Azerbaijan, Baku, April 9 / Trend, E. Ismailov /
From January to March 2013, the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline transported 8.1 million tons of oil compared to 8.9 million tons in January-March 2012, the State Statistics Committee told Trend on Monday.
In 2012, the BTC transported 29.67 million tons of Azerbaijani oil compared to over 32.2 million tons in 2011.
As of April 1, 2013, 212.8 million tons of oil was transported since the start of the pipeline's operation.
In January-March, nearly seven million tons of oil was supplied to world markets from the Turkish port of Ceyhan, compared to 7.3 million tons in January-March 2012.
The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline transported 76.1 percent of all 10.7 million tons of oil transported by main oil pipelines of the country," the Committee said.
In January-March, the country's main oil was transported.
The BТС's total length is 1,768 kilometers including a 443-kilometre section running via Azerbaijan, a 249-kilometre section traversing Georgia and a 1076-kilometre section passing through Turkey. The pipeline's construction began in April 2003. The first oil was marketed on May 18, 2005.
The shareholders of BTC are BP (30.1 percent), AzBTC (25 percent), Chevron (8.90 percent), Statoil (8.71 percent), TRAO (6.53 percent), Eni (5 percent), Total (5 percent), Itochu (3.40 percent), Inpex (2.50 percent), Conoco Philips (2.50 percent) and Hess (2.36 percent).
In January-March this year, the South Caucasus gas pipeline (Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum) transported 962.5 million cubic meters of gas compared to 1.3 billion cubic meters in January-March 2012. The total amount of gas transported by all main pipelines of the country in January-March 2013 constitutes 5.4 billion cubic meters.
The length of Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum (South Caucasian gas pipeline) is more than 700 km. The pumping capacity is more than 20 billion cubic meters of gas per year. The gas produced from the Shah Deniz field in the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea is transported via the pipeline. The gas is delivered to Georgia and Turkey. Azerbaijan also purchases gas.