Baku, Azerbaijan, June 17
By Zulfiya Gurbanova - Trend:
Some 19.8 million tonnes of oil has been transported through Azerbaijan pipeline network in January-May 2014 , which is 9.4 percent more than in the same period last year, according to the State Statistics Committee report on the first five months of 2014.
Some 15 million tonnes of oil was transported through the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan during the reported period compared to 13.8 million tonnes in the same period of 2013.
"Three-quarters of all transported oil by main pipelines of the country accounted for the BTC pipeline in January-May," the report said.
In 2013, the BTC transported 33 million tonnes of oil compared to 32.9 million tonnes in 2012.
The total length of the BТС is 1.768 kilometers including a 443 kilometer long section running through Azerbaijan, a 249 kilometer long section in Georgia and a 1.076 kilometer long section in Turkey.The construction of the pipeline started in April 2003. It was filled with oil on May 18, 2005.
The shareholders of BTC are BP (30.1 percent), AzBTC (25 percent), Chevron (8.90 percent), Statoil (8.71 percent), TPAO (6.53 percent), Eni (five percent), Total (five percent), Itochu (3.40 percent), Inpex (2.5 percent), ConocoPhilips (2.50 percent) and ONGC (2.36 percent).
In January-May, 2014 the country's main pipelines transported 9.5 billion cubic meters of gas, which is 11.7 percent more than the same period last year, the report said.
Some 2.7 billion cubic meters of gas was transported through the South Caucasus gas pipeline (Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum) in the reporting period versus 1.8 billion cubic meters of gas during the same period in 2013.
In 2013, the South Caucasus gas pipeline transported 4.7 billion cubic meters of gas versus 4 billion cubic meters in 2012.
The length of the Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum pipeline is over 700 km. The gas produced at the Shah Deniz field in the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea is transported via this pipeline and is supplied to Georgia and Turkey. Azerbaijan also is a buyer of this gas.
Edited by CN
