Azerbaijan’s oil and gas export routes

Recent fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces is raising concern over the safety of strategic pipelines that carry Azerbaijan’s oil and gas to international energy markets


Oil pipeline	Gas pipeline

CRIMEA
Black Sea
RUSSIA
Novorossiysk
Northern Route
Caspian Sea
GEORGIA
Supsa
Tbilisi
SCP
Baku
TANAP
TURKEY
Erzurum
To Europe
Ceyhan
BTC
ARMENIA
AZ.
Nagorno-Karabakh and extended conflict zone
AZERBAIJAN
ACG
Shah Deniz
CYPRUS
SYRIA
IRAQ
IRAN

200km 125 miles


Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) crude oil pipeline: Azerbaijan’s main oil artery to world markets delivers Azeri Light crude – mainly from Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli (ACG) field – through Georgia to Turkey’s Mediterranean port of Ceyhan for export via tankers. Throughput: 600,000 barrels per day (80 percent of Azeri oil exports)

South Caucasus Pipeline (SCP)
Forms eastern section of Southern Gas Corridor. Transports Azeri gas from offshore Shah Deniz field to Turkey and Europe via Trans Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline (TANAP), providing alternative to Russian natural gas supplies. Capacity: Up to 25 billion cubic metres of gas per year


Sources: Reuters, S&P Global Platts
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