Kazakhstan transports 1.4 mln tonnes of oil via BTC route in 2024, plans to increase shipments in 2025

ASTANA. Jan 22 (Interfax) - Kazakhstan plans to transit 1.5 million tonnes of oil via the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) route this year, the Kazakh Energy Ministry's press service told Interfax.

"The plan for 2025 via BTC remains at the same level as in 2024 - 1.5 million tonnes of oil," it said.

Oil shipments via this route totaled 1.4 million tonnes in 2024, it said.

It was previously reported that the 2024 plan was set at 1.5 million tonnes.

Energy Minister Almasadam Satkaliyev at the end of last year said that the country was looking into the possibility to boost oil supplies from 1.5 million tonnes to 20 million tonnes per year along the BTC route.

Kazakhstan began deliveries via BTC in 2023 in order to diversify oil export routes. The State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) and KazMunayGas signed an agreement to transport 1.5 million tonnes of domestic oil per year via the pipeline. Exports began in April 2023.