Azerbaijan, Baku / corr Trend S.Aliyev / A total of 140mln barrels of Azerbaijani oil has been exported from the Turkish port of Ceyhan. This oil is produced from the Azeri- Chirag -Guneshli fields and delivered to the port via the baku -Tbilisi-Ceyhan export oil pipeline, BP Azerbaijan President, Bill Schreder stated on the 6th of June.140mln barrels of oil was shipped by 175 tankers.
BP Azerbaijan is an operator of Azeri- Chirag -Guneshli field's development and also operates BTC Co.
Oil production from the fields has exceeded to 800,000 barrels a day.
"In 2009 the production will exceed to1mln barrels of light oil a day," he stated. The current oil deliveries form the Azeri- Chirag -Guneshli field, satisfies only one fourth of the worlds demand for oil, he added.