SOCAR (State Oil Company of Azerbaijan) has announced a tender on shipping a consignment of its own oil branded Azeri Light from the Turkish Mediterranean Port of Ceyhan. Notably, this oil is carried to the Turkish Port via the BTC Pipeline (Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan), a source in SOCAR told Trend.
The volume of the forthcoming oil consignment will reach 1 mln. barrels of oil (or 135.000 tons). The shipment is expected to be held in January 28 вЂ" February, 2, 2007. The results of the tender will be announced on January 1.
The price on oil branded AZERI LT FOB Ceyhan in January 24, 2007 was $53,77 per barrel. ( (it increased on $1,40 per barrel versus the previous one).
The SOCAR oil consignments from Ceyhan were both by the following companies:
Glencore Energy UK Ltd вЂ" January (1 mln. barrels);
VД°LMA OД°L S.L вЂ" January-February (1 mln. berrels);
Select Energy GmbH вЂ" February (600.000 barells).