BAKU-TBİLİSİ-CEYHAN (BTC) PIPELINE

Baku-Tbilisi Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline carries oil from the Azeri-Chirag-Deepwater Gunashli (ACG) field and condensate from Shah Deniz across Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey. The pipeline buried along its entire length is 1,768km in total length; 443km in Azerbaijan, 249km in Georgia, and 1,076km in Turkey. Turkey will assume in the near future a major role in the transportation of rich reserves of 200 billion barrels of crude oil and 18 trillion m of natural gas from the Caspian Region to the world markets and to the European markets in particular.