(MENAFN- AzerNews)
By Ayya Lmahamad
Some 463 million tons of Azerbaijani oil were transported
through the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline over the 16 years,
Azernews reports with reference to Energy Minister Parviz
Shahbazov.
'16 years have passed since the BTC system was fully
operational. In this period, approximately 518 million tons of
#oil, including 463 million tons of #AzerbaijaniOil, were
transported through BTC,' the minister wrote on his official Twitter page.
The BTC pipeline is a transport pipeline for Azerbaijani oil
from the Caspian Sea to the port of Ceyhan in Turkey, and then to
European markets via the Mediterranean Sea.
The official opening ceremony of the BTC oil pipeline took place
in Turkey in July 2006.
The total length of the pipeline is 1,768 km, of which 443 km
pass through the territory of Azerbaijan; 249 km via Georgia; 1,076
km through Turkey. The projected capacity is 50 million tonnes of
oil per year or one million barrels per day. Light oil produced at
the Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli field is transported via the BTC.
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