BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 2
By Nargiz Ismayilova – Trend:
Turkish BOTAS International Limited (BIL) has to date shipped about 3.4 billion barrels of oil from Ceyhan oil terminal, Trend reports referring to BIL.
The BIL data shows that 4,527 tankers with oil from Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli (ACG) block of fields have been loaded from the terminal to date.
Some 146 tankers with ACG oil (around 112.8 million barrels of oil) were shipped from the Ceyhan oil terminal since early 2020.
In 2001, BIL was restructured to operate the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline. The first BTC crude oil was shipped by tanker from Ceyhan terminal on 2 June 2006.
Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan crude oil pipeline was built for the safe, economic and environmentally friendly transportation of oil produced in the Caspian region through Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey.
Oil from the ACG block located in the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian is transported via BTC to the world markets.
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