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Over 186 mln barrels of oil transported in January-September via BTC through Turkey

Oil&Gas Materials 1 November 2013 20:52 (UTC +04:00)

Azerbaijan, Baku, Nov. 1 /Trend E. Ismayilov/

Nearly 186.19 million barrels of oil were transported in January-September 2013 via the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline through Turkey's territory, compared to 192.66 million barrels in January-September 2012, a message posted on the official website of the Turkish State Pipeline Company Botas said.

In total, some 250.34 million barrels of oil were transported in 2012 via the BTC pipeline through Turkey's territory, compared to nearly 257.15 million barrels in 2011.

The total length of the BTC pipeline is 1768 kilometres, some 443 kilometres of which run through Azerbaijan, 249 kilometres through Georgia and 1076 kilometres through Turkey.

Construction of the pipeline started in April 2003 and began flowing with oil on May 18, 2005.

Stockholders of BTC Co, established on August 1, 2002 are: BP (30.1 per cent), AzBTC (25 per cent), Chevron (8.9 per cent), Statoil (8.71 per cent), ТРАО (6.53 per cent), Eni (5 per cent), Total (5 per cent), Itochu (3.40 per cent), Inpex (2.5 per cent), ConocoPhillips (2.50 per cent) and ONGC (2.36 per cent).

Some 69.08 million barrels of oil were transported in January-September via Iraq-Turkey pipeline through Turkey, compared to 109.75 million barrels in the same period of 2012. In total, nearly 145.63 million barrels of oil were transported last year via Iraq-Turkey pipeline through Turkey's territory, as compared to about 147.2 million barrels in the same period of the last year.

Some 17.15 million barrels of oil were transported in January-September via Ceyhan-Kirikkale pipeline through Turkey's territory, versus 15.96 million barrels in January-September 2012. Some 8.57 million barrels of oil were transported in January-September via Batman-Dordyol pipeline versus 8.3 million barrels in January-September 2012.

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