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2011 August 23   11:23

Over 1,600 tankers of oil shipped from Ceyhan port

Total of 1,619 oil tankers have been shipped from Ceyhan since the first oil was shipped through BTC.Botas International Limited (BIL), the operator of the Turkish section of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline (BTC), has announced statistics of oil shipment from the oil terminal at Ceyhan, www.news.az reports.
A total of 1,619 oil tankers have been shipped from Ceyhan since the first oil was shipped through BTC, according to Botas website.
As much as 1,258 barrels of oil have been transported via BTC since the launch of the pipeline.
BTC ships oil from Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli block of oil fields and condensate from Shah Daniz gas field in Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea. It began to transport Turkmen gas as well after a new agreement was signed in July 2010.
BTC has a capacity of 1.2m barrels a day.
BTC shareholders are BP (30.1%), AzBTC (25%), Chevron (8.9%), Statoil (8.71%), TPAO (6.3%), ENI (5%), Total (5%), Itochu (3.4%), INPEX (2.5%), ConocoPhillips (2.5%) and Hess (2.36%).

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