Azerbaijani oil transportation via BTC reaches 557M tons

Nearly 557 million tons of Azerbaijani oil have been transported through the Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline to date, Report informs citing the Ministry of Energy of Azerbaijan.

It was noted that exactly 20 years ago – on June 4, 2006 – the first tanker loaded with export crude oil transported via BTC was dispatched.

The pipeline carries oil produced from the Azeri–Chirag–Gunashli (ACG) fields and condensate from the Shah Deniz field in the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea. Starting from the Sangachal terminal, BTC runs through Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Türkiye, reaching the Ceyhan marine terminal on the Mediterranean coast.

The pipeline was officially commissioned in June 2006, but filling with oil began on May 10, 2005, with crude reaching Ceyhan on May 28, 2006.