BAKU, Azerbaijan, March 15. Baku-Supsa or Western Route Export Pipeline (WREP) is operational, but in order to resume supplies via this pipeline, it is necessary to receive nominations from shippers, bp told Trend.
“When the Ceyhan terminal suspended loading oil coming from the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline due to the earthquake that hit Türkiye on February 6, Baku-Supsa reopened to supply the oil shipped by Azerbaijan’s state oil company SOCAR in two tankers. We haven’t received any nominations since then. If we don’t receive nominations for oil supplies for May, it means that Baku-Supsa will not transport oil neither in April nor in May. Baku-Supsa is operational, but in order to resume supplies, we need to receive nominations. After the outbreak of war in Ukraine shippers don’t want to send their tankers to the Black Sea,” said bp.
WREP transports oil from Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli (ACG) to Supsa on the Black Sea coast of Georgia. Exports through the pipeline have been suspended since May 2022 due to a lack of nominations from the shipper group.
The length of the pipeline is 837 kilometers. Its throughput capacity exceeds 7 million tons of oil per year (145,000 barrels per day). The pipeline operator is bp. The final point of oil transportation is the Black Sea port of Supsa in Georgia. Then the oil is transported by tankers to consumers in Europe.
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