BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 1. Kazakhstan is ready
to increase the volume of its oil supplies via the
Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline, Kazakhstan’s Minister of
Energy, Yerlan Akkenzhenov, told reporters on the sidelines of Baku
Energy Week, Trend
reports.
“Currently, 1.5 million tons of oil per year are supplied via
BTC. We can increase the volume to 2.2 million tons per year, as
stipulated by the protocol, and potentially even more,” the
minister said.
Akkenzhenov noted that Kazakhstan is considering all available
routes for the transportation of its oil.
“However, no official negotiations regarding oil supplies via
the Baku-Supsa route have been conducted so far,” the minister
added.
