Kazakh infrastructure company KazTransOil (KTO) has shipped a cargo of nearly 10,000 mt of Tengiz crude across the Caspian Sea for transit through the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline, with Tengiz shipments through the route expected to rise to 125,000 mt in April.
The KTO said 9,959 mt of Tengiz crude had been sent from the port of Aktau to Baku for onward shipment through the BTC pipeline on the Azeri tanker Heydar Aliyev, with a second shipment due by the end of March. "By the end of March, another 10,000 mt of Tengiz oil will be shipped via this route. The planned [volume] of oil shipments in the BTC direction for April 2023 is 125,000 mt," KTO said, noting that shipments via the route were disrupted in February by the Turkish-Syrian earthquake.
As previously reported by Caucasus Watch, British Foreign Secretary James Cleverley said during a visit to Kazakhstan that the UK would help Kazakhstan develop export routes that bypass Russia. He also signed a memorandum on the supply of key minerals.
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