“Azerbaijan intends to use the Baku–Supsa Pipeline, which is currently not working,” – the Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said during a joint press point with the Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili.
“We intend to use the Baku-Supsa oil pipeline, which is now inactive but which we intend to reactivate,” - Aliyev said.
The Baku-Supsa Pipeline, which is one of the strategic facilities passing through Georgia, has stopped carrying oil since May.
The Azerbaijani side made a decision to reduce oil transportation through Georgia and then the Black Sea in March, and the operation of the Baku-Supsa Pipeline actually stopped in April. Instead, crude oil was completely diverted to the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline, through which tankers are filled in the Mediterranean port of Ceyhan.
The length of the Baku-Supsa Pipeline itself is 830 kilometers and it was put into operation in 1999. In 2021, 4.2 million tons of crude oil were transported through it. The official name of the pipeline is WREP, and it is owned by a consortium of international companies. These companies are - BP (30.4%); SOCAR (25%); MOL (9.6%); INPEX (9.3%); Equinor (7.3%); ExxonMobil (6.8%); TPAO (5.7%); ITOCHU (3.6%); ONGC Videsh Limited (2.31%).
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11/07/2025
