Oil shipments through the Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan pipeline (BTC) declined by nearly 10% in the first quarter of 2026.

Kazakhstan plans to ship 1.7 million tons of oil through the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline in 2025, with increasing interest from both Kazakh and international energy companies, according to Energy Minister Yerlan Akkenzhenov.

In the first quarter of 2025, BTC Co. spent $32 million in operating expenditure and $13 million in capital expenditure.

The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) has commenced the transit of crude oil from Kazakhstan's Kashagan field through the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline.

Since the BTC pipeline's inception in June 2006, it has transported approximately 4.4 billion barrels (about 583 million tons) of crude oil to global markets by the end of September 2024,.

Azerbaijan's main pipelines transported more than 28.86 million tons of oil from January to September 2024.

Kazakhstan exported 0.9 million tons of oil through the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline in the first eight months of 2024.

The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline transported over 3.2 million tons of Turkmen and Kazakh oil from January to July 2024, marking a 10.5% increase compared to the same period in 2023.

Since the 1,768 km BTC pipeline was commissioned in June 2006 till the end of June 2024, it carried a total of over 4.3 billion barrels (about 576 million tons) of crude oil loaded on 5,707 tankers and sent to world markets, News.Az reports citing bp Azerbaijan.