Baku - Tbilisi - Ceyhan Oil Pipeline & South Caucasus Gas Export Pipeline

PROJECT NAME Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Oil Pipeline & South Caucasus Gas Export Pipeline

LOCATION Azerbaijan

CLIENT Baku - Tbilisi - Ceyhan Pipeline Co. Ltd. (BTC) & South Caucasus Pipeline Co. (SCP)

SCOPE Engineering, Procurement, Construction & Commissioning

DURATION BTC 37 Months, SCP 19 Months

DATE OF COMPLETION March 2006

Construction and Commissioning of 886 km crude oil and gas pipeline.

The principal components of the Pipeline System are:

443 km 42” diameter high pressure pipeline API 5L Gr X-70 SAW . from Sangachal Terminal to a tie-in point with the Georgian section of the pipeline near the Azerbaijan – Georgia border.
443 km 42” diameter high pressure pipeline API 5L Gr X-70 SAW laid in parallel to the Baku – Tbilisi – Ceyhan (BTC) Oil Pipeline;
24 nos. powered block valve stations
3 nos. check valve stations;

886 km crude oil and gas pipeline

MORE INFORMATION

2 nos. pigging facility (launcher) at pump station in Sangachal
4 nos. pigging facilities (2 nos. Launcher/2 nos. Receiver) at Intermediate Pigging Stations
Gas off-take for pump station A-2
12 nos. major river crossings by open cut method, 1 no. 400 m river crossing by microtunneling
7 nos. 7.8km crossings by horizontal directional drilling
21 nos. thrust boring crossings, and an excess of 1,388 miscellaneous crossings including canals, above ground and underground foreign services, roads, tracks, streams, overhead lines, small rivers and seismic fault areas