BTC project
There is a plan to export 19 mln barrels (2.5 mln tons) of oil from Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli fields by the BTC pipeline in April, according to sources in the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan.
According to the sources in the company, Azerbaijan’s profit oil will make up 14 mln barrels (1.8 mln tons) of the overall volume of April oil export.
In 2009 the BTC pipeline exported 36.2 mln tons of oil. On the whole, since the start of the operation it has pumped 106.5 mln tons of oil as at 1 January.
The shareholders of the BTC Co pipeline company are BP (30.1%), SOCAR (25%), Chevron (8.9%), Statoil (8.71%), TPAO (6.53%), Itochu (3.4%), Amerada Hess (2.36%), ENI (5%), ConocoPhilliрs (2.5%), Inрex (2.5%), Total (5%).
Rufat Aliyev
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