Managing BTC pipeline operations across the Caspian, from field to market.
Moving oil and gas from the Caspian Sea to Europe is not a simple operation. It involves thousands of kilometres of pipeline, multiple sovereign territories, dozens of joint-venture partners, and a commercial layer that has to work perfectly every single day.
EnergySys sits at the heart of that operation across two of the region’s most significant pipelines.
Challenge: two pipelines, two systems, one standard of accuracy
The BTC pipeline runs 1,768 kilometres from Baku in Azerbaijan, through Georgia, and on to the Turkish Mediterranean port of Ceyhan. It transports over one million barrels of crude oil every day from the Caspian Sea to global markets.
Running alongside it, the South Caucasus Pipeline (SCP) carries gas 691 kilometres from Azerbaijan into Georgia, supplying partners and markets across the region.
Both pipelines operate as joint ventures. That means multiple partners, each with their own ownership stakes, their own reporting requirements, and their own expectations of accuracy. There is no room for approximation. Data needs to be right, on time, and traceable.
Managing the commercial and technical operations of either pipeline would be a significant undertaking. Managing both to the same standard demanded a platform flexible enough to handle very different operational models without requiring two entirely separate solutions.
Solution: COSMOS and SCOPE, built on the same platform
For the BTC crude oil pipeline, EnergySys provides the foundation for COSMOS, the commercial operations management system.
COSMOS handles the full commercial layer of the pipeline. That includes capacity and throughput management through nominations, hydrocarbon accounting, tariffing, marine scheduling, and liftings. It integrates with the IP21 data historian, retrieves live pricing data from Platts for daily blend price calculations, and connects through firewalls to an internet-facing web service for partner access.
Every barrel that moves through BTC, from field ownership through 1,768 kilometres of pipeline and into tanks and ships at Ceyhan, is governed through COSMOS on EnergySys.
For the SCP gas pipeline, EnergySys provides the foundation for SCOPE, the system that supports the core activities of the joint venture in controlling the technical operation of the pipeline.
SCOPE manages the provision of metered data to partners, accurately and on time. It handles hydrocarbon accounting volumes, nominations management, and both statutory and management reporting. Everything the joint venture needs to operate the pipeline and account to its partners runs through the platform.
Both systems are low-code and configured by the teams who run them. When operational requirements change, the people who understand the pipelines make the changes themselves.
Outcomes: two major pipelines, one reliable platform
Across both pipelines, EnergySys provides the commercial and operational backbone for some of the most complex pipeline infrastructure in the world.
- COSMOS manages nominations, hydrocarbon accounting, tariffing, marine scheduling, and liftings across the full 1,768km BTC crude oil pipeline.
- Live Platts pricing data feeds directly into daily blend price calculations, without manual intervention.
- IP21 integration and internet-facing partner access keep data flowing accurately across internal and external systems.
- SCOPE manages metered data provision, hydrocarbon accounting, nominations, and reporting across the 691km SCP gas pipeline.
- Both systems are maintained and configured by the operational teams who run them, without vendor dependency.
- Joint-venture partners across both pipelines receive accurate, timely, and traceable data as a matter of course.
The bottom line.
Two pipelines. Two system names. One platform and one consistent standard of accuracy across both.
EnergySys gives the teams running COSMOS and SCOPE the flexibility to configure and manage their own systems, while delivering the reliability and auditability that joint-venture operations across multiple sovereign territories demand.
When the data has to be right every day, the platform underneath it matters.
