Companies / Azerbaijan
Storm Continues To Swirl Around BTC
May 2006 | Project NewsUS oil major ExxonMobil has bought the first cargo from the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline, transporting the commodity in a 300,000 tonnes deadweight tanker from the Turkish port of Ceyhan. However, a row has erupted over the source of this oil. Pressure group Baku-Ceyhan Campaign is accusing the pipeline's operator, UK oil major BP, of filling the tanker with oil pumped through another pipeline to keep the project on schedule. The group has responded to these claims by saying that oil from BTC and a storage terminal in Ceyhan was used, which it stated was totally normal practice, while all oil
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