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bp Azerbaijan

The foreign operator of the Caspian export system's oil line — the Azeri–Chirag–Deepwater Gunashli fields, the Sangachal terminal and the Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan pipeline — and a partner in the gas line and its onward pipelines.

Active Private

Assessed as of
2026-06
Last reviewed
2026-10-29

AssessmentModerate confidence

No financials and no forecasts. A record carries what a published source states about an organisation, its published facilities and its dated claims, with each claim kept apart by kind. Nothing here is a view on any company.

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Locator — land outline from Natural Earth 110m (public domain); 1 place this record names, at the coordinates the module already publishes. No routes, boundaries, control or activity are drawn.

What this organisation is

bp has operated Azerbaijan's principal offshore oil fields and the Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan pipeline since the corridor was built, and operates the Sangachal terminal from which both the oil line and the gas line leave. It is a shareholder in the Shah Deniz field and in the South Caucasus Pipeline, whose technical operation passed to SOCAR's midstream arm under the owners' 2013 agreement, and in the Trans-Anatolian pipeline. The module's logistics record carries the company's own disclosures as the source for the corridor's 2008 interruption and its routine maintenance outages, which the record notes are not by themselves a security signal.

The operator whose published disclosures are the module's primary source on the state of the oil line, and the reason the corridor's security has been a Western commercial interest since 2006 rather than only a regional one.

Confidence: Moderate As of 2026-06Reviewed 2026-10-29

Official name: BP Exploration (Caspian Sea) Limited and affiliated bp companies in Azerbaijan

Published facilities

Each is a marker the module already publishes; the relationship is this record’s own claim, with its own grade and source.

Systems it belongs to

SystemCaspian energy export

Supply systems it runs on

LogisticsCaspian energy export — the westward pipeline system

Commodities and outputs

Crude oil (Azerbaijan) · Natural gas (Shah Deniz / Southern Gas Corridor)

Owners, controllers and arrangements

ProfileAzerbaijan

Watch questions bearing on it

What remains unknown

  • No dated claim ladder is authored; the company's production and export disclosures were not read for figures in this pass, and the module's standing rule keeps throughput by segment out of the record in any case.
  • Shareholdings in the fields and pipelines have changed over time and are not carried as percentages here.
Sensitivity: public-contextual Confidence: Moderate Sources: bp Azerbaijan pipeline and project disclosures↗ · European Union institutional texts and Council conclusions · Established international media reporting Methodology Corrections

Assessed as of — 2026-06 Last reviewed — 2026-10-29