[1] A contract on the transportation of Azeri oil via Russia to the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk was signed on 18 February 1996.

[2] On 6 December 2006, after dispute over natural gas supplies from Russia, Azerbaijan announced that it will stop the exports of Azeri oil through the Baku–Novorossiysk pipeline starting on 1 January 2007.

[4] SOCAR temporarily stopped oil supplies through the pipeline in February 2008 due to a pricing disagreement with Transneft.

[7] In October 2020, according to Azerbaijani sources, the pipeline was the target of armed attacks by Armenian forces.

[14] The diameter of the pipeline is 530 millimetres (21 in) and the capacity of annual transfer is equal to 5 million tons[2][4] or 105,000 barrels per day.