In July 2014 2 billion barrels of oil delivered via the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline is planned to be shipped from the Mediterranean terminal Ceyhan. This forecast is based on the data of the tankers shipment in the Ceyhan port submitted by Botas International Limited (BIL) company, which is the operator of the Turkish part of the BTC oil pipeline.
According to BIL, since beginning of oil shipment from BTC on June 2, 2006 till April 25, 2014 2,503 tankers have been shipped from Ceyhan. The volume of shipped oil totaled 1,924,000,000 barrels.
2500 tankers with oil from BTC has been shipped from Ceyhan on April 21, 2014.
Oil from the bloc of oil fields Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli (ACG) and condensate from the Shah Deniz gas condensate field in the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea is pumped via the BTC. Since signing of a new agreement in July 2010 Turkmenistan oil is also transported via the pipeline. Kazakhstan oil is pumped via BTC as well.
BTC capacity is 1.2 million barrels a day. BTC Co shareholders include BP (30.1%), SOCAR (25%), Chevron (8.9%), Statoil (8.71%), TPAO (6.53%), ENI (5%), Total (5%), Itochu (3,4%), INPEX (2.5%), ConocoPhillips (2.5%) and Hess (2.36%).
