{"id":226964,"date":"2025-06-30T15:44:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T15:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/226964\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T15:44:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T15:44:11","slug":"tco-sends-first-oil-to-germany-via-druzhba-pipeline-as-tengiz-output-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/226964\/","title":{"rendered":"TCO Sends First Oil to Germany via Druzhba Pipeline as Tengiz Output Grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>6\/30\/2025<\/p>\n<p>(Reuters) \u2014 Kazakhstan&#8217;s Tengizchevroil (TCO) exported its first oil to Germany last month via Russia&#8217;s Druzhba <a href=\"\" id=\"2\" class=\"context-ad\" alt=\"pipeline\">pipeline<\/a>, supplying 100,000 metric tons, two industry sources told Reuters, as the venture ramps up production.<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/pgjonline.com\/media\/4162\/piperefine_1200.jpg\" class=\"image-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n            <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/piperefine_1200.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n        <\/a><\/p>\n<p>TCO is owned by Chevron with a 50% stake, ExxonMobil with 25%, KazMunayGaz with 20%, and Lukoil with 5%. It operates Kazakhstan&#8217;s largest oilfield, Tengiz.<\/p>\n<p>The consortium declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>Kazakhstan&#8217;s main oil exporting channel goes via the Caspian Pipeline Consortium, which ships around 80% of the country&#8217;s oil via Russia&#8217;s Black Sea terminal. But the world&#8217;s largest land-locked country is striving to diversify its exporting routes.<\/p>\n<p>Chevron said in January it had begun a $48 billion expansion of Tengiz, which is one of the world&#8217;s deepest and most complex fields due to high sulphur levels and harsh weather conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Output at the field in January to May reached 15.9 million tons, according to KazMunayGaz.<\/p>\n<p>Kazakhstan&#8217;s oil exports to Germany via the Soviet-built Druzhba (Friendship) <a href=\"\" id=\"1\" class=\"context-ad\" alt=\"pipeline\">pipeline<\/a>, are forecast to rise this year to 2 million tons, or around 40,000 barrels per day, from 1.5 million tons in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Kazakhstan has given its oil, supplied via Russia, the name KEBCO (Kazakhstan Export Blend Crude Oil) to distinguish it from Russia&#8217;s Western-sanctioned Urals blend.<\/p>\n<p>    Related News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"6\/30\/2025 (Reuters) \u2014 Kazakhstan&#8217;s Tengizchevroil (TCO) exported its first oil to Germany last month via Russia&#8217;s Druzhba pipeline,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[89408,22117,11968,2000,299,6085,1824,89407,89403,89406,89405,89409,89404],"class_list":{"0":"post-226964","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-caspian-pipeline-consortium","9":"tag-chevron","10":"tag-druzhba-pipeline","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-exxonmobil","14":"tag-germany","15":"tag-germany-oil-imports","16":"tag-kazakhstan-oil-exports","17":"tag-kazmunaygaz","18":"tag-kebco-crude","19":"tag-kebco-vs-urals","20":"tag-tengizchevroil"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114773089629208893","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}