BTC cuts Azerbaijan oil exports in Jan-Sept

BTC shipped 2.4 million tons of Azerbaijani oil in September, up from 2.3 million tons in the year-earlier period, the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) said on its website.

The pipeline also delivered a combined 359,902 tons of Turkmen and Kazakh oil in September compared with 385,597 tons year on year.

Azerbaijan also uses the Baku-Supsa and Baku-Novorossiysk pipelines and railway to export oil.

British oil major BP is the operator of the BTC link with a 30.1 percent stake. Its partners in the project include SOCAR, Statoil, Chebron, Total and others.