Baku, Azerbaijan, Jan. 30
By Emil Ismayilov - Trend:
Around 249.62 million barrels of oil were transported in 2013 via the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline through Turkey compared to 250.34 million barrels in 2012, the Turkish State Pipeline Company Botas said today.
The total length of the BTC pipeline is 1768 kilometres, some 443 kilometres of which runs 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 percent), AzBTC (25 percent), Chevron (8.9 percent), Statoil (8.71 percent), ТРАО (6.53 percent), Eni (5 percent), Total (5 percent), Itochu (3.40 percent), Inpex (2.5 percent), ConocoPhillips (2.50 percent) and ONGC (2.36 percent).
About 91.88 million barrels of oil were transported in 2013 via the Iraq-Turkey pipeline through Turkey compared to 145.63 million barrels in 2012.
Some 23.74 million barrels of oil were transported in 2013 via the Ceyhan-Kirikkale pipeline through Turkey compared to about 21.96 million barrels in 2012.
About 11.57 million barrels of oil were transported in 2013 via the Batman-Dordyol pipeline compared to 11.25 million barrels in 2012.
Translated by NH
Edited by SM