Kazakhstan Seeks Capacity to Pipe Crude Oil to Germany
- KazTransOil wants 1.2m tons capacity in Druzhba link for 2023
- Russia’s Transneft has no requests yet from Kazakh producers
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Kazakhstan’s oil-pipeline operator sent a request to its Russian counterpart to send Kazakh crude via the Druzhba pipeline to Germany next year.
It could be a first step to get Kazakh oil flowing to German refineries as the country tries to find alternatives to Russian supply. While piped deliveries are exempt from European sanctions, Germany has pledged to wean itself off Russian crude by the end of this year following Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.