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Kazakhstan’s oil railway transit across Azerbajan to Black Sea ports will be boosted by 3 million tons a year to 8 million tons, Novosti Kazakhstan reports, citing Azerbajan’s Transport Minister Ziya Mamedov as saying for RIA Novosti. According to him, to this end Azerbajan Railways plans to purchase 1 600 new railway cisterns to transport oil. Tengizchevroil consortium [current partners are: Chevron, 50 percent, KazMunaiGas, 20 percent; ExxonMobil, 25 percent and LukArco, 5 percent] refused to pump oil from Tengiz oilfield through Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan due to growing tariffs. Oil transported across the Caspian Sea to Azerbajan terminals is further transported to Georgian ports of Batumi and Kulevi by railways.
Kazakhstan’s oil railway transit across Azerbajan to Black Sea ports will be boosted by 3 million tons a year to 8 million tons, Novosti Kazakhstan reports, citing Azerbajan’s Transport Minister Ziya Mamedov as saying for RIA Novosti.
According to him, to this end Azerbajan Railways plans to purchase 1 600 new railway cisterns to transport oil.
Tengizchevroil consortium [current partners are: Chevron, 50 percent, KazMunaiGas, 20 percent; ExxonMobil, 25 percent and LukArco, 5 percent] refused to pump oil from Tengiz oilfield through Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan due to growing tariffs. Oil transported across the Caspian Sea to Azerbajan terminals is further transported to Georgian ports of Batumi and Kulevi by railways.