• receives hydrocarbons from offshore assets in the Caspian Sea via the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline
  
• marine oil terminal situated at the port of Ceyhan in the Turkish Mediterranean
  
• Seven crude oil storage tanks - one million barrels each - with floating roofs (100 meters in diameter and 20 meters high)
  
• Crude export jetty - 2.6km in length - with two berths for simultaneous loading of two tankers of up to 300,000 deadweight tonnes each
  
• Annual export capacity - 50 million tonnes of oil
  

Investigations by CREA and CSD suggest that European entities may have been importing Russian oil products that are either mixed or re-exported from Turkish storage terminals. An example cited is the Toros Ceyhan oil terminal, which received 26,923 tonnes of gasoil from Novorossiysk in May 2023 and subsequently shipped a similar volume to Greece's MOH Corinth refinery. This trade exploits legal loopholes, allowing blended Russian oil products to enter the EU.¹⁾