Shipment of Kazakh oil from Ceyhan to Romania has begun

April 23, 2023 | 22:18 |7721

The shipment of Kazakh oil from the Turkish port of Ceyhan in the direction of Romania has begun, the press service of KazMunayGas reported.

The first batch of oil with a volume of 80,000 tons will proceed to the Romanian port of Constanta with unloading for the Petromidia refinery.

A five-year agreement on the transit of oil along the Aktau-Baku-Ceyhan route in an annual volume of 1.5 million tons was signed between JSC NC KazMunayGas and Azerbaijan's SOCAR at the end of the last year.

In March of this year, shipments of Kazakh oil began in the Aktau-Baku direction. The Kazakh and Azerbaijani fleets are involved in the transportation on a parity basis. As of April 20, 86,000 tons of oil have been shipped from the Aktau port.

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