Azerbaijan, Baku, 2 September/ Trend , corr S. Aliyev/ At the moment the oil export through Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline suspended because of fire in the pipeline has been fully stabilized and the same volume of oil is being transported (over 850,000 barrels a day) as before, BP Azerbaijan said.
Alongside with export, the oil extraction in Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli fields which is being exported through this pipeline has already been stabilized.
At evening of 5 August a blast took place at the section of BTC running through Turkish province of Erzincan which caused a fire in the pump 30 which was later extinguished.
The total length of BТС is 1.768km, including the 443km section running via Azerbaijan, the 249km section via Georgia and the 1.076km via Turkey. Construction of the pipeline was commenced in April 2003 and it was filled with oil on 18 May 2005.
A total of $4bln has been spent for the construction of BTC 1,768km pipeline, not including the fulfilment of the pipeline, financial expenses and payment of the bank rates. The credit allocated for the project totalled $2.6bln.
BTC Company Shareholders includes: BP (30.1%); AzBTC (25%); Chevron (8.90%); Statoil Hydro (8.71%); ТРАО (6.53%); Eni (5%); Total (5%); Itochu (3.40%); Inpex (2.50%); ConocoPhillips (2.50%) and Amerada Hess (2.36%).
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