All facilities are operating normally, added the company.
BTC mainly transports Azerbaijani Light oil produced at the Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli block of oil and gas fields in the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea.
Aside from the Azerbaijani oil, the pipeline transports oil from Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan.
However, Kazakhstan suspended the transit pumping of its oil via BTC in February.
The South Caucasus Pipeline exports about 6.6 billion cubic meters of gas per year from Azerbaijan’s largest Shah Deniz field.
A coup attempt was launched in Turkey late on July 15 by a group of Turkish military servicemen.
There were reports saying that Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport was seized.
Later, Turkish officials announced that the attempt was foiled.
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