Export volumes were down 6%

Russian oil export revenues in January 2000 rose 150% year-on-year to $1.6222 billion, an increase of $964.9 million compared with the same month a year earlier, a customs agency insider told Interfax news agency. Export volumes were down 6% to 9.875 million tonnes, 642,000 tonnes less than a year earlier. Russia exported 8.232 million tonnes of oil worth $1.36309 billion to customers outside the CIS. It exported 100,000 tonnes worth $4.37 million to Kazakhstan. Russia delivered the most crude to Germany (1.739 million tonnes) and Poland (1.499 million tonnes). Russia exported 123.9 million tonnes of oil worth $13.333 billion in 1999.