BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 14
By Nargiz Ismayilova – Trend:
More than 19.9 million barrels of oil were transported via Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline in May 2020, which is 11.1 percent less compared to the same period of last year (over 22.1 million barrels), Turkey’s BOTAS Petroleum Pipeline Corporation told Trend on July 14.
According to the company, in the first five months of this year, over 94.7 million barrels of oil were transported via the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline.
Some 235.2 million barrels of oil were transported through the BTC pipeline in 2019, which is 7.8 percent less than in 2018.
The total length of the BTC pipeline is 1,768 kilometers, of which 443 kilometers run through the territory of Azerbaijan, 249 kilometers run through Georgia, and 1,076 kilometers go through Turkey. The construction of the pipeline began in April 2003, and it was first filled with oil on May 18, 2005.
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