BP closes Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline
British Petroleum (BP) has closed the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline for maintenance works, ITAR-TASS quoted a company employee as saying.
British Petroleum heads the BTC consortium and, besides operating the pipeline, has a 30.1-percent share of the project, exceeding that of the State Oil Co. of Azerbaijan, which owns 25 percent.
The pipeline starts from the Sangachal Terminal near Baku in Azerbaijan. The route of the pipeline crosses Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey to Ceyhan. The pipeline's destination is the Ceyhan Marine Terminal on the south-eastern Mediterranean coast of Turkey. Of its total length of 1,768 kilometers (1,099 mi), 443 kilometers (275 mi) lie in Azerbaijan, 249 kilometers (155 mi) in Georgia and 1,076 kilometers (669 mi) in Turkey.
An explosion occurred on Aug. 5, 2008, on the BTC pipeline segment at Yurtbasi village; after Ankara was notified, valves 29 and 31 were closed as officials waited for the oil contained in the 4-mile segment of No. 30 terminal to burn out.
British Petroleum heads the BTC consortium and, besides operating the pipeline, has a 30.1-percent share of the project, exceeding that of the State Oil Co. of Azerbaijan, which owns 25 percent.
The pipeline starts from the Sangachal Terminal near Baku in Azerbaijan. The route of the pipeline crosses Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey to Ceyhan. The pipeline's destination is the Ceyhan Marine Terminal on the south-eastern Mediterranean coast of Turkey. Of its total length of 1,768 kilometers (1,099 mi), 443 kilometers (275 mi) lie in Azerbaijan, 249 kilometers (155 mi) in Georgia and 1,076 kilometers (669 mi) in Turkey.
An explosion occurred on Aug. 5, 2008, on the BTC pipeline segment at Yurtbasi village; after Ankara was notified, valves 29 and 31 were closed as officials waited for the oil contained in the 4-mile segment of No. 30 terminal to burn out.
