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SOCAR exported 407 102 tons of crude through Baku-Supsa Pipeline

08 January 2009 12:59 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Rashad Suleymanov â€“ APA-Economics. State Oil Company of Azerbaijan exported 407 101.7 tons of crude oil through Baku-Supsa Pipeline during 2008.
SOCAR didnâ€™t export crude oil via this pipeline in 2007 after the pipeline was shut down for repair in September, 2006. However, AIOC pumped 49 174.6 tons in 2007.
SOCAR resumed exporting oil via this route in August, 2008 but Russia-Georgia hostilities shut the pipeline.
Baku-Supsa Pipeline delivers crude oil from Azerbaijan to the Black Sea port of Supsa in Georgia.
The capacity of the pipeline is about 7.5 million tons per annum.
Since its inception in 1999, Baku-Supsa Pipeline also known as the Western Route Export Pipeline transported 50 million tons of oil until the end of 2005 and 5.6 million tons was pumped in ten months of 2006. The pipeline has been shut down since then and 100 000 tons of oil was pumped into the pipeline in August this year.
It is an 837 kilometers (530mm pipe) long oil pipeline, which runs from the Sangachal Terminal near Baku to the Supsa terminal in Georgia.
Essentially, the Baku-Supsa pipeline is a refurbished Soviet era pipeline with several newly built sections. It has six pumping stations and two pressure reduction stations in western Georgia. The four storage tanks at the Supsa terminal have a total capacity of 160,000 cubic meters. The capacity of the pipeline is 145,000 barrel per day (bbl/d) with proposed upgrades to between 300,000 bbl/d to 600,000 bbl/d.