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Oil transportation via BTC through Turkey decreased by up to 9%

13 September 2021 09:54 (UTC +04:00)

132,052 thousand barrels of oil were transported via the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline (BTC) through Turkish territory in January-August of this year, which is 8.6% less in comparison with the corresponding period of the previous year, Turkey’s crude oil and natural gas pipelines and trading company BOTAS told APA-Economics.

144,525 thousand barrels of oil were transported via the pipeline through Turkey in January-August of 2020.

Note that oil, produced in the Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli fields of Azerbaijan, is imported via BTC pipeline. Moreover, oil of other producers is also transported to Turkey territory.