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SOCAR oil export from Turkey’s Ceyhan down in 2016

Oil&Gas Materials 5 January 2017 15:01 (UTC +04:00)

Baku, Azerbaijan, Jan. 5

By Maksim Tsurkov – Trend:

Azerbaijan’s state oil company SOCAR exported 16.78 million tons of oil from the Turkish port of Ceyhan in 2016, as compared to 17.93 million tons in 2015, SOCAR said in a message Jan. 5.

In December 2016, 1.29 million tons of oil was exported from the Ceyhan port, as compared to 1.85 million tons in the same period of 2015.

Oil is delivered to the Ceyhan port via the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline.

The total length of the BТС is 1,768 kilometers, including a 443-kilometer section running through Azerbaijan, a 249-kilometer section in Georgia and a 1,076-kilometer section in Turkey.

The pipeline’s construction started in 2003. It was filled with oil in 2005.

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