Baku, Azerbaijan, Sept. 1
By Maksim Tsurkov - Trend:
Turkish Botas International Limited (BIL) company has shipped 2,997 tankers from the Ceyhan oil terminal from June 2, 2006 till Sept. 1, 2015, BIL said.
BIL has been operating the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline on Turkey's territory since 2001.
During the reporting period, 2,277 billion barrels of oil were shipped from the terminal, the statement said.
The total length of the BТС is 1,768 kilometers, including a 443 kilometer-long section running through Azerbaijan, a 249-kilometer long section in Georgia and a 1,076-kilometer long section in Turkey. The construction of the pipeline started in April 2003. It was filled with oil on May 18, 2005.
BTC Co. shareholders are: BP (30.1 percent), AzBTC (25 percent), Chevron (8.9 percent), Statoil (8.71 percent), ТРАО (6.53 percent), Eni (5 percent), Total (5 percent), Itochu (3.4 percent), Inpex (2.5 percent), ConocoPhillips (2.5 percent) and ONGC (2.36 percent).
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