Botas International Limited (BIL), the operator of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline in Turkey, has transported 67.225 million barrels of crude oil from the Ceyhan terminal this year, Report. az informs.
The crude oil was loaded onto 92 tankers and distributed to the world markets.
To date, 4,751 tankers with 3.638 billion barrels of oil have been shipped from the port of Ceyhan.
BIL has been operating BTC in Turkey since 2001. The first BTC crude oil tanker was dispatched from the Ceyhan terminal on June 2, 2006.
Over 3.161 billion tons of oil were transported via the main oil pipelines of Azerbaijan in January. According to the committee, 79.4% of the transportation was carried out via the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline. The volume of transported oil dropped by 2.8% compared to the corresponding period of the previous year. In January, the BTC pipeline pumped over 2.509 billion tons of oil, which is 4.5% less than in the same period last year. During the reporting period, oil transit via BTC amounted to 276.1 million tons (- 27.8%).
It is noteworthy that operating expenses of the main export Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan pipeline (BTC) totaled $ 111 mln and capital expenses $ 29 mln in 2020.
Compared to the previous year, operating expenses reduced by $ 27 mln or 19.6%, while capital expenses by $15 mln or 34.1%.
Between 2006 and the first half of 2018, the 1,768 long BTC pipeline transported 475 mln tonnes of crude oil (3,57 bln barrel) to the world market.
In 2020, more than 27.8 mln tonnes (211 mln barrels) crude oil and condensate passed through the BTC and loaded on 278 tankers at Ceyhan. Over the year, the transported amount shrank by 3.2 mln tonnes or 10.3%.
BTC shareholder companies are as follows: BP (30,10%), AzBTC (25,00%), Chevron (8,90%), Equinor (8,71%), TPAO (6,53%), ENİ (5,00%), Total (5,00%), Itochu (3,40%), Inpex (2,50%), ExxonMobil (2,50%) и ONGC (BTC) Ltd. (2,36%).