Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLVIII

No 20

16-May-2005

CASPIAN

Linefill Of BTC Oil Pipeline Begins

BTC Company, the BP-led consortium that has built, owns and operates the 1,760km Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) crude pipeline on 10 May announced that filling of the BTC head pump station with oil had begun at the Sangachal terminal. From there, crude produced by the BP-led Azerbaijan International Operating Company (AIOC) at the offshore Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli (ACG) oilfields will be pumped overland to...