Botas International Limited (BIL), which operates the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline in Turkey, transported 193.8 million barrels of crude oil from the Ceyhan terminal this year.
According to “QİA.AZ”, this crude oil amount was loaded on 257 tankers and sent to world markets.
So far, 3.554 billion barrels of oil have been shipped on 4,638 tankers from Ceyhan port.
BIL was authorized to operate BTC in Turkey in 2001. The first tanker loading of BTC crude oil at the Ceyhan terminal took place on June 2, 2006.