BTC pipeline carried over 18 million tonnes of oil in nine months

According to a report published by the State Statistics Committee of Azerbaijan, the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline transported 18.857 million tonnes of oil in January–September 2026. Based on Trend's calculations using the committee's data, this is 1.712 million tonnes, or 8.3 percent, lower than in the same period of 2025, when 20.569 million tonnes were transported.

In the period, 82 percent of the total oil transported via BTC (15.456 million tonnes) came from Azerbaijan, while 18 percent (3.401 million tonnes) came from Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan. According to the latest bp data, more than 4.7 billion barrels of oil have been transported through the 1,768-kilometre pipeline since it entered operation in June 2006 through the end of June 2026.

The pipeline currently carries mainly oil from the Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli (ACG) block and condensate from the Shah Deniz field. Additional volumes of Caspian oil and condensate continue to flow through BTC, including feedstock from Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, as well as other oil produced by SOCAR in Azerbaijan.