Azerbaijan, Baku, July 14 / Trend /
About 18,2 million tons were transported via Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) in January-June compared to 18.6 million tons in January-June 2009, the State Statistics Committee said.
About 38,2 million tons were transported via BTC in 2009 compared to 32.8 million tons in 2008.
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.
BTC Co. shareholders include BP (30.1 percent); AzBTC (25 percent); Chevron (8.90 percent); Statoil Hydro (8.71 percent); ТРАО (6.53 percent); Eni (5 percent ); Total (5 percent ); Itochu (3.40 percent ); Inpex (2.50 percent); ConocoPhillips (2.50 percent) and Amerada Hess (2.36 percent).
In January-June about 2.7 billion cubic meters of gas were transported via the South Caucasus gas pipeline (Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum) compared to 2.9 billion cubic meters during the same period of last year.
In 2009, about 5.2 billion cubic meters of gas were transported via the Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum gas pipeline compared to 4.7 billion cubic meters in 2008.
The length of the pipeline Baku - Tbilisi - Erzurum pipeline (South Caucasus Pipeline) is more than 700 kilometers. Capacity is more than 20 billion cubic meters of gas a year. Gas produced at gas-condensate field Shah Deniz in Azerbaijan sector of the Caspian Sea is transported via this gas pipeline. Gas is supplied to Georgia and Turkey. Azerbaijan also buys gas.