OREANDA-NEWS. December 23, 2009. The Azerbaijani State Statistics Committee (SSC) informs that for Jan-Nov of the year Kazakh oil transportation via BTC pipeline named after Heydar Aliyev totaled 1.7 million tons.

In November and October it was transported by 200,000 tons versus 100,000 tons in September, 200,000 tons in August, 92,300 tons in July, 152,900 in June, 163,000 tons in May, 137,700 tons in April, 152,800 tons in March, 240,200 tons in February and 161,100 tons in January of the year.

With taking into account transportation between October and December 2008 (285,100 tons), Kazakh oil transit via BTC pipeline has reached 1.985 million tons. Simultaneously this oil transportation in October 2008 reached 17,400 tons, in November 119,300 tons, and December 2008 148,400 tons.

For Jan-Nov 2009, BTC exported 20.66% of whole cargo transportation in Azerbaijan (170.4 million tons). For the reported term the pipeline carried 35.2 million tons of oil, including 3.1 million tons in November, 3.4 million tons in October, 3.2 million tons in September, 3.4 million in August, 3.5 million tons in July, by 3.4 million tons in June and May, 3.1 million tons in April, 3.3 million tons in March, and by 2.7 million tons in January and February of the year.

Summarizing the results of 2008 BTC transportation made 17.9% of all cargo carriages in Azerbaijan (183 million tons).  Last year it was carried 32.8 million tons of oil (+15.3% against the 2007 index) via the pipeline.