
First Ship Loads Oil from BTC
The first cargo of oil transported through the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline was exported from the Ceyhan marine terminal on the Turkish Mediterranean coast, BP, operator of the BTC pipeline, announced on June 4.
A cargo of around 600,000 barrels of crude oil from Azerbaijan was loaded onto the BP tanker.
The loading process followed the completion of testing, commissioning, and filling of the BTC pipeline along its entire route across Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey, from the Sangachal terminal on the Caspian coast near Baku to the Ceyhan terminal in Turkey.
A total of 10 million barrels of oil from the Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli (ACG) fields in the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea were required to fill the 1,768-kilometre pipeline, a process which began in May 2005.
?The pipeline currently serves only the ACG fields but is expected, in the longer term, to attract volumes from other parts of the region,? BP said.
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