Transneft considers it realistic to increase oil supplies from Kazakhstan to Germany to 2.5 mln tonnes

MOSCOW. Oct 23 (Interfax) - Transneft considers it realistic to increase oil supplies from Kazakhstan to Germany via Russia to 2.5 million tonnes per year.

"There have been no specific detailed talks yet, but we have discussed this prospect preliminarily. It is realistic," Transneft President Nikolai Tokarev told journalists.

Since 2023, Kazakhstan has been supplying oil to Germany via the system of main oil pipelines of PJSC Transneft in the direction of the Adamowo-Zastawa oil delivery point. Initially, KazMunayGas said that in 2025 Kazakhstan planned to ship 1.5 million tonnes of oil to Germany via the Druzhba pipeline. In 2024, the same amount - 1.5 million tonnes - was exported in this direction. Later, from KMG materials, it became known that in 2025 Kazakhstan plans to increase the amount of oil supplies to Germany to 2 million tonnes. At the same time, the head of KMG, Askat Khassenov, said in October that 1.7 million tonnes of oil will be shipped to Germany by the end of the year.

Kazakhstan regularly holds negotiations with Russia on increasing supplies of its oil to Germany via the Druzhba pipeline. According to Kazakh Energy Minister Yerlan Akkenzhenov, the technical possibility allows for increasing exports to 2.5 million tonnes per year.