BAKU, Azerbaijan, Dec. 27
By Anastasia Savchenko - Trend:
From June 2, 2006 through December 2019, Turkish Botas International Limited (BIL) company providing the operation of Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline shipped 3.3 billion barrels of oil from BTC pipeline, Trend reports on December 27 referring to the BIL company.
During this period, in total 4,378 tankers were shipped from BTC.
The total lengths of BTC oil pipeline is 1,768 kilometers, 443 km of which lay in Azerbaijan, 249 km in Georgia, 1,076 km in Turkey.
The construction of pipeline began in April 2003, and its filling with oil on May 18, 2005.
The shareholders of BTC, which was established on August 1, 2002 to implement the project, are BP (30.1 percent), AzBTC (25 percent), Chevron (8.9 percent), Statoil (8.71 percent), TPAO (6,53 percent), Eni (5 percent), Total (5 percent), Itochu (3.4 percent), Inpex (2.5 percent), CIECO (2.50 percent) and ONGC (2.36 percent).
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