Botas International Limited (BIL), which operates the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline in Turkey, transported 141.7 million barrels of crude oil on 185 tankers from the Ceyhan terminal to world markets this year.
So far, 3.501 billion barrels have been loaded on 4,566 tankers from Ceyhan’s port.
BIL was authorized to operate BTC in Turkey in 2001. The first tanker loading of BTC crude oil at the Ceyhan terminal took place on June 2, 2006.