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November 5, Fineko/abc.az. In the first 3 quarters, BTC spent approximately $95 million in operating expenditure and about $25 million in capital expenditure.

ABC.AZ reports on the occasion with reference to BP Azerbaijan.

Since the 1,768 km BTC pipeline became operational in June 2006 till the end of the third quarter of 2019, it carried a total of 3.3 billion barrels (around 440 million tonnes) of crude oil loaded on 4,307 tankers and sent to world markets.

During the three quarters of the year, BTC exported more than 177 million barrels (about 24 million tonnes) of crude oil loaded on 222 tankers at Ceyhan.

The BTC pipeline currently carries mainly ACG crude oil and Shah Deniz condensate from Azerbaijan. In addition, other volumes of crude oil and condensate continue to be transported via BTC, including volumes from Turkmenistan, Russia and Kazakhstan.