Azerbaijan, Baku, 28 April / Trend / "From January to March, pipelines and railway exported some 9.2mln tons from Azerbaijan," Azerbaijan State Statistical Committee reported.
From Jan-March, BTC exported 8.3mln tons of oil. The BP-operated BTC is used for the transportation of the light oil produced from the Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli (ACG) fields. Only two foreign participants in the project of the ACG development - the US companies ExxonMobil and Devon - do not deliver their oil via BTC. These companies were not the investors in the BTC construction and sell their oil via the Georgian port of Batumi, by the railway.
From Jan-March, the export of oil via the Baku-Novorossiysk pipeline comprised 249,200 tons. This route mainly transports the SOCAR oil produced from the fields funded by themselves, as well as crude lifted by onshore joint ventures and operating companies with the foreign capital.
The committee said that during this period oil was not pumped via the BP-operated Baku-Supsa pipeline due to ongoing repairs. The oil export via this route was ceased at the end of 2006 and is expected to be resumed in May. The operator is currently involved in resolving technical problems found in this pipeline. Before suspension, the pipeline was pumping light oil from the ACG fields.
From Jan to March, 647,000 tons of oil was transported by the railways. Along with the light oil produced by ExxonMobil and Devon from the ACG, transit oil, transported from Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan via Azerbaijan, is also delivered by railway to the Georgian Black Sea ports.