OREANDA-NEWS. April 09, 2012. Pipeline Company BTC Co is exploiting actively an additional source of oil for transportation via Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline named after Heydar Aliyev.

The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan informs that Turkmen oil supplies started via BTC in July 2010 decreased in March versus February’s indicators.

“Until 1st April 2012  it was delivered 5.076 million tons, including 2.237 million tons last year,” it was informed.

At that, this March it was supplied 317.981 tons versus 326.676 tons in February, 318.158 tons this January and 797,000 tons in April 2011 (absolute record of delivery per month for the entire history). In January-March 962.815 tons of Turkmen oil was pumped.

The agreement on Turkmen oil transportation via BTC was signed in July 2010 and prolonged in June 2011.