First Tengiz crude enters Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan line

摘要

Istanbul-BP said November 3 the first volumes of crude from the Tengiz oil field in Kazakhstan have entered the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline from Azerbaijan to Turkey."As we announced two weeks ago,shipment of Tengiz crude through BTC was slated to begin by the end of October,and this is what has occurred,"a BP spokesman said.The spokesman declined to comment on how much Tengiz crude was being carried by the line,although some reports have indicated that the volume is currently less than 50,000 b/d.