Following the modernization project, the carrying capacity of the pipeline linking the Kazakh Tengiz oilfield with the Russian Black Sea port in Novorossiysk will make up 67 million tons of crude per year.
President Nursultan Nazarbayev met Dmitry Medvedev and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad following the sitting of the Council of Heads of state of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) June 15.
They discussed partnership of Samruk-Energo [state-run power company of Kazakhstan] and RUSAL, the world's largest aluminium and alumina producer, at the Bogatyr coal mine in Kazakhstan.