The start of oil exports scheduled for February 2023 in the amount of 120,000 t was suspended after the earthquakes in Turkey
In the first quarter of 2023, KazTransOil JSC shipped 19,221 tons of oil from the Tengiz field for export from the port of Aktau in the direction of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline, according to KazTransOil.
In particular, the first batch of oil in the mass of 9,959 tons was shipped on March 23 from the port of Aktau by the President Heydar Aliev tanker. The second batch of oil in the mass of 9,262 tons was shipped on March 27 by the tanker Shusha.
In early February, after the earthquakes in Turkey, KazTransOil JSC received a notice of force majeure due to the temporary suspension of loading operations at the Ceyhan sea terminal. In this regard, the start of oil exports from the port of Aktau to Baku with further transportation through the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline, scheduled for February 2023 in the amount of 120,000 tons, was suspended.
In 2022, the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev, ordered to increase the transportation of oil along the Trans-Caspian corridor. In accordance with this, JSC NC KazMunayGas and the state oil company of the Republic of Azerbaijan SOCAR signed an agreement providing for the transportation of 1.5 million tons of oil from the Tengiz field per year in the direction of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline.
KazTransOil JSC is an oil pipeline company of the Republic of Kazakhstan that provides services for the transportation of oil to the domestic market, for transit and for export. It is a part of JSC NC KazMunayGas. The total length of the main oil pipelines of KazTransOil JSC is 5.4 km. Oil transportation via trunk pipelines is provided by 36 oil pumping stations, 67 oil heating furnaces, a tank farm for oil storage with a total volume of 1.4 thousand cbm. Transshipment of oil is provided by 4 draining and filling railway overpasses, appropriate equipment for loading oil into tankers installed at 2 operating berths of the Aktau sea oil terminal.