Baku, Azerbaijan, March 2
By Emil Ismayilov - Trend:
Around 21.87 million barrels of oil were transported in January 2014 via the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline through Turkey compared to 20.79 million barrels in January 2013, according to the Turkish State Pipeline Company Botas.
Around 249.62 million barrels of oil were transported via BTC through Turkey in 2013 compared to 250.34 million barrels in 2012.
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 5.97 million barrels of oil were transported in January via the Iraq-Turkey pipeline through Turkey compared to 7.85 million barrels in January 2013.
Some 91.88 million barrels were transported via the pipeline in 2013 compared to 145.63 million barrels in 2012.
Some 2.09 million barrels of oil were transported in January via the Ceyhan-Kirikkale pipeline through Turkey compared to about 2.46 million barrels in January 2013.
Some 23.74 million barrels of oil were transported via the Ceyhan-Kirikkale pipeline in 2013 compared to 21.96 million barrels in 2012.
About 1.14 million barrels of oil were transported in January via the Batman-Dordyol pipeline compared to 975,000 barrels in January 2013.
Some 11.57 million barrels of oil were transported via the Batman-Dordyol pipeline in 2013 compared to 11.25 million barrels of oil in 2012.
Translated by NH