The facilitated transport of oxygen in a liquid membrane containing [meso-alpha,alpha,alpha,alpha-tetrakis(o-pivalamidophenyl)porphyrinatocobalt(II)]-laurylimidazole (CoP) as an oxygen carrier leads to high permeability and permselectivity of oxygen against nitrogen. The oxygen permeation was properly analyzed by a dual-mode model and using the oxygen-binding constants spectroscopically determined, to give permeation parameters of the membrane such as the diffusion coefficient (D-CoP) of the CoP mobile carrier and the physical diffusion coefficient of oxygen. D-CoP was in accordance with that electrochemically determined. The facilitated permeation was represented by the product of the Cop concentration and D-CoP in the membrane solution. D-CoP decreased with solution viscosity and increased with the measured temperature. High oxygen permeability (10(-7) cm(3)(STP) cm cm(-2) s(-1) cmHg(-1)) was observed, e.g. for the membrane of the 31 wt % CoP methylanisole solution at 10 degrees C, where the facilitation factor and the oxygen/nitrogen permselectivity were over 20 and 40, respectively.