Azerbaijan’s oil exports via the Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan pipeline fell to 27.18 million tonnes in 2025, down 7.8 per cent from a year earlier, as supplies were affected by tainted oil, Azerbaijani data showed.
The BTC pipeline, which runs through Georgia to Turkey, is used to export oil from the Azeri, Chirag and Guneshli oilfields, which are operated by BP.
Azerbaijan’s total oil transit amounted to 36.3 million tonnes in 2025, with 74.9 per cent shipped via the BTC pipeline, according to the country’s statistics committee.
Transit oil volumes from other countries, including Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, transported via BTC fell to 4.12 million tonnes in 2025 from 5.30 million tonnes in 2024, the data showed.
Organic chloride contamination in Azerbaijani BTC cargoes was detected in July, leading to several days of loading delays at Turkey’s Ceyhan terminal and disrupting export flows from the pipeline.
(Reporting by Nailia Bagirova; Editing by Joe Bavier)
