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Some 2360 tankers sail from Ceyhan oil terminal

Oil&Gas Materials 2 December 2013 15:19 (UTC +04:00)

Baku, Azerbaijan, Dec.2
by Emil Ismayilov - Trend:

Around 1.82 billion barrels of oil was shipped from June 2, 2006 up till now from the Ceyhan oil terminal by Turkish Botas International Limited (BIL), compared to 1.8 billion as of Nov.1, BIL said today.

BIL has been engaged in the utilisation of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline over Turkey since 2001.

Some 2360 oil tankers were shipped from Ceyhan terminal during the reported period compared to around 2330 as of Nov.1, the report said.

The total length of the pipeline BTC is 1768 kilometres of which 443 kilometres goes through Azerbaijan, 249 kilometres through the territory of Georgia and 1076 through the territory of Turkey.

Construction of the pipeline started in April 2003 and began flowing with oil on May 18 2005.

Stockholders of BTC Co established on August 1, 2002 are BP (30.1 percent), AzBTC (25 percent), Chevron (8.9 percent), Statoil (8.71 percent), ТРАО (6.53 percent), Eni (five percent), Total (five percent), Itochu (3.40 percent), Inpex (2.5 percent), ConocoPhillips (2.50 percent) and ONGC (2.36 percent).

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