Azerbaijan has offered Kazakhstan to transport 5 million tons of Kazakh oil through the Baku-Supsa pipeline in 2023, three sources told Reuters. If an agreement is reached, it will probably be oil from the Kashagan field. Also, Azerbaijan, according to sources, offered to transport oil through the Black Sea ports in Georgia.
The Baku-Supsa oil pipeline is a pipeline for transporting Caspian oil from the Sangachal terminal near Baku in the Caspian Sea to the Georgian port of Supsa, located on the Black Sea coast.
Oil pumping through Baku-Supsa was stopped in the spring of 2022. All Azerbaijani oil is now exported via the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline. For Kazakhstan, the main export route is the Caspian Pipeline Consortium, ending at the Russian marine terminal near Novorossiysk.
BTC is a pipeline designed to transport Caspian oil to the Turkish port of Ceyhan, located on the Mediterranean coast. The recoverable reserves of Kashagan are approximately 9-13 billion barrels (1-2 billion tons) of oil, informs operating company North Caspian Operating Company.
Kazakhstan is trying to increase oil exports bypassing Russia, this year it plans to export 1.5 million tons of oil via the BTC.
