{"id":41176,"date":"2010-08-14T12:26:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-14T12:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/2010\/08\/14\/oil-from-turkmenistan-now-flowing-through-btc-pipeline\/"},"modified":"2010-08-14T12:26:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-14T12:26:00","slug":"oil-from-turkmenistan-now-flowing-through-btc-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2010\/08\/14\/oil-from-turkmenistan-now-flowing-through-btc-pipeline.html","title":{"rendered":"Oil from Turkmenistan Now Flowing Through BTC Pipeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arian AMU; font-size: 10.5pt\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">BP (British Petroleum) Azerbaijan has announced that Turkmen oil is now flowing through the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline, reports Radio Free Europe\/Radio Liberty.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 19px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; min-height: 16px\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 19px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; min-height: 16px\">The company only said that the pipeline is capable of handling some 800,000 barrels per day and that Turkmen oil will account for 4-5 percent of this volume.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 19px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">Baku-based energy expert Ilham Shaban tells RFE\/RL&#8217;s Azerbaijani Service that every two days Turkmenistan is unloading some 5,000 tons of oil at Baku.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 19px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">Plans call for doubling that amount by the end of August or early September.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 19px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">The oil is being brought to Baku aboard tankers from Turkmenistan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 19px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">Turkmenistan purchased two tankers (7,000 tons) from Russia&#8217;s Krasnoye Sormovo shipyard last year and is expecting a third tanker before the end of September.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 19px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">Turkmenistan has been seeking to diversify its hydrocarbon export routes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 19px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">Use of the BTC pipeline allows Turkmenistan to export oil to Europe via a route that does not pass through Russia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BP Azerbaijan has announced that Turkmen oil is now flowing through the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[10541,10540,10538,10539,10299,10542],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}