Kazakhstan plans to carry out a test supply of 7 thousand tons of oil to the port of Baku in Azerbaijan.
“Kaztransoyil AO” In March, it plans to produce a test shipment of 7 thousand tons of oil from the Aktau port of the Kashagan deposit for further delivery in the direction of the port of the Baku. Inpex North Caspian Sea, Ltd, “the company said In a statement by the Kazakh company.
The operation of the Caspian Magistral Oil pipeline, which ensures the shipment of oil to the port of Novorossiysk on the Black Sea coast of Russia, has been stopped several times against the backdrop of an ongoing armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine. About 80 percent of Kazakhstani oil exported to Europe,
is pumped through this oil pipeline.
Earlier, the President of Kazakhstan Kasym-Zhomart Tokaev said that the transportation of oil through the Transkaspian route will be brought up to 20 million tons per year.