The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline is a roughly 1,768 kilometer crude oil pipeline running from the Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli oil field in the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, connecting Baku in Azerbaijan to the Turkish port of Ceyhan by way of Tbilisi in Georgia. It is the second-longest oil pipeline built in the former Soviet Union after Russia's Druzhba pipeline, and the first oil pumped from its Baku end reached Ceyhan on 28 May 2006.
Facts
Completion Year SignificanceGave Caspian oil an export route that bypasses Russia, after all Soviet-era transport routes from the Caspian region ran through Russian territory. 1 Sources
1. Wikipedia: Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline
Inauguration
The first oil that was pumped from the Baku end of the pipeline reached Ceyhan on 28 May 2006.
Description
at normal capacity it transports 1 million barrels per day (160×10^3 m3/d)
Background, routes
During Soviet times, all transportation routes from the Caspian region were through Russia.
In Group: Oil Pipelines, Lead sentence
The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline is a 1,768 kilometres (1,099 mi) long crude oil pipeline from the Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli oil field in the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean Sea.
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