KazTransOil increases oil transportation
Published by Sara Simper,
Editorial Assistant
World Pipelines,
KazTransOil national oil transporter delivered 21.3 million t of oil in total through the main oil pipeline system in the first six months of this year, which is 1.3 million t more than in the same period last year, the company has recently reported.
The volume of oil transportation to the country’s refineries through the KazTransOil’s system of trunk oil pipelines decreased by 214 000 to 8.8 million t, with Atyrau Oil Refinery shipping 2.8 million t, PetroKazakhstan Oil Products and Pavlodar Petrochemical Plant – 2.7 million t, and JV Caspi Bitumen – 415 000 t.
The volume of oil transportation along the Atyrau-Samara section of the Uzen-Atyrau-Samara pipeline reached 4.9 million t, 713 000 tons more than in the first half of 2022, while the Kazakh section of the Tuimazy-Omsk-Novosibirsk 2 (TON-2) oil pipeline transported 5.4 million t of oil, which is 42 000 t more.
Transshipment of oil to the Atasu-Alashankou trunk pipeline decreased by 204 000 to 5.5 million t. In contrast, the Caspian Pipeline Consortium-K system received 1.1 million t of oil, 640 000 t more than in the first half of 2022.
The cargo turnover of oil through KazTransOil’s system of main oil pipelines increased by 79 million to 16.8 billion t-km. Meanwhile, the consolidated oil turnover of KazTransOil decreased by 196 million to 21.5 billion t-km.
The Kazakhstan-China Pipeline transported 9.2 million t of oil, 440 000 t less than in the first half of 2022. Oil cargo turnover totalled 8.3 billion t-km, 595 million more. The volume of oil transportation via the MunaiTas pipeline increased by 109 000 to 2.7 million t, with oil cargo turnover expanded by 44 million to 1.1 billion t-km. The transshipment volume of oil, petroleum products, and gas through the Batumi Oil Terminal decreased by 275 000 to 778 000 t.
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