Kazakhstan plans to sell 1.5 million tons of oil through BTC in 2025

The volume of Kazakh oil transit through the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline will amount to 1.5 million tons in 2025, the Energy Ministry of Kazakhstan said, Report informs via Interfax-Kazakhstan.

"In 2024, Kazakh oil transit through BTC amounted to 1.4 million tons, with a target of 1.5 million tons. The plan for 2025 via BTC remains at the 2024 level - 1.5 million tons of oil," the ministry said.

As previously reported, in 2023, more than 1 million tons of Kazakh oil was sent from the port of Aktau to the BTC.

In 2022, KazMunayGas and SOCAR signed a five-year agreement for oil transit along the Aktau-Baku-Ceyhan route with an annual volume of 1.5 million tons.

At the end of last year, Kazakhstan's Energy Minister Almassadam Satkaliyev said that Kazakhstan was exploring the possibility of increasing oil supplies via the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan route from 1.5 million tons to 20 million tons.