Azeri crude still being piped to Ceyhan -BP Azerbaijan

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The company did not specify how many more days it could continue pumping before storage was filled

Nailia Bagirova, Reuters News

February 9, 2023

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BAKU - Azeri crude oil exports from Turkey’s Ceyhan port remain halted after sustaining earthquake damage, BP Azerbaijan said on Thursday, while Azeri crude oil continued to flow there via a pipeline.

The company did not specify how many more days it could continue pumping before storage was filled, adding in a response to a Reuters request for comment that it was evaluating the situation.

Sources previously told Reuters that there were 4 days worth of storage capacity at the Sangachal terminal in Azerbaijan once Ceyhan hits its maximum.

Estimates over when exports could resume varied widely, a shipping agent familiar with the situation said on Thursday, adding that the timeframe for a restart ranged from another 2 days up to 10 days.

(Reporting by Nailia Bagirova and Julia Payne; writing by Noah Browning; editing by Toby Chopra)

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