How much has oil exports from the port of Aktau increased?

news-id-115513" style="display:inline;">In January-September, the volume of transportation of Kazakh oil from the port of Aktau for export amounted to 2 million 484.8 thousand tons. This is 864 thousand tons, or 53 percent, more compared to the same period last year.

In particular, the volume of oil transportation towards the port of Baku from the port of Aktau increased by 870 thousand tons and amounted to 990.2 thousand tons. 1 million 494.6 thousand tons of Kazakh oil were shipped towards the port of Makhachkala from the port of Aktau, which is 5.9 thousand tons less compared to the figure for the nine months of 2022.

Last year, the head of Kazakhstan ordered to increase the volume of oil transportation along the Trans-Caspian corridor. In accordance with this instruction, JSC NC KazMunayGas and the state oil company of the Azerbaijan Republic SOCAR entered into an agreement providing for the transportation of 1.5 million tons of oil per year from the Tengiz field in the direction of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline.