BAKU, Azerbaijan, Jan.21. The volume of crude oil transportation to Türkiye via the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline stood at 225.445 million barrels in 2022, as compared to 200.149 million barrels in 2021 (up by 12.64 percent), Trend reports citing Türkiye’s BOTAS company.
During 2022, the highest volume of oil transportation to Türkiye via BTC was recorded in October with 20.749 million barrels, while the lowest level was observed in February with 15.063 million barrels.
BTC pipeline has transported 4,000,232,552 barrels of oil with 5,250 tankers from the start of commercial deliveries in 2006 until end-2022.
BTC supplied 200,467,463 barrels and 224,388,520 barrels of crude oil to the world markets in 2021 and 2022, respectively.
The BTC pipeline currently carries mainly ACG crude oil and Shah Deniz condensate from Azerbaijan. In addition, other volumes of crude oil and condensate continue to be transported via BTC, including volumes from Turkmenistan, Russia and Kazakhstan.
The BTC Co. shareholders are: bp (30.1 percent); AzBTC (25 percent); MOL (replaced Chevron as of 16 April 2020 (8.9 percent); Equinor (8.71 percent); TPAO (6.53 percent).
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