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BAKU, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Azerbaijan's crude oil andcondensate production for the first 11 months of 2015 fell by0.5 percent year on year to 38.3 million tonnes, a source at theState Statistics Committee said on Tuesday.
Azerbaijan's natural gas production fell to 27.09 billioncubic metres (bcm) in January to November, from 27.14 bcm a yearearlier, on lower output from state energy company SOCAR, thesource said.
Falling output at the Azeri, Chirag and Guneshli (ACG)oilfields operated by Britain's BP led the overall drop,said the source, who declined to be identified because he is notauthorised to talk to the media.
Daily oil output at the ACG oilfields, which account formost of Azerbaijan's production, fell to an average 640,000barrels per day (bpd) in the first three quarters of 2015 from655,700 bpd in the same period last year and 641,000 bpd in thefirst half of this year.
Crude oil and condensate production fell to 41.9 milliontonnes last year from 43.1 million in 2013. Natural gas outputwas 29.6 bcm in 2014.
Oil production rose to 14.2 million tonnes in the first fourmonths of 2015 from 13.6 million a year earlier.
Output started to decline in May, however, as BP suspendedoperations at one platform in the Caspian Sea, West Azeri, for22 days of planned maintenance.
BP suspended operations at another platform, Chirag, on Nov.10. Production resumed after the planned maintenance on Dec. 11.
Azerbaijan plans to produce 40.7 million tonnes of oil and30.2 bcm of gas in 2015. (Reporting by Nailia Bagirova; Writing by Margarita Antidze;Editing by Vladimir Soldatkin and David Evans)