BAKU, Azerbaijan, March 24. Oil transportation via the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline (BTC) to Türkiye stood at 35.048 million barrels from January through February 2023, compared to 32.562 million barrels in the same period in 2022, Trend reports via Turkish BOTAŞ company.
As such, oil supplies to Türkiye via BTC rose by 7.6 percent year-on-year.
The BTC pipeline currently carries mainly ACG crude oil and Shah Deniz condensate from Azerbaijan. In addition, other volumes of Caspian regional crude oil and condensate (Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan) continue to be transported via BTC.
In 2022, around 224 million barrels (about 30 million tonnes) of BTC-exported crude oil was lifted at Ceyhan loaded on 305 tankers.
BTC Co. shareholders are: bp (30.1%), SOCAR (25.00%), MOL (8.90%), Equinor (8.71%), TPAO (6.53%), Eni (5.00%), TotalEnergies (5.00%), ITOCHU (3.40%), INPEX (2.50%), ExxonMobil (2.50%) and ONGCVidesh (2.36%).