Kazakhstan oil export rose by 12% in January-November 2001

/Almaty bureau REUTERS, Jan 15, 02/ - REUTERS informs, with the reference to the Statistics Agency of Kazakhstan, that oil and gas condensate exports grew by 12% in January-November of 2001 compared to similar period of 2000, at 29.366m tons, including 8.075m tons to CIS countries. Total value of the oil and gas condensate export increased by 1.0% during January-November, up to $3.980bn. For the whole year 2001 Kazakhstan extracted 39.7m tons of oil and gas condensate in comparison with 35.3m tons in previous year. Minerals accounted for 59% of exports of Kazakhstan in January-November 2001. As the Statistics agency informs, total Kazakhstan exports decreased by 3% in January-November of 2001 against previous period and reached $7,975.6m. Trade balance surplus equaled $2,188.2m. Table below shows main items of Kazakhstan exports in kind and in monetary terms against similar period of last year. ------------------------------------------------------------- January-November January-November 2001/00 2001/00 ---------------- ---------------- (th. tons) (%) ($ m) (%) ------------------------- ----------- --- --------- ----- Grain and cereals 2,484.6 -46 265.3 -37 Iron ore 7,360.9 +38 84.5 +65 Coal 24,939.4 +7 205.6 +33 Oil and gas-condensate 29,365.5 +12 3,980.2 +1 Oil products 1,428.4 +46 125.8 +31 Ferroalloys 747.9 -4 288.2 +8 Refined copper and alloys 363.2 +2 561.4 -7 Raw zinc 214.2 +2 145.4 -19 Raw aluminum 43.9 -41 33.8 -37 Lead 118.4 -17 49.2 -16 ------------------------------------------------------------- Main export partners of Kazakhstan during 11 months of year 2001 were Russia (20.3% of exports), Bermuda islands (14.8%) and Italy (11.1%).