From July 2006 to June 1, 2008, 517 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 June it was shipped 26 tankers with Azeri oil and 179 ones from early 2008.
“Last month it was sailed away 21,712,346 barrels or 2,905,078 metric tons from Ceyhan and in January-June 136,655,733.9 barrels or 18,293,782 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.