In the first quarter of 2024, BTC Co. spent about $33 million in operating expenditure and $7 million in capital expenditure.
Since the 1,768 km BTC pipeline became operational in June 2006 till the end of the first quarter of 2024, it carried a total of about 4.3 billion barrels (about 568 million tonnes) of crude oil loaded on 5,629 tankers and sent to world markets, Caspian Energy Media reports with reference to BP's final report of the first quarter of the current year.
In the first quarter of 2024, about 54 million barrels (7 million tonnes) of BTC-exported crude oil was lifted at Ceyhan and loaded on 72 tankers.