Baku: The issue concerning crude oil at the Ceyhan terminal has been successfully resolved, with all tanks now containing on-specification crude oil, as confirmed by Tamam Bayatly, Head of the Press Service of BP-Azerbaijan.
According to Azeri-Press News Agency, Bayatly responded to an inquiry from APA-Economics, stating that the operations of loading crude oil onto tankers at the terminal have returned to normal. Bayatly emphasized that the issue related to crude oil at the Ceyhan terminal has already been resolved.
In July, BTC Co. (Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline Company) received information about a potential quality issue involving organic chlorides in certain shipments of crude oil transported through the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline. In response, BTC Co. conducted comprehensive quality assessments of crude oil at all facilities along the pipeline. The results of these assessments confirmed that the quality of crude oil at all facilities up to the Ceyhan terminal met the accepted specifications.
Further quality assessments at the Ceyhan terminal revealed the presence of organic chlorides in some tanks. Immediate actions were taken to isolate these tanks, and BTC Co. worked to manage and eliminate crude oil in the affected tanks, which did not meet the accepted specifications.
The BTC pipeline primarily transports oil produced from Azerbaijan’s ‘Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli’ block and Shah Deniz condensate. It also carries other regional Caspian crude oil and condensate volumes from Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and additional volumes produced by SOCAR in Azerbaijan.
The shareholders of BTC Co. include BP (30.1%), SOCAR (32.97%), MOL (8.90%), TPAO (6.53%), Eni (5%), TotalEnergies (5%), ITOCHU (3.4%), ONGC Videsh (3.1%), ExxonMobil (2.5%), and INPEX (2.5%).