The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline is expected to pump 27.35 million barrels of crude oil in December, rising from 24.6 million barrels when compared with volumes planned for delivery in November, according to a crude oil trader who received the loading program.
December loadings will amount to 822,258 barrels of oil a day, compared with 820,000 b/d last month.
The program includes seven 1,000,000 barrel cargoes and 18 800,000 barrel cargoes, according to the trader.
BP PLC (BP) is a 30% stakeholder in the BTC pipeline, which carries Azeri crude from Baku in Azerbaijan to the Mediterranean port of Ceyhan in Turkey.