Offshore staff

BP, operator of the Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline, announced that the first cargo of oil transported through the pipeline from Azerbaijan has been exported from the Ceyhan marine terminal on the Turkish Mediterranean coast.

A cargo of around 600,000 bbl crude oil from Azerbaijan was loaded on to the BP tanker,British Hawthorn.

The loading marks the start of the export of Azerbaijan's oil via the BTC oil pipeline to world markets, without passing through the crowded Turkish straits.

6/13/06