International Airport in Baku, said Maharram Safarli, Press Secretary of Azerbaijan Airlines (AzAL).
04 May 2009 [12:26]
Azerbaijani, Turkish and Georgian transport ministers will meet in Istanbul on May 9 as a part of the construction of the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway, Azerbaijani Transport Ministry said.
04 May 2009 [11:14]
Representatives of Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE) in the person of ISE chairman Huseyn Erkan and securities market director Morat Bolat, and general director of Turkish Derivatives Exchange (TurkDEX) Chetin Ali Domnez visited the Baku Interbank Currency Exchange (BBVB).
04 May 2009 [10:48]
Azerbaijan Airlines (AzAL) will operate a direct flight between Baku and Antalya from mid-June.
04 May 2009 [09:00]
The gas agreement between Russia and Azerbaijan does not call implementation of the Nabucco gas pipeline project into question, Turkish Ambassador to Azerbaijan Hulusi Kilic said on May 2.
02 May 2009 [11:24]
PU Bakgaz (distribution and sale of gas in Baku) supplies Baku's gas system with daily gas supply amounting 6.7 million cubic meters compared to 8 million cubic meters of average daily gas supply in March, A source close to supplies in PU said on May 1.
02 May 2009 [11:14]
OPEC forecasts that the Azerbaijani oil shipment will be increased by 70,000 barrels and reach 980,000 barrel daily in 2009.
02 May 2009 [09:29]
02 May 2009 [08:59]
01 May 2009 [12:43]
International organizations recognize Azerbaijan's economy stable and durable, head of the Strategic Research Centre at the Azerbaijani Presidential Administration said.
01 May 2009 [10:40]
The idea of development of the global financial and economic crisis in accordance with the theses described by Karl Marx in his work “Capital” has found support in Azerbaijan.
01 May 2009 [09:21]
Yesterday, the Confederation of Entrepreneurs of Azerbaijan (ASK) held its second congress, which considered the development and support of business, realization of the rights of ASK as a representative of country's employers.
01 May 2009 [09:11]
30 April 2009 [08:51]
Azerbaijan and Israel will make efforts to increase trade turnover, which in January-March 2009 reached $180 million, said the Israeli Ambassador to Azerbaijan Arthur Lenk on April 29.
29 April 2009 [13:42]
Gen. Duncan J. McNabb, Commander of the U.S. Transportation Command, is visiting Azerbaijan.
29 April 2009 [13:20]
Turkey and Azerbaijan has coordinated terms of gas sold to Turkey from the Shah Deniz gas field by 70 percent, Turkish Energy Minister Hilmi Gular said.
29 April 2009 [12:40]
Day.Az interview with economic expert Vagif Sharifov.
29 April 2009 [12:12]
Environment minister Huseyn Bagirov of Azerbaijan received yesterday Joseph Weinstock, chief environment specialist of the Asian Development Bank’s Regional Department.
29 April 2009 [12:08]
State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) has begun works on waste metal collection after offshore oil and gas production.
29 April 2009 [11:56]
Qatar plans to study Azerbaijan's experience on pension insurance
system, Qatari ambassador to Azerbaijan Mubarek bin Fahd Jasim
Al-Thani said during his meeting with Azerbaijan Social Protection
Fund Head Salim Muslumov.
28 April 2009 [16:03]
Azerbaijan has today imposed a ban on the import of animal derived products from Europe, said spokesman for the State Veterinary Service under the Azerbaijan Agricultural Ministry Yolchu Khanveli.
28 April 2009 [15:02]
Labor inspection under the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of
Azerbaijani Population launched joint project with Netherlands
international consultative group "TNO - quality of life", inspection
head Nabi Shukurlu said at the conference dedicated to labor
protection day - April 28.
28 April 2009 [14:52]
Prospects of Azerbaijan-Cuba economic cooperation will be discussed
during Cuba's governmental delegation's visit to Azerbaijan in
mid-May.
28 April 2009 [14:40]
The Azerbaijani Ministry of Taxes and the Estonian Taxes and Customs Board signed the memorandum on cooperation. The document was signed by Azerbaijani Minister of Taxes Fazil Mammadov and director general of the Estonian Taxes and Customs Board Enrico Aav in Baku.
28 April 2009 [14:04]
Azerbaijan’s Minister of Economic Development held the meeting on implementation of presidential instructions given at the governmental session devoted to the results of country’s socio-economic development in the first quarter 2009.
28 April 2009 [13:55]
28 April 2009 [12:22]
About 120,000 barrels of oil is transported via Azerbaijan per day, 40,000 barrels of which accounts for Tengia field of Kazakhstan, SOCAR Marketing and Economic Operations Department Head Nuru Guliyev said at a third Caspian Oil and Gas and Trade and Transport conference in Baku.
28 April 2009 [12:12]
The Azerbaijan State Social Protection Fund (SSPF) delegation has completed its five-day visit to Germany.
28 April 2009 [12:10]
Iran has offered the Caspian states to transport part of their crude oil exports to the world markets through the Indian Ocean via a pipeline linking Iranian Ports of Neka to Jask, Jaleel Salari, Iranian Oil Company (NICO) corporate planning officer, told APA-ECONOMICS.
28 April 2009 [11:35]
The Ministry of Environment & Natural Resources of Azerbaijan has new prospective areas in the course of geological prospecting and survey works nearby southern slope of the Greater Caucasus, in the Minor Caucasus and Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic.
28 April 2009 [11:26]
The issue of gas transit via Turkey and fuel supply to Europe must be solved as a part of the Shah Deniz-2, Statoil Hydro Azerbaijan Vice President for Gas Olav Skalmeras said.
28 April 2009 [10:57]
On April 27, Azerbaijan imposed ban on import of cattle-breeding products from the entire American continent, Azerbaijani Agricultural Ministry Veterinary Service spokesperson Yolchu Khanvali said.
28 April 2009 [08:57]
Turnover of swap deals period concluded at the Baku Interbank Currency Exchange (BBVB) keeps on growing.
27 April 2009 [14:55]
The revenues of the State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan (SOFAZ) hit 13.492
billion manat and expenditures - 1,398,700,000 manat in the first
quarter of 2009, SOFAZ executive director Shahmar Movsumov said in a
press conference.
27 April 2009 [14:38]
WB has agreed with the Azerbaijani government about changes in the
loan agreement on Azerbaijani railroad transit and trade.
27 April 2009 [14:27]
27 April 2009 [14:13]
27 April 2009 [14:06]
The largest oil and gas exhibition and conference in the Caspian region, ‘Caspian Oil and Gas Exhibition Incorporating Refining and Petrochemicals’ will take place from 2nd to 5th June in the Azerbaijani capital, Baku.
27 April 2009 [13:45]
The head office of “MuganBank” OJSC has moved to a new building, according to Day.Az.
Turkish Speaker urges revival of regional cooperation
“Trump Mobile T1” smartphone and mobile operator officially launched in US
President Ilham Aliyev receives CEO of bp
Baku to host dance events of year-WADF World Championships & World Cups 2025
Azerbaijan, Serbia sign memorandum to strengthen human rights cooperation
The Iranian factor in Hormuz - is there a problem?
President Aliyev urges respect for Azerbaijani right of return at Human Rights Symposium