OREANDA-NEWS. 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 which started via BTC since July 2010, reduced in January 2013 versus the index of December 2012.

“Until 1st February 2012 it was delivered 7.358 million tons, including 196,447 tons in 2013, 3.048 million in 2012 and 2.237 million tons in 2011,” it was informed.

At that, in January 2013 it was supplied 196,447 tons versus 228,188 tons in December 2012. The index for February 2012 (326,676 tons) is the best for the past year. The absolute record of delivery per month for the entire history was registered in April 2011 (797,000 tons).