OREANDA-NEWS. April 9, 2009. The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) resumed publishing statistics on Azerbaijani oil export via the major pipeline Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) n.a. Heydar Aliyev.

SOCAR reported in March it was delivered 3.1 million tons of Azerbaijani oil to Turkish Ceyhan port. “For January-March 2009 delivery made 8.2 million tons.” SOCAR said.
Since the moment BTC commissioned (mid-2006) export from Ceyhan has reached 78.6 million tons.

For comparison: in March shipping volume from Ceyhan port totaled 2.9 million tons of Azerbaijani oil and for Jan-Mar 2009 – 8.4 million tons. Since the moment BTC commissioned up to April 1, 2009 export from Ceyhan has made 76.7 million tons.