From January to July 2015 SOCAR exported 1,609,636 tons of Azerbaijani oil transported via the Baku-Supsa oil pipeline, from the Supsa port.
SOCAR press office reported that from January to July 2014 SOCAR exported 1,787,379 tons of oil from the Supsa port. Therefore, from January to July 2015 SOCAR’s oil shipment from the Supsa port decreased by 10%.
In July 2015 SOCAR shipped 84,736 tons of oil from the Supsa port.
In 2014 SOCAR shipped 2,957,039 tons of oil from the Supsa port.
Oil extracted from the Chirag field, which is a part of the Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli (ACG) contract area (operated by BP, is exported from Supsa. Oil extraction on the Chirag field started in 1997. At present the field is at the last stage of development and the volume of extraction has been going down.