BAKU, Azerbaijan, January 18. Kazakhstan is considering the possibility of transporting oil via the Baku-Supsa oil pipeline, the Ministry of Energy of Kazakhstan told Trend.
"The issue of considering the possibility of transporting Kazakh oil via the Baku-Supsa oil pipeline in the amount of up to 3 million tons per year is being discussed with the Azerbaijani side," the ministry said.
Meanwhile, in 2023, Kazakhstan transported 1.39 million tons of oil through Baku, and all this oil went through the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline.
Back in 2022, Azerbaijan offered Kazakhstan the use of the Baku-Supsa pipeline and could allocate a share of up to 1.5 million tons in the BTC pipeline to maintain the structure regarding the BTC Blend.
The capacity of Baku-Supsa is 5-6 million tons of oil per year.