BAKU, Azerbaijan, Oct. 17
By Fidan Babayeva - Trend:
Over 21.1 million tons of oil were transported from Azerbaijan via the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline from January through September 2020, which is 10.5 percent less compared to the same period of 2019, Trend reports citing a report from the State Statistical Committee of Azerbaijan.
“In 2020, the BTC pipeline accounted for 79.6 percent of all oil transported through the country's main oil pipelines. Over 26.57 million tons of oil were transported through them,” said the report.
During the first nine months of 2020, over 3 million tons of transit (Turkmen) oil was pumped through the BTC, which is 11 percent less compared to the same period of 2019.
The total length of the BTC pipeline is 1,768 kilometers, of which 443 kilometers runs through the territory of Azerbaijan, 249 kilometers - Georgia, 1,076 kilometers - Turkey. Construction of the pipeline began in April 2003, and it's filling with oil on May 18, 2005.
