BAKU: The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) has announced the latest statistic data on Azeri oil export via main export pipeline Baku – Tbilisi – Ceyhan (BTC) named after Heydar Aliyev: in January 2016, compared to December 2015, crude oil shipment from Ceyhan grew by 4%. SOCAR reports that in January from the Turkish port of Ceyhan it was shipped 2,848,091 tons of Azerbaijani oil against 2,739,625 tons in December 2015.
Last year the best shipment for the month was observed in November (2,306,069 tons). In January 1,510,91 tons of overall shipping accounted for the State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan (SOFAZ) against 1,848,765 tons in December 2015. The best shipment in favor of SOFAZ for past year was registered in September (1,928,078 tons).
In 2015 shipment of Azeri oil from Ceyhan totaled 29,079,649 tons. Shipment in the interests of the SOFAZ was estimated at 18,546,238 tons. As of 1 February 2016, the total shipment from Ceyhan Azerbaijani oil reached 29,4041,863 tons.