Baku: Nearly 557 million tons of Azerbaijani oil have been transported through the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline to date, APA-Economics reports, citing the Ministry of Energy.

According to Azeri-Press News Agency, 20 years ago, on June 4, 2006, the first tanker loaded with export crude oil transported through the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline was dispatched. The oil transported includes production from the Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli fields and condensate from the Shah Deniz field, both located in the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea.

The pipeline starts from the Sangachal terminal and traverses through Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Trkiye, extending to the Ceyhan marine terminal on Trkiye's Mediterranean coast. The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, commissioned in June 2006, began being filled with oil on May 10, 2005, and the crude oil reached the Ceyhan terminal on May 28, 2006.