Azeri crude exports through Ceyhan port reaches 10.07m tons
The volume of Azerbaijan crude oil exported through the Turkish Port of Ceyhan in January-April 2012 totaled 10.07 million tons, Day.Az reports citing SOCAR statistics.
In January, the figure was 2.45 million tons. In February the country exported 2.36 million tons, in March - 2.5 mln tons and in April - 2.77 mln tons.
Overall, since the commissioning in June 2006 of BP PLC-operated Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline (BTC), crude shipments through the port of Ceyhan has totaled 184.09 million tons.
The crude oil supplied through BTC and exported to the world market is extracted from "Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli" oil fields (ACG) and condensate from the gas-condensate field "Shakh-Deniz" based in the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea. Besides, after signing in July 2010 a new agreement some volumes of crude oil is supplied from Turkmenistan and Tengiz field in Kazakhstan. BTC capacity is 1.2 million brl/d.
The BTC Co. stockholders are: BP (30.1%); AzBTC (25,00%); Chevron (8.90%); StatoilHydro (8.71%); TPAO (6.53%); ENI (5.00%); Total (5.00%), Itochu (3.40%); INPEX (2.50%), ConocoPhillips (2,50%), and Hess (2.36%).