BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 18. Oil transportation via Baku-Supsa pipeline has been halted due to the lack of requests for transshipping Azeri Light from Supsa terminal, VP Caspian Communications & Advocacy at bp Bakhtiyar Aslanbayli told reporters, Trend reports.
He recalled the oil transportation via this pipeline was suspended in March and was resumed after repair and adjustment works carried out from April 1 to April 17. Afterwards, the oil pumping via Baku-Supsa was halted again.
“Due to the halt of Baku-Supsa, the whole volume of Azerbaijani oil is exported via Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan,” said Aslanbayli.
The volume of oil transportation via the Baku-Supsa pipeline stood 4.2 million tons as of 2021. The oil produced from Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli (ACG) block of fields offshore Azerbaijan accounted for the whole volume of transportation.
Baku-Supsa, or Western Route Export Pipeline transports Caspian oil from Sagachal terminal near Baku to Georgian Supsa port in the Black Sea. The pipeline was put into operation on April 17, 1999.
Baku-Supsa’s length stands at 837 kilometers with transportation capacity exceeding 7 million tons per year or 145 million barrels per day. The bp operated pipeline’s final destination is the port of Supsa, wherefrom oil is transported to Europe via tankers.
---
Follow the author on Twitter: @Lyaman_Zeyn