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Turkmenistan increases oil transport via Baku-Ceyhan pipeline by 39%

20 June 2012 11:34 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Nijat Mustafayev â€“ APA-Economics. In January-May, 2012, 18.9 mln tons of oil were transported via Azerbaijanâ€™s main pipelines, down 5.5% from year earlier.

State Statistical Committee says 76.5% of transportation was realized via Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) and 14.4 mln tons of oil were transported via this pipeline, down 5.2% in comparison to a year earlier: â€œDuring this period, 1,384,700 tons of Turkmen oil were transported via BTC, up 38.5% from year earlierâ€.

Along with this, 8.7 bcm of gas were transported via Azerbaijan main gas pipelines, up 3% from previous year: â€œ1/5 part of transported gas was implemented via Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum South Caucasus pipeline and 1.8 bcm of gas were transported via this pipelineâ€.