Kazakhstan resumes oil transportation via BTC pipeline

ASTANA. KAZINFORM - Kazakhstan has resumed the transportation of oil via the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline, Azerbaijan's Energy Ministry reports.

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According to the ministry, 90,000 tons of Kazakh oil was exported through Azerbaijan via the BTC pipeline in 2017.

Kazakhstan hasn't transported oil via the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline since the second half of 2015, Kazinform has learned from trend.az .

Earlier, the ministry's press service told Trend that in 2016, export of Kazakh oil through Azerbaijan wasn't carried out via any of the existing routes - neither via the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline, nor via the Baku-Supsa pipeline and railway.