State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) plans to ship from the port Supsa, Georgia eight batches of Azeri Lights oil in the framework of the Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli field development project. So far, five batches have been shipped from Supsa: February and June batches to ‘Eni’ /Italy/, March - to Shell /UK-Holland/, May – to Glencore /Switzerland/, and August – to Vitol Broking /Switzerland/.

Three more batches of oil, according to SOCAR, will be shipped before the end of this year: the sixth one is planned to be shipped in late August, the seventh – in late November, and the eighth – in late December.

Profitable oil is distributed amongst the project’s contractors depending on their shares.