Russia cuts oil export to non-CIS 6.4% in 9 mths

Russia  cut  oil exports to non-CIS countries 6.4% year-on-year in January-September 2008 to 152.537 million tonnes (4.081  million  barrels  per  day),  the Fuel and Energy Central

Dispatch Directorate said according to Interfax.

Transneft  (RTS:  TRNF),  the  national  pipeline  operator, pumped 140.076 million tonnes of Russian crude to non-CIS countries in the nine months. Exports bypassing Transneft came to 12.461 million tonnes.

In  September  alone,  Transneft  carried  14.829 million tonnes of Russian crude to non-CIS countries, while exports bypassing the monopoly totaled 1.386 million tonnes.

Transneft  shipments  via  the  port of Novorossiisk came to 32.239 million  tonnes  in  the nine months, including transit, including 3.197 million tonnes in September; shipments via Tuapse - 3.451 million tonnes (382,200  tonnes), via Odesa - 6.06 million tonnes (619,300 tonnes), via

Primorsk - 55.472 million tonnes (6.333 million tonnes) and via Yuzhny - 5.783 million tonnes (490,000 tonnes).

Rosneft  (RTS:  ROSN)  exported 33.945 million tonnes of oil to the non-CIS  using  Transneft  pipelines in the nine months, including 3.997 million tonnes in September; Surgutneftegas (RTS: SNGS) - 23.718 million tonnes (2.13  million  tonnes);  TNK  (RTS:  TNKO)-BP  Holding  - 23.614 million  tonnes  (2.694  million  tonnes);  Lukoil  (RTS: LKOH) - 21.395 million  tonnes  (2.02 million tonnes); and Tatneft (RTS: TATN) - 11.848 million tonnes (1.249 million tonnes).

Companies  that are not part of vertically integrated oil companies shipped  5.607  million  tonnes  of oil abroad via Transneft in the nine months, including 682,000 tonnes in September.

Transit of oil from Kazakhstan came to 15.702 million tonnes in the nine months   (1.807    million  tonnes  in  September)  and  transit  of Azerbaijani oil to 1.137 million tonnes (160,920 tonnes).

Exports  to  the  CIS  fell 8% to 25.346 million tonnes in the nine months.  Exports  to  Belarus and Kazakhstan grew 6.7% to 15.512 million tonnes and  6.4%  to  5.251 million tonnes, respectively, but exports to Ukraine fell 43.3% to 4.583 million tonnes.