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Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline exports over 26 mln tonnes of oil this year

20 November 2014 13:29 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Agshin Rafigoglu – APA-Economics. BTC’s throughput capacity is currently 1.2 million b/d.

BP-Azerbaijan told APA-Economics that during the first nine months of 2014, BTC exported 199 million barrels (26.4 million tonnes) of crude oil loaded on 276 tankers at Ceyhan.

The 1,768km BTC pipeline became operational in June 2006. Since that time BTC has carried a total of about 2.03 billion barrels (272 million tonnes) of crude oil loaded on 2665 tankers and sent to world markets.

In August, BTC celebrated the loading of the 2 billionth barrel of oil at the Ceyhan terminal in Turkey.

The BTC Co. shareholders are: BP (30.1 per cent); AzBTC (25.00 per cent); Chevron (8.90 per cent); Statoil (8.71 per cent); TPAO (6.53 per cent); ENI (5.00 per cent); Total (5.00 per cent), ITOCHU (3.40 per cent); INPEX (2.50 per cent), ConocoPhillips (2.50 per cent) and ONGC (BTC) Limited (2.36 per cent).