BTC transports 2.4 million tons of Azerbaijani oil
In August, 2,455,065 tons of Azerbaijani oil was transported via the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan main export pipeline.
Some 19,897,616 tons of oil were transported through this pipeline during January-August 2013, AzerTag state news agency reported.
Azerbaijan's state energy company SOCAR reported that since the start-up the pipeline has shipped 223,564,270 million tons of crude.
The total length of the BТС pipeline, which carries crude oil from the Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli oil fields in the Caspian Sea to the Turkish Mediterranean coast, is 1,768 kilometers, including the 443 kilometer section running via Azerbaijan, the 249 kilometer section via Georgia and 1,076 kilometers via Turkey.