Transit Volume of Kazakh Oil via Azerbaijan Reaches 4 Million Tons

Transit Volume of Kazakh Oil via Azerbaijan Reaches 4 Million Tons Transit Volume of Kazakh Oil via Azerbaijan Reaches 4 Million Tons https://innews.az/en/news/id-59434

SOCAR and KazMunayGas (KMG) have successfully continued the project for transporting Kazakh oil via Azerbaijan, bringing the transit volume to 4 million tons.

The 427th batch of Kazakh oil departed from the Aktau port on March 12 aboard the President Heydar Aliyev tanker and arrived at the Sangachal Terminal of Azertrans on March 13.

Of the total volume transported to date, 3.8 million tons account for oil from the Tengiz oil field, while 200 thousand tons originate from the Kashagan oil field.

The first batch of Tengiz oil was delivered from Aktau to Baku on March 23, 2023, while the first shipment of Kashagan oil arrived on January 27, 2025. Kazakh oil supplied from the Aktau port to the Sangachal terminal is subsequently transported to the Ceyhan Terminal via the Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan pipeline (BTC) and then shipped to global markets.

Within the project, the Azerbaijani side is represented by SOCAR’s subsidiary SOCAR Midstream Operations LLC.

Notes for Editors:

- In November 2022, SOCAR and KMG signed a Framework Agreement for the transit of 1.5 million tons of Tengiz oil per year via the BTC pipeline along the Aktau–Ceyhan route.

- In March 2024, SOCAR and KMG signed a Strategic Cooperation Memorandum on increasing annual transit volumes and on the purchase and sale of Kazakh oil.

- On January 15, 2025, SOCAR and KMG signed a Framework Agreement providing for the transit of an additional 240 thousand tons of Kashagan oil annually alongside the existing Tengiz volumes.

- The BTC pipeline transports Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli oil and Shah Deniz condensate from Azerbaijan, as well as crude oil and condensate volumes from other sources.

- The current throughput capacity of BTC is 1.2 million barrels per day, or 50 million tons per year.

- Since the commissioning of the 1,768 km-long BTC pipeline in June 2006 through the end of 2025, approximately 619 million tons (over 4.7 billion barrels) of crude oil have been transported via the pipeline and loaded onto 6,145 tankers at Ceyhan for delivery to world markets.