SOCAR exports over 17m t of oil from Ceyhan port

Azerbaijan`s state oil firm, SOCAR, has said it transported 17.09 million tons of oil in January-October from the Turkish port of Ceyhan. The export made 1.58 million tons in October, according to the company.

Oil is supplied to the Ceyhan port through the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline. The B??`s total length is 1.768 kilometers including a 443-kilometre section running via Azerbaijan, a 249-kilometre section traversing Georgia and a 1.076-kilometre section passing through Turkey. The pipeline`s construction began in April 2003. The first oil flowed on May 18, 2005.


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