OREANDA-NEWS. November 10, 2010. The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) has announced next statistic data on Azeri oil export via main export pipeline Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) named after Heydar Aliyev.

SOCAR informs that this October it was shipped 3.237 million tons of Azeri oil from Turkish port Ceyhan against 2.975 million tons in September, 3.1 million tons in August, 3.5 million tons in July, 3.28 million tons in June, 3.5 million in May, 3.1 million tons in April, 2.84 million tons in March, 2.5 million tons in February, and by 2.8 million tons in January 2010 and December 2009.

As a result, this October’s shipping increased by 8.8% versus the previous month.

“For Jan-Oct 2010 shipping totaled 32.129 million tons,” it was informed.

Last year export made up 36.3 million tons, and the last year’s best indicator was registered in May (3.5 million tons). This indicator was repeated in May and July of 2010.

From the very beginning of BTC pipe operation since mid-2006 to 1st November 2010 export from Ceyhan totaled 135.748 million tons of Azeri oil.