Azerbaijan transports nearly 21 bcm of gas in first half of 2026

Azerbaijan transported 20.79 billion cubic metres (bcm) of natural gas through its main pipelines in the first half of 2026, up 2.6% from the same period a year earlier, according to the State Statistics Committee.

The committee said 55% of the total gas volume was transported via the Baku–Tbilisi–Erzurum (South Caucasus) gas pipeline, which carried 11.44 bcm during the January–June period, marking a 1.8% year-on-year increase, Caliber.Az reports.

Meanwhile, crude oil transportation through Azerbaijan's main oil pipelines fell 10.8% year-on-year to 16.52 million tonnes.

Of that total, 12.7 million tonnes, or 76.9%, were transported via the Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline, down 8.8% from a year earlier.

The committee said 82.3% of the oil transported through the BTC pipeline, or 10.45 million tonnes, was produced in Azerbaijan, while the remaining 17.7%, or 2.25 million tonnes, was imported from Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan.

By Bakhtiyar Abbasov