The BP-run Baku-Ceyhan pipeline from Azerbaijan to Turkey has reached its full capacity of 1 million barrels per day, the firm said on Thursday.
The pipeline, launched in May 2006, pumps crude from the giant Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli group of fields in the Caspian Sea to the Turkish Mediterranean port of Ceyhan.
The pipeline currently ships some 700,000 bpd of oil from the ACG fields, which have reserves estimated at 900 million tonnes (6.59 billion barrels) of oil.
Only two of the ACG fields, Azeri and Chirag, are already producing. Guneshli will be put on stream later this decade.
To ensure transportation of the field's increasing output BP is planning to expand the Baku-Ceyhan pipeline's capacity to 1.6 million bpd.
