Baku, Azerbaijan, Oct.1
By Maksim Tsurkov - Trend:
Turkey's Botas International Limited (BIL) company has shipped 3,024 tankers from Ceyhan oil terminal from June 2, 2006 to Oct.1, 2015, said the message posted on the company's website.
BIL has been operating the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline on Turkey's territory since 2001.
During the reporting period, 2.299 billion barrels of oil was shipped from the terminal, said the message.
The total length of the BТС is 1,768 kilometers including a 443 kilometer-long section running through Azerbaijan, a 249-kilometer long section in Georgia and a 1,076-kilometer long section in Turkey. The construction of the pipeline started in April 2003. It was filled with oil on May 18, 2005.
BTC Co. shareholders 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 (3.4 percent), Inpex (2.5 percent), ConocoPhillips (2.5 percent) and ONGC (2.36 percent).
Edited by SI
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