For the first seven months of this year, crude oil output fell 11.3 percent from a year earlier to 7.16 million tonnes, the General Statistics Office (GSO) said in a statement.

The country exported 444,000 tonnes of crude oil in July, down 14.7 percent from a year earlier, the GSO said.

Crude oil exports in the January-July period fell 46.4 percent from a year earlier to 2.33 million tonnes, it said.

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