BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 17. The volume of oil transportation through the Baku-Supsa pipeline marking 25 years of its commissioning has been revealed, Trend reports via the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR).
“Over the entire period of operation, 100 million tons of oil passed through it,” SOCAR said.
To note, Baku-Supsa is the first oil pipeline built in modern Azerbaijan. Its construction took two years and was carried out within the framework of the project “Extraction of early oil from the Caspian Chirag field” under the first international oil contract of Azerbaijan - Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli (ACG).
The length of the pipeline is 829.6 kilometers. Its throughput capacity is up to five million tons of oil per year (145,000 barrels per day).
Exports through the pipeline have been suspended since May 2022 due to a lack of nominations from the shipper group, and the focus was on the transportation of Azerbaijani oil and condensate from all fields via the strategic Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline (access to the Mediterranean Sea, a more profitable market).
Earlier this April, a SOCAR representative said that Kazakhstan is considering the possibility of transporting its oil (up to three million tons per year) through this pipeline and was studying the tariff proposal submitted by the Azerbaijani side for the KazMunayGas company.
