details
- Name
- British Petroleum Georgia (BP)
- Native name
- BP Georgia
- Address
- 38a, Saburtalo street
- Zipcode
- 0177
- City
- Tbilisi
- Country
- Georgia
- Phone
- 995 32 593400; 995 32 593601
- Centre Website
- https://www.bp.com/ka_ge/georgia/home.html
organisation profile
BP is operating in Georgia since 1996. The business is primarily about the safe transportation and delivery of energy, while operating in a manner which is truly sustainable. BP operates three major oil and gas pipelines through Georgia as well as an aviation fueling business at Tbilisi airport. The Western Route Export Pipeline (WREP), also known as the Baku-Supsa pipeline, which was the first investment in Georgia, has operated safely and successfully since 1999. It has brought valuable transit fee revenues to Georgia, transporting an average of 155,000 barrels of Caspian oil to global markets each day. To safeguard the integrity of the pipeline and facilities, operations were suspended in 2006 to perform necessary maintenance and to reroute a section of the pipeline where a risk of landslide was detected. A full re-commissioning program has already been initiated and the pipeline will be restarted when the integrity of the pipeline has been satisfactorily tested. The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline began fully operating in June 2006, delivering its first tanker of oil to global markets. With a total construction cost of $4 billion, the BTC pipeline is the first direct transportation link between the Caspian and the Mediterranean seas. At full capacity, it can deliver one million barrels of oil to market, generating important revenues for the Georgian government for decades to come.
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edmo metadata
- EDMO record id
- 1764
- Collating centre
- Iv.Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Centre of Relations with UNESCO Oceanological Research Centre and GeoDNA (UNESCO) (TSU-DNA)
- Latest update
- 11 September 2018 2:37:12 PM