OREANDA-NEWS. July 13, 2011. 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 dropped in June and in May after a phenomenal record of its transportation for month achieved in April of the year.

“Until 1st June 2011 it was delivered 3.058 million tons, including 1.786 million tons this year,” it was informed.

At that, this June it was supplied 168.596 tons versus 204,748 tons in May, 797,000 tons in April (absolute record of delivery per month for the entire history), 208,123 tons in March, 183,138 tons in February and 225,142 tons in January 2011 (the previous record level of pumping a month).

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