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Oil
companies involved in the pipelines system
Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan
oil pipeline (BTC)
The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan
was planned and is being built by the BTC Pipeline Company (BTC Co),
a consortium led and operated by British oil major BP. Shares in
the consortium are distributed as follows:
BP
(UK)
– 30.1%, operator
State
Oil Company of Azerbaijan
(SOCAR) – 25%
Unocal
(US) – 8.9%
Statoil
(Norway) –
8.71%
Turkish
Petroleum (TPAO)
– 6.53%
ENI
(Italy)
– 5%
TotalFinaElf
(France) –
5%
Itochu
(Japan) – 3.4%
ConocoPhillips
(US) – 2.5%
Inpex (Japan) - 2.5%
Delta
Hess (joint venture of Delta
Oil
(Saudi Arabia) with Amerada
Hess
(US)) – 2.36%
Ownership of the BTC Co is shown in a flash
diagram on the BTC Directorate website
The related
South Caucasus gas pipeline (which runs alongside the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan
oil pipeline as far as northern Turkey), and the Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli
oilfields and Shah Deniz gasfield which would feed the pipelines,
were also planned by similar consortia.
South Caucasus
gas Pipeline (SCP)
Partners:
BP
– 25.5%
Statoil
– 25.5% operator
State
Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) – 10%
TotalFinaElf
– 10%
LUKAgip
(joint venture of Lukoil
(Russia) with Agip
(Italy)) –
10%
OIEC
(Iran) – 10%
Turkish
Petroleum (TPAO) – 9%
Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli
oil fields
They are controlled
by the Azerbaijan International Operating Company (AIOC), comprising:
BP
– 34.1%, operator
Unocal
– 10.3%
State
Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) – 10%
Inpex
(Japan)
– 10%
Statoil
– 8.6%
ExxonMobil
(US) – 8%
TPAO
– 6.8%
Pennzoil
(US) – 5.6%
Itochu
– 3.9%
Delta
Hess – 2.7%
(Not
all these companies support the BTC pipeline route).
Shah Deniz gas
field
The Shah Deniz
consortium is the same as that which controls the SCP:
BP
– 25.5%
Statoil
– 25.5% operator
State
Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) – 10%
TotalFinaElf
– 10%
LUKAgip
(joint venture of Lukoil
(Russia) with Agip
(Italy)) –
10%
OIEC
(Iran) – 10%
Turkish
Petroleum (TPAO) – 9%
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