Ceyhan Terminal
A marine oil terminal situated at the port of Ceyhan in the Turkish Mediterranean which receives hydrocarbons from offshore assets in the Caspian Sea via the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline for further loading on tankers which carry the oil to world markets. Ceyhan Terminal covers an area of 144 hectares (1.44 sq. km) square km. Annual […]
Supsa Terminal
Located on the Black Sea Coast of Georgia, in Lanchkhuti district Supsa terminal provides storage capacity for crude oil transported via the Western Route Export Pipeline (WREP, Baku-Supsa) before loading to oil tankers via offshore loading facilities. The crude is further shipped via tankers through the Bosphorus Straits to global markets. The terminal is a […]
Kulevi Terminal
The Kulevi Oil Terminal is one of SOCAR’s first and most important investments in Georgia. The history of the port of Redut – Kale, where the terminal is located, begins in 1804 with the construction of the Redut Fortress and later the port. Although the port lost its importance in the early twentieth century, in […]
Dubendi Terminal
Dubendi Oil Terminal, a structural unit of SOCAR’s Oil Pipeline Department, is located 45 km from Baku, in the North Absheron port of Pirallahi district, near the settlement of the same name. The Dubendi Oil Terminal was built and put into operation in 1971. Later, the terminal was upgraded and has been expanded at various […]
Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan
The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) Pipeline connects Sangachal Terminal on the Caspian Sea coast of Azerbaijan with Ceyhan Terminal on the Mediterranean coast of Türkiye. Its transportation capacity is 1.2 million barrels (mmbbl) per day. The construction of the BTC pipeline named in honour of the National Leader Heydar Aliyev began in April 2003 and was completed […]
Baku‐Supsa
One of the pipelines transporting Azerbaijani oil to the world market is the Western Route Export Pipeline or Baku-Supsa pipeline, which starts in Sangachal Terminal and ends in Georgian Supsa Terminal. This has been an integral part of Azerbaijan’s oil export system created after the signing of the Contract of the Century. The pipeline transports […]
Baku‐Novorossiysk
After the signing of the Contract of the Century in 1994, one of the challenges was the export of crude oil to world markets. For this purpose, as a result of negotiations with neighbouring Russia and Georgia, agreements were signed on the transportation of oil from the ACG field (Azeri, Chirag and Gunashli fields) to […]
Domestic Pipelines
The primary mission of SOCAR’s Oil Pipelines Department (OPD) is to ensure the safe and efficient receipt, storage, and transportation of crud Operating in various forms since 1970, the OPD was incorporated into SOCAR’s Integrated Planning, Optimization and Logistics (IPOL) business segment in 2023, pursuant to a decision of SOCAR’s Supervisory Board. The key facilities […]