Kazakh oil transporter to triple Russian oil supply to Uzbekistan in 2024
Kazakhstan’s national oil transporter KazTransOil JLC is planning to supply 500,000 mt of Russian crude oil to Uzbekistan in 2024.
PHOTO: An oil tank operated by KazTransOil. KazTransoil
KazTransOil JLC has delivered about 104,000 mt of Russian crude oil to Uzbekistan in the first 10 months of this year, and plans to increase this to 154,000 mt by the end of 2023.
Uzbekistan’s largest private oil company Sanoat Energetika Guruhi “submitted an application for 2024 for the transit of 500 thousand tons [500,000 mt] of Russian oil to Uzbekistan with the possibility of increasing to 1 million mt,” KazTransOil JLC’s director of the transportation department Abai Beisembayev said.
The company started pumping Russian oil to Uzbekistan in 2017 through its 5,400 km main oil pipeline in Kazakhstan. The initial supply was 67,900 mt of Russian crude, which decreased to 36,000 mt in 2018. “In 2019-2022 there was no transit of Russian oil through Kazakhstan to Uzbekistan,” it further added.
The company also announced that it will increase the volume of Kazakh oil transported to Germany through trunk oil pipelines of Transneft PJSC by 54% in November, from 100,000 mt to 154,000 mt.
Currently, the company has a technical capacity to supply 1.2 million mt of Kazakh oil/year to Germany, it further added. The pipeline operator delivered 690,000 mt of Kazakh oil to Germany in the first 10 months of this year, it said earlier.
By Aparupa Mazumder
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