Business
27 April 2009 [13:36]
Greek Deputy Foreign Minister Miltiadis Varvitsiotis will visit Baku
on May 12-13. The meeting will focus on energy, economic and political
cooperation, the Greek embassy in Baku said.
27 April 2009 [13:30]
Reports of international experts on tourism development in Azerbaijan were heard at the international conference on prospects of eco-tourism in Azerbaijan.
27 April 2009 [12:15]
The second stage of development of the Shah Deniz gas-condensate field costs roughly $16-20 billion, Azerbaijani Industry and Energy Minister Natig Aliyev said at the third Caspian oil and gas trade-transport conference in Baku on April 27.
27 April 2009 [12:11]
27 April 2009 [11:06]
Azerbaijan's contemporary energy policy is an important party of the country's foreign and domestic policy.
27 April 2009 [10:56]
“The construction of airport in Igdir is a very important issue for the province”, Governor Saim Saffet Karahisarli told APA.
27 April 2009 [10:31]
Presentation entitled Caspian Gas at the Crossroads was made at the
Columbia University's Center for Energy.
27 April 2009 [10:03]
27 April 2009 [09:56]
The Georgian-Azerbaijani business forum planned to be held in Tbilisi on April 27-29 has been postponed.
25 April 2009 [11:13]
President of Azerbaijan Gurbangulu Berdimukhamedov received in Ashkhabat SOCAR Rovnag Abdullayev Friday, reports Novosti-Azerbaijan with reference to the press service for SOCAR.
25 April 2009 [08:48]
25 April 2009 [08:42]
Milli Mejlis will make amendments and annexes to the laws on the State Budeget in 2009.
24 April 2009 [15:40]
24 April 2009 [14:13]
Nar Mobile has concluded the next GPRS roaming agreements with a number of countries of the world.
24 April 2009 [14:10]
24 April 2009 [13:21]
23 April 2009 [17:45]
In March 2009, prices on consumer goods and tariffs on services decreased by 0.7 percent from February 2009 and increased by 8.3 percent from March 2008, Azerbaijan State Statistics Committee said on Apr. 23 19.
23 April 2009 [17:30]
Azerbaijan produced around 11.4 million tons of oil and condensate in January-March, a 3.1-percent decrease from the same period in 2008, the State Statistics Committee said.
23 April 2009 [17:10]
In January-March 2009, the IT production and IT services hit 208.5 million manat (increase 3.9 percent), the State Statistics Committee of Azerbaijan reported.
23 April 2009 [17:05]
The State Oil Company of the Azerbaijani Republic (SOCAR) will start exploratory drilling on a perspective gas condensate Umid field in the Azerbaijani section of the Caspian Sea in May, a source from SOCAR said.
23 April 2009 [17:01]
The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) will put a new platform (No. 2415) into exploitation in the giant offshore Neft Dashlari field in the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian sea soon, the company said.
23 April 2009 [15:54]
Chairman of the Central Bank of Azerbaijan (CBA) Elman Rustamov and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Director on Financial Institutes and Private Stakes Nick Tesseyman discussed importance and perspectives of cooperation, the CBA said.
23 April 2009 [14:16]
A Memorandum on cooperation in transport between Azerbaijan and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) envisages bilateral cooperation between the two countries in motor, air and railway transport, a source at the Azerbaijani Transport Ministry said on April 23.
23 April 2009 [14:11]
23 April 2009 [14:03]
23 April 2009 [13:56]
On Apr. 22 the price of AZERI LT CIF Augusta was $49.08 per barrel, or $0.35 per barrel down, compared to the previous day's price, according to the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR), which has produced Light Oil since 1997.
23 April 2009 [09:18]
New period of economic development began in Azerbaijan in 2009, AzTV television channel quoted Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev as saying at the Cabinet of Ministers meeting on results of socio-economic development in Q1 of 2009.
22 April 2009 [17:27]
A World Bank mission on the Azerbaijan real estate registration project has arrived in Baku.
22 April 2009 [15:51]
Suspension of night flights in the Heydar Aliyev International Airport will not affect the cost of tickets or number of passengers, the Azerbaijan Airline Company (AZAL) first Deputy President Sabir Ilyasov said.
22 April 2009 [14:48]
The State Oil Company of the Azerbaijani Republic (SOCAR) explores soil stability in sea depth in perspective gas condensate areas of Umid and Babek fields, a source from SOCAR said.
22 April 2009 [14:43]
22 April 2009 [14:29]
The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) will finish constructing a new compressor station in Guneshli field in mid-summer 2009, SOCAR Vice President on Ecology Mukhtar Babayev said on April 22.
22 April 2009 [14:18]
Russian Gas Association President Valery Yazev spoke with Trend Capital in an exclusive interview.
22 April 2009 [14:14]
The Azerbaijan National Depositary Center (NDC) signed three agreements to preserve securities and register stakes of joint-stock companies in March, the center reported on April 22.
22 April 2009 [11:34]
The summit on "Natiral gas of European countries: security and cooperation" will be held in Sophia (Bulgaria) on April 24-25 of this year, said sources in the Ministry of Industry and Energy, according to Novosti-Azerbaijan.
21 April 2009 [16:57]
A delegation led by Nick Tesseiman, head of the EBRD financial departments, will arrive in Baku on April 22, according to AzerTac.
21 April 2009 [13:56]
The Azerbaijan State Real Estate Register Service finishes developing a methodology to assess real estate, state service head Arif Garashov said on April 21.
21 April 2009 [09:49]
The World Bank (WB) has determined a highway project in Azerbaijan, to which bank will invest privileged credit in the sum of $63 million in 2009, the WB Baku office said.
21 April 2009 [09:37]
The conference of heads of law enforcement agencies of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) participating countries started in Baku on April 21.
21 April 2009 [09:30]
The government will take due steps if cheap agricultural products imported to Azerbaijan from other countries have a negative impact on domestic production, said Azerbaijani Minister of Agriculture Ismet Abbasov.
20 April 2009 [16:33]
Our regional program has proven once again that the consequences of global crisis are not threatening to Azerbaijan's economy, said Hadi Recebli, chairman of the committee of social policy of Milli Medjlis.
20 April 2009 [15:46]
18 April 2009 [12:22]
18 April 2009 [11:40]
Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) analysts say despite its commercial challenges, the Nabucco pipeline could overcome the problems or be built for political reasons based on the perceived demands of European energy security.
18 April 2009 [11:31]
Toshiba Japanese firm launched negotiations with Delta Telecom local telecommunication company to deliver its new notebooks supporting WiMAX mobile network on the Azerbaijani market, manager on Toshiba Europe partners Igor Zhitski said on April 17.
17 April 2009 [12:26]
Latvian businessmen offered joint dairy production to Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan Export and Investment Promotion Fund (AZPROMO) President Rahim Huseynov said at the Azerbaijani-Latvian business-forum on April 17.
17 April 2009 [11:58]
In 2008, the export from Azerbaijan to Latvia reached 30 percent, and from Latvia to Azerbaijan increased twice, Latvian Foreign Minister Maris Riekstins said at the Azerbaijani-Latvian business-forum in Baku.
17 April 2009 [11:49]
16 April 2009 [12:14]
A total of 1 billion barrels of Azeri Light was produced from the Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli (ACG) field of the Caspian section, which is developing by the Azerbaijan International Operation Company (AIOC) under BP's operator.
16 April 2009 [10:25]
16 April 2009 [10:17]
16 April 2009 [10:10]
Kazakhstan expects the decision of Azerbaijan on the price of grain, said the managing director on commercial affairs of Food Contract Corporation, Daulet Uvashev.
15 April 2009 [15:54]
EBRD business group director on Southern and Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia Olivier Decamp will pay one-day visit to Baku today to confirm EBRD's long-term cooperation policy to the Azerbaijani government.
15 April 2009 [11:28]
Azneft (SOCAR structure on oil and gas production) produced 1.904,085,000 cubic meters of gas, which is 1.5% growth over 2009, sources in SOCAR report, according to Interfax-Azerbaijan.
15 April 2009 [09:30]
A seminar on improvement of the state of the city transport is held in Baku under support of the World Bank, according to the WB Baku representative, Novosti-Azerbaijan reports.
15 April 2009 [09:17]
The speech of President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev during the first stone laying ceremony to build the Garadagh cement plant.
14 April 2009 [17:14]
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has approved signing of a loan agreement with the World Bank on the project on assistance to transit via railway and trade worth $673.8 million, World Bank Baku office head Gregory Jedrzejczaksaid.
14 April 2009 [16:15]
The Azerbaijani parliament has ratified a bill on "Special economic zones" in the third reading on April 14.
14 April 2009 [11:54]
14 April 2009 [11:43]
Tbilisi will host Azerbaijani-Georgian business forum later this year, said sources in the Export and Investment Promotion Foundation of Azerbaijan under the Ministry of Economic Development, according to Novosti-Azerbaijan.
14 April 2009 [10:37]
1021 foreigners received an individual permission for working in Azerbaijan in January-March of 2009, said spokesman for the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of population Elnur Kalantarov.
13 April 2009 [14:24]
13 April 2009 [12:36]
6 carriages came off rails on Hajiqabul railway station at 12:30 yesterday, according to the press service for the Interior Ministry of Azerbaijan.
13 April 2009 [09:33]
Turkey's Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Hilmi Guler announced that Turkey and Azerbaijan has no problems, related to natural resources, reports Turkish Cihan news agency.
13 April 2009 [09:05]
New pipeline routes for energy sources can give a 'strong impetus' to the economies of the CIS member states including producer countries, buyer and transit countries, local media quoted Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov as saying.
11 April 2009 [11:39]
10 April 2009 [16:39]
In March of 2009 Azerbaijani state received 1,080,690,073 cubic meters of natural gas.
10 April 2009 [13:26]
10 April 2009 [12:35]
The reduction in prices was observed in Azerbaijan in March as compared to February, while deflation through a month made 0.7%, said chairman of the State Statistical Committee Arif Veliyev at a press conference today.
10 April 2009 [11:31]
Since the very start we have been too conservative about investments into securities, said chairman of the IBA-Moscow board Fuad Abdullayev in his interview to Day.Az, speaking about the interest of IBA-Moscow in investment to securities.
09 April 2009 [16:22]
The second session of the National Confederation of Entrepreneurs (Employers) of Azerbaijan will be held in Baku April 31.
09 April 2009 [14:17]
President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko has arrived on a two day official visit to Azerbaijan, according to the press service for the Ukrainian embassy to Azerbaijan.
09 April 2009 [13:09]
The Azerbaijan Finances Ministry is for cut in direct tax rates. Along with profit tax they propose to reduce maximal income tax rate, which is currently 35 percent, Income Tax Policy Department Director Jamil Alizade said on Apr. 8.
09 April 2009 [11:53]
Azerbaijan will have surplus of 1,000 megawatt-power by late 2009, Azerenergy Joint Stock Company (JSC) (electricity producer in Azerbaijan) Vice President Marlen Asgarov told Trend Capital.
09 April 2009 [09:22]
In March of 2009 the BTC pipeline transported 3.1 mln tons of Azeri oil.
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