Azeri oil exports via Turkey pipeline up 5pc Jan-July

BAKU: Azeri oil exports through the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline via Georgia and Turkey totalled 17.7 million tonnes in January-July, up 5 percent from the same period in 2015, state energy company SOCAR said on Monday.

Oil exports through the BTC rose 1.15 percent in 2015 to 28.84 million tonnes.

Azerbaijan exports oil via the pipeline from the Azeri, Chirag and Guneshli (ACG) oil fields operated by BP.

It also exports oil via Russia, through the Baku-Novorossiisk pipeline and via Georgia by rail and through the Baku-Supsa pipeline.

Oil from Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan is also exported through the BTC.