| Photo Information |
| Copyright: Erol DAG (hayyam) (85) |
| Genre: Places |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2004-11-01 |
| Categories: Transportation |
| Exposure: f/2.8 |
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| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2006-12-15 10:38 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline (sometimes abbreviated as BTC pipeline) transports crude petroleum 1,776 km from the Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli oil field in the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean Sea. The total length of the pipeline in Azerbaijan is 440 km long, in Georgia it is 260 km long and in Turkey is 1076 km long. There are 8 pump stations through the pipeline route. It passes through Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan; Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia; and Ceyhan, a port on the south-eastern Mediterranean coast of Turkey, hence its name. It is the second longest oil pipeline in the world (the longest being the Druzhba pipeline from Russia to central Europe). First oil that was pumped from the Baku end of the pipeline on May 10, 2006 reached Ceyhan on May 28, 2006.
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