BAKU, Azerbaijan, Aug.18
By Sadraddin Aghjayev - Trend:
Most of oil transported from January to July 2021 via the main oil pipelines of Azerbaijan accounted for the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline, Trend reports on Aug.18 referring to the State Statistical Committee's report.
According to the report, in the specified period over 15.2 million tons of oil (74.9 percent of all oil transported through main oil pipelines of the country) have been transported via the BTC pipeline.
In total, over 20.3 million tons of oil have been transported through the oil pipelines of Azerbaijan in the first seven months of 2021, which is three percent less than in the same period of last year.
Meanwhile, more than 1.9 million tons of transit (Turkmen) oil was pumped through the BTC, down 20.7 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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