Azerbaijan, Baku, Apr. 16 / Trend /
In January-March, the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) transported 8.8 million tons compared to 8.7 million tons in the same period of 2009, the Azerbaijani State Statistics Committee reported.
In the first quarter of 2010, Azerbaijan's oil-trunk pipelines transported 11.6 million cubic meters of oil compared to 11.7 million cubic meters in January-March 2009.
In 2009, the BTC transported 38.2 million tons compared to 32.8 million tons in 2008.
The total length of BТС is 1.768km, including the 443km section running via Azerbaijan, the 249km section via Georgia and the 1.076km via Turkey. The capacity of the pipeline is more than 50mln tons of oil per day (1mln barrel per day).
The shareholders of BTC are BP (30.1%), AzBTC (25%), Chevron (8.90%), StatoilHydro (8.71%), TRAO (6.53%), Eni (5%), Total (5%), Itochu (3.40%), Inpex (2.50%), ConocoPhilips (2.50%) and Hess (2.36%).
In January-March, the South Caucasus gas pipeline (Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum) transported 1.3 billion cubic meters of gas compared to 1.6 billion cubic meters in the same period of 2009.
In the first quarter of 2010, Azerbaijan's gas-trunk pipelines transported 4.9 billion cubic meters of gas compared to 4.7 billion cubic meters in January-March 2009.
In 2009, Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum transported 5.2 billion cubic meters of gas compared to 4.7 billion cubic meters in 2008.
The range of the Baku - Tbilisi - Erzurum (South Caucasian gas pipeline) is more than 700km. The pumping capacity is more than 20bln cu m of gas per year. The gas produced from the Shah Deniz field in the Azerbaijani sector of the Capian Sea is transported via the pipeline. The gas is supplied Georgia and Turkey. Azerbaijan also appears as the buyer of gas.