Tuesday, 6 January 2009Nearly 70 million tons of crude oil has been transported via Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan (BTC) Pipeline from June 2006 till the end of 2008, officials from BOTAS International Limited (BIL), operator of BTC's Turkey section, said on Tuesday.
Officials told A.A that BTC Pipeline project, which is described as the "energy project of the century", successfully carried the Caspian oil to the world markets through Turkey.
According to officials, nearly 70 million tons of crude oil has been transported with 650 tankers from the Haydar Aliyev Sea Terminal in Ceyhan town of Turkey's southern Adana province since June 2, 2006.
BIL's Director General Salih Pasaoglu said that his company carried the crude oil from Ardahan town of the eastern province of Kars to Ceyhan, overcoming tough geographical and climatic conditions.
"We have shown the world that a Turkish company can carry out such an important project at world standards. We have improved Turkey's prestige in the world energy markets," Pasaoglu said.
The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline is a crude oil pipeline that covers 1,768 kilometres (1,099 miles) from the Azeri-Chirag-Gunesli oil field in the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean Sea.
It connects Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan; Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia; and Ceyhan, a port on the southern Mediterranean coast of Turkey. BTC is the second longest oil pipeline in the world after the Druzhba pipeline.
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Tuesday, 6 January 2009
ADANA (A.A)
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