TABLE-Germany's Jan-June oil import bill up 13.7 pct

FRANKFURT, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Germany's crude oil import bill

increased by 13.7 percent for January to June to 29.0 billion

euros ($35.8 billion) from 25.5 billion a year earlier, official

data from the BAFA foreign trade statistics office showed on

Monday.

Average border oil prices in the six months rose by 11.0

percent to 650.69 euros a tonne, BAFA said in a statement.

By volume, imports rose 2.4 percent to 44.6 million tonnes

in the first half of the year.

Some 39.7 percent of the oil came from Russia, 25.1 percent

from the British and Norwegian North Sea and 21.1 percent from

OPEC members, among others.

Syria, which is engulfed in violence, has sent no oil for

seven consecutive months. It ranked ninth among Germany's

suppliers for the full year 2011.

Here are details from BAFA for the top 10 crude oil import

sources (in '000 tonnes):

Jan/June '12 Jan/June '11 June '12

Russia 17,694 16,630 3,121

Britain 6,495 6,201 961

Norway 4,685 3,240 821

Libya 3,653 2,183 242

Nigeria 2,899 2,412 594

Kazakhstan 2,653 3,667 429

Saudi Arabia 1,120 225 288

Algeria 954 1,250 181

Azerbaijan 826 1,636 50

Egypt 812 892 45

($1 = 0.8104 euros)

(Reporting by Vera Eckert; editing by Jane Baird)

Keywords: GERMANY OIL/IMPORTS

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