BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 27. The volume of oil trunk pipelines and sea transportation in Kazakhstan in the nine months of 2022 decreased by 1.2 percent and amounted to 55.08 million tons compared to the same period of the last year, Trend reports citing Kazakhstan’s KazMunayGas National Company (KMG).
The volume of oil transportation through trunk pipelines slightly increased by 0.4 percent and amounted to 48.1 million tons. There was a change in the volume of oil transportation by directions, namely in the growth of pipelines volumes in the direction of Kazakhstan’s refineries to ensure the production of required oil products volumes in the domestic market. At the same time, export volumes of oil transportation through KazTransOil decreased due to natural decline in oil production at mature fields and also due to the oil redistribution by shippers to the domestic market and to the pipeline of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium.
Compared to the same period last year, the total volume of oil transportation by sea decreased by 10.8 percent to 6.8 million tons, mainly affected by lower oil transportation volumes in Mediterranean Sea due to the growth of oil supply to the domestic market, which thereby decreased export volumes by Kazakh oil shippers.
In turn, sales volumes of KMG's own produced oil and gas condensate for the nine months of 2022 increased by 1.1 percent and amounted to 16.3 million tons, of which 60.5 percent was exported.
Supplies of own produced oil and gas condensate volumes to the domestic market amounted to 6.4 million tons, including deliveries of crude oil from operating assets (Ozenmunaigas, Embamunaigas, Kazakhturkmunai and Urikhtau Operating) in the amount of 3.7 million tons to Atyrau, Shymkent and Pavlodar refineries for further oil refining and sales of oil products.