(Adds detail from BOTAS statement)
Feb 13 (Reuters) - The Nordlotus sailed from Turkey's
Ceyhan oil export hub loaded with Azeri crude on Monday, the
first such shipment since earthquakes hit the region on Feb. 6,
ship-tracking data showed and a trading source said.
The tanker carried 682,500 barrels of oil and began loading
on Feb. 12, Turkish state energy company BOTAS said in a
statement on Monday.
The Alfa Baltica was also shown at a jetty at the Botas
Ceyhan oil terminal on Monday and was loading Azeri crude, the
trade source said.
The earthquakes that struck Turkey and Syria halted
operations at Ceyhan, which receives crude supplies from
northern Iraq and Azerbaijan.
Loading of Azeri oil at Ceyhan resumed on Sunday, a
spokeswoman for BP said. The company declared force
majeure on loadings of Azeri crude from Ceyhan on Feb. 8.
The Iraqi crude oil pipeline to Ceyhan resumed flows late on
Feb. 7, when Iraqi crude was loaded for the first time since the
earthquakes.
(Reporting by Rowena Edwards and Can Sezer in Istanbul
Editing by David Goodman and Barbara Lewis)
