/KASE, September 8, 2023/ – KazTransOil JSC (Astana), whose shares are
officially listed on Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE), has provided KASE with
the following press release dated September 8, 2023:
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The volume of transportation of Kazakh oil from the port of Aktau for export in 8
months of 2023 amounted to 2 million 164 thousand tons, which is 759 thousand
tons, or 54% more compared to the same period of last year, including 520
thousand tons from the Tengiz field, 252 thousand tons from the Dunga field ,
1 million 385 thousand tons from the fields of the Buzachi Peninsula and 7 thousand
tons from the Kashagan field.
The increase in the volume of transportation of Kazakh oil for export from the port
of Aktau is due to an increase in the volume of raw materials shipped towards the
port of Baku, from 69 thousand tons to 838 thousand tons, which is 12 times more
than in the same period in 2022. In addition, in the reporting period, 1 million 327
thousand tons of oil were shipped from the port of Aktau towards the port of
Makhachkala.
In 2022, the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev
ordered to increase the volume of oil transportation along the Trans-Caspian
corridor. In accordance with this order, NC KazMunayGas JSC and SOCAR state
oil company of the Republic of Azerbaijan entered into an agreement providing for
the transportation of 1.5 million tons of oil per year from the Tengiz field in the
direction of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline.
unquote
The complete press release is available on:
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https://kase.kz/files/emitters/KZTO/kzto_reliz_080923_kz.pdf – in Kazakh;
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https://kase.kz/files/emitters/KZTO/kzto_relizs_080923.pdf – in Russian;
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https://kase.kz/files/emitters/KZTO/kzto_reliz_080923_en.pdf – in English.
[2023-09-08]