Azerbaijan, Baku, Aug.7 / Trend /
About 864 tankers have been transported from Turkish port Ceyhan since launching transportation of Azerbaijani oil from oil terminal named after Heydar Aliyev via the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline, Turkish news agency Cinan said with reference to Saliha Pashaoglu, General Director, Head of management board of the Turkish State Pipeline Company BOTAS.
About 685 million barrels of oil has been transported to the world market through this pipeline this time, Pashaoglu added.
The total length of BТС is 1.768 kilometers including the 443 kilometer section running via Azerbaijan, the 249 kilometer section via Georgia and the 1.076 kilometer via Turkey. Construction of the pipeline began in April 2003 and it was filled with oil on May 18, 2005.
A total of $4bilion has been spent for the construction of BTC not including fill-up of pipeline, financial expenses and payment of the bank rates. The credit allocated for the project totaled $2.6bilion.
BTC Co. shareholders include 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%).