Kazakhstan’s oil exports to Germany via Russia’s Druzhba pipeline for January-July jumped by 38% year on year to 1.086 million metric tons (37,550 bpd), pipeline company Kaztransoil said on Friday.
Reuters used a barrels per ton ratio of 7.33.
Supplies through the Druzhba pipeline in July alone totalled 160,000 tons, unchanged from June and up 11,000 tons from the same month last year, the company said.
Kaztransoil said that oil exports via the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline in the first seven months of the year rose by 10% from the same period last year to 923,000 tons. July’s volumes reached 138,000 tons, down from 148,000 tons in June.
Kazakhstan sends crude by tanker across the Caspian Sea for export via the BTC, which crosses Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey. The route allows Kazakhstan, the world’s largest landlocked country, to bypass Russia with its commodity exports.
More than 80% of Kazakhstan’s oil is exported through another pipeline operated by the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC). That connects the Tengiz field in western Kazakhstan and a number of others with a marine terminal near Russia’s Black Sea port of Novorossiisk.