ASTANA, Kazakhstan, March 15. The volume of oil transportation from Kazakhstan's Tengiz field through the territory of Azerbaijan (in the direction of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline) amounted to 232,000 from January through February 2024, KazTransOil JSC (Kazakhstan's national operator of the main oil pipeline) told Trend.
"KazTransOil JSC transported 232,000 tons of Kazakh oil from the Tengiz field to the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline from January through February 2024. During this period, 331,000 tons of oil were shipped from the port of Aktau towards the port of Makhachkala," the company said.
To note, at the end of 2023, the loading of oil into tankers in the port of Aktau using the facilities of KazTransOil JSC amounted to 3.376 million tons, including 1.057 million tons in the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan direction.
Meanwhile, in 2022, President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev issued an order in 2022 to enhance the amount of oil transported through the Trans-Caspian corridor. The State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) and KazMunayGas JSC, the country's oil and gas company, signed an agreement allowing for the transportation of up to 1.5 million tons of oil annually from the Tengiz field in the direction of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline in compliance with this directive.
In addition, during the visit of President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev to Azerbaijan on March 11-12, KazMunayGas and SOCAR signed an agreement to increase the volume of oil transported via the BTC to 2.2 million tons per year.