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Azerbaijan reveals 1H2021 volume of local oil transported through BTC pipeline

Oil&Gas Materials 15 July 2021 16:59 (UTC +04:00)
Azerbaijan reveals 1H2021 volume of local oil transported through BTC pipeline

BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 15

By Sadraddin Aghjayev - Trend:

Most of oil transported from January through June 2021 via the main oil pipelines of Azerbaijan accounted for the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline, Trend reports on July 15 referring to the State Statistical Committee's report.

According to the source, in the reporting period over 13 million tons of oil (74.9 percent of all oil transported through main oil pipelines of the country) had been transported via the BTC pipeline.

In total, over 17.4 million tons of oil were transported through the oil pipelines of Azerbaijan in the first half of 2021, which is 5.15 percent less than in the same period of last year.

Meanwhile, about 1.65 million tons of transit (Turkmen) oil was pumped through the BTC, down 27.3 percent on annual basis.

The total length of the BTC pipeline is 1,768 kilometers, of which 443 kilometers pass through the territory of Azerbaijan, 249 kilometers - Georgia, 1,076 kilometers - Turkey. Construction of the pipeline was launched in April 2003 and was filled with oil on May 18, 2005.

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