OREANDA-NEWS. September 7, 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 again decreased versus its rise in July. In July they increased after fall in June and May from a phenomenal record of transportation for month achieved in April 2011.

“Until 1st September  2011 it was delivered 3.397 million tons, including 2.126 million tons this year,” it was informed.

At that, this August it was supplied 148.118 tons versus 191.494 tons in July,168,596 tons in June, 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.