BP Azerbaijan declares force majeure on crude loadings from Turkey's Ceyhan port, sources say

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Feb 8 (Reuters) - BP Azerbaijan has declared force majeure on loadings of Azeri crude from the Turkish port of Ceyhan, after a series of earthquakes on Monday, two trade sources said on Wednesday. BP Azerbaijan, which operates the Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline, declined to comment on the force majeure.


The pipeline is working but loadings from of Azeri crude are not being shipped from the BTC terminal in Ceyhan, a company spokesperson said.
(Reporting by Julia Payne and Ahmad Ghaddar, Editing by Louise Heavens)

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