From January to September 2014 4,000,000 tons of transit oil was transported via the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline against 2.1 million tons during the same period in 2013, reads the report of the Azerbaijan State Statistical Committee during 9 months, 2014.
“During this period 4 million tons of transit oil was transported from the Sangachal terminal via the BTC,” reads the report.
During 2013 3.3 million tons of transit oil was transported via BTC against 3.1 million tons in 2012.
Since July 2010 Turkmen offshore oil is transported via BTC and since November 2013 – Kazakhstan oil from the Tengiz field. In May 2014 Russian private LUKoil company also transported 30,000 tons of oil extracted on the Russian sector of the Caspian Sea via the BTC.
