From July 2006 to May 1, 2008, 454 tankers with Azeri Light oil sailed away from Turkish port Ceyhan, carried there via Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline.
Azerbaijan International Operating Company (AIOC) informed that in April it was shipped 25 tankers with Azeri oil and 116 ones from early 2008.
“Last month it was sailed away 18,714,778 barrels or 2,505,128 metric tons from Ceyhan and in January-April 85,448,108.9 barrels or 11,441,110 metric tons,” it was reported.
The 1,400 km Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline was constructed to provide main oil export from ACG block. Its capacity is 50 million tons of oil a year. The pipeline belongs to BTC Co and is run by it. Membership of the BTC Co shareholders staff is mainly the same as in AIOC.