Turkmenistan Oriental Network reported on March 22 that in an interview with S&P Global Praz News Agency, Alshad Nasilov, Vice President of Marketing and Investment of Azerbaijani National Petroleum Corporation (SOCAR), said that at least 4 million tons of Turkmenistan oil would be transported to the international market through the Baku-Tbilisi-Jeyhan pipeline in 2020.
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Na said that SOCAR transported crude oil across the Caspian Sea on tankers and then through the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline to the Turkish port of Ceyhan. Na pointed out that 4.2 million tons of local crude oil had been transported by this route in 2018 and decreased in 2019 because of the resumption of crude oil exports to Russia through the Mahathikara trading port this year.
Turkmenistan’s crude oil production is about 11 million tons per year. Most of the crude oil is processed at the Turkmenistan Bashi Refinery.
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