BAKU. Oct 7 (Interfax) - The Armenian army has fired missiles at the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline, the Azerbaijani Prosecutor General's Office said in a statement.
"At 9 p.m. Baku time on October 6, the Armenian Armed Forces fired missiles at a section of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline in the Yevlakh district. Resolute measures taken by the Azerbaijani army put an end to the terrorist attempt," the statement said.
The Armenian Defense Ministry denied Azerbaijan's report alleging the attack on Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline.
"The statement of the Azerbaijani side, which alleges the attempt to strike on the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline, is brazen lies," Armenian Defense Ministry press secretary Shushan Stepanyan said on Facebook.
The Armenian side has repeatedly said that it does not target oil and gas infrastructure, she said.
"However, all military sites and targets where fire upon Artsakh [the Armenian name of Karabakh] will be coming from will be destroyed irrespective of their location," Stepanyan said.
The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline transports oil from the Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli (ACG) field, condensate from the Shah Deniz field, and oil produced by the SOCAR company. It also transports oil from Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, and Russia.
The pipeline is 1,768 kilometers long, including 443 kilometers in Azerbaijan, 249 in Georgia, and 1,076 in Turkey. The pipeline's capacity exceeds 50 million tonnes of oil per year.
The project involves BP (30.1%); SOCAR (25%); MOL (8.9%); Equinor (8.71%); TPAO (6.53%); ENI (5%); Itochu (3.4%); ExxonMobil (2.5%); INPEX (2.5%), Total (5%) and ONGC (2.36%).