As has been reported, on January 12 seven cisterns with oil derailed at Pirsaat station in Azerbaijan's Hajigabul region, 67 km away from Baku. Three cisterns turned over. The spilled oil caused fire and about 180 tons of oil has burnt down.
Who owned the oil and who was the sender? Azerbaijan State Railway Department reported that oil was loaded into the cisterns at the Sangachal terminal and was bound for the Georgian port of Batumi. The train has 40 cisterns weighing 60 tons each.
The Sangachal coastal terminal (should not be confused with the Sangachal terminal of BP company) used to belong to the private company Azpetrol. Since the end of 2005 the terminal is managed by the CrossCaspian joint company, which specializes in transportation of oil and oil product s via the Caspian Sea as well as logistics of the South Caucasus Transport Corridor.
At present crude oil is delivered to the Sangachal terminal from three countries - Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. From Turkmenistan oil is further transported to the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline. Kazakhstan oil is transported to Batumi via the Sangachal terminal by railway. US ExxonMobil exports its oil extracted on Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli (ACG) field to the Georgian Batumi port by railway. During discussion of the BTC project the ExxonMobil administration calculated that the BTC is unprofitable company and decided not to join BTC Co as a shareholder. However, as soon as BTC started to work, the conditions for oil transportation for the US company became very "tough" and it had to choose railway.
At present one can just guess who owned that oil?-0--
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