Baku, August 6, AZERTAC
During the first half, the daily average export throughput of the SCP was 63.7 million cubic metres of gas per day, bp Azerbaijan has told AZERTAC.
In the first half of 2026, the SCPC spent around $41 million in operating expenditure and $19 million in capital expenditure in total.
The SCP has been operational since late 2006, transporting Shah Deniz gas to Azerbaijan, Georgia and Türkiye. The expanded section of the pipeline commenced commercial deliveries to Türkiye in June 2018 and to Europe in December 2020.
Effective 1 July 2026, operatorship of the BTC pipeline and of the common activities associated with both the BTC and South Caucasus Pipeline (SCP) systems was transferred from BP Exploration (Caspian Sea) Limited to SOCAR Midstream Operations LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of SOCAR.
The South Caucasus Pipeline Company (SCPC) shareholders are: bp (29.99%), SGC (21.02%), LUKOIL (19.99%), TPAO (19.00%) and NICO (10.00%).