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ВР Azerbaijan: BTC transports 38 mln tons of oil in 2009

Oil&Gas Materials 24 February 2010 10:43 (UTC +04:00)

Azerbaijan, Baku, Feb.23 / Trend /

About 112 million tons (over 837 million barrels) of oil were transported via the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline from 2006 to Feb. 20, 2010, ВР Azerbaijan said.

BTC transported about 38 million tons of oil (285 million barrels) in 2009. A total of 1,065 tankers have been shipped since the beginning of exports in 2006 to Feb .20 2010 in the Turkish port of Ceyhan. Capital costs in 2009 for the BTC project amounted to $92 million. The planned capital costs for 2010 on the BTC are $69 million.

Oil is transported via this pipeline from the Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli Field and condensate from the Shakh Deniz Field, operated by BP.

BTC shareholders are: BP (30.1 percent); AzBTC (25 percent); Chevron (8.90 percent); Statoil (8.71 percent), TPAO (6.53 percent); Eni (5 percent); Total (5 percent); Itochu (3.40 percent); Inpex (2.50 percent); ConocoPhillips (2.50 percent) and Hess (2.36 percent).

In 2009, the Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum gas pipeline (South Caucasus pipeline) pumped about 15 million cubic meters of gas from Shakh Deniz. The capital costs on the pipeline amounted to $7 million in 2009, and are forecast at $12.7 million in 2010.

About 31.4 million barrels of oil were transported via the western Baku-Supsa pipeline in 2009. About 10.4 million barrels of oil were transported via railway.  

The productivity of technological facilities for the reception and product processing at BP's Sangachal Terminal is 1.2 million barrels of oil and 39.5 million cubic meters of gas per day.

The highest daily exports from the terminal in 2009 were registered Sept. 23 when Sangachal processed and exported 1.112 million barrels.

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