Over 33m tons of oil exported via BTC this year
33.4 million tons of Azerbaijani oil were pumped in
January-November into the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) main export
pipeline, which transports Azerbaijan’s crude to world markets
through Georgia and Turkey. The volume of transported crude made up
2.9m tons in November alone, according to the state oil company
SOCAR.
As of December 1, 2009, a total of 103.7m tons of oil have been pumped through the BTC pipeline.
Additionally, 188,700 tons of Kazakhstan’s oil were pumped via the conduit in November. A total of 1.8m tons of the Central Asian state’s crude were transported in January-November.
The BP-operated BTC pipeline, which began exporting crude in 2006, pumps oil being extracted from Azerbaijan’s major Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli fields in the Caspian Sea.*
As of December 1, 2009, a total of 103.7m tons of oil have been pumped through the BTC pipeline.
Additionally, 188,700 tons of Kazakhstan’s oil were pumped via the conduit in November. A total of 1.8m tons of the Central Asian state’s crude were transported in January-November.
The BP-operated BTC pipeline, which began exporting crude in 2006, pumps oil being extracted from Azerbaijan’s major Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli fields in the Caspian Sea.*
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