BOTAŞ

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Boru Hatlari ile Petrol Taşıma A.Ş.
legal form	Anonim Şirket
founding	1974
Seat	Ankara , Turkey
Website	www.botas.gov.tr

Boru Hatları ile Petrol Taşıma Anonim Şirketi , abbreviated to BOTAŞ , is a Turkish company, it is 100% state-owned.

Botaş operates in the oil and natural gas transportation and gas trading sectors. Botaş operates a natural gas pipeline network with a total length of approx. 4650 km and an oil pipeline network totaling 2297 km. In 2001 the company had a sales volume of 16.4 billion m³ of gas and transported a total of 276 million barrels of crude oil. Botaş employs over 2,300 people and the company is based in Ankara .

Botaş's largest project was the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline project. This line has a total length of 1730 km and runs through three countries. Botaş was one of six partners in the failed Nabucco pipeline project. BOTAŞ is, alongside Türkiye Petrolleri Anonim Ortaklığı (TPAO), the largest energy company in Turkey. The energy sector in Turkey is firmly in government hands.

In 2009 BOTAŞ was in the press several times because the remains of alleged victims of political murders from the 1990s were found on the company premises in Silopi .