Oil transit through Russia from Kazakhstan to Germany via the Druzhba pipeline is planned to start in February instead of January, as the partners of the Russian company Transneft need time, spokesman, adviser to the president of the Russian company Igor Demin said, RIA Novosti reported.
On December 29, Transneft announced that it had received an application from Kaztransoil for a reserve of additional capacity of the Druzhba oil pipeline for transit to Germany in the amount of 1.2 million tons for 2023. This information was later confirmed by a Kazakh company. It was clarified that 300,000 tons are expected to be pumped in the first quarter, 20,000 tons - only in January.
“Today, in the first half of the day, the schedule for pumping 500,000 tons of oil to Poland was actually completed. Now we can start additional transit to Germany. But due to some inertia, our partners need time to start work. However, these 20,000 tons of oil are now scheduled February, and not in addition, but on a par with the volumes provided for supplies to Poland via the northern branch of Druzhba, Demin answered the agency's question about the transit of Kazakh oil.
Transneft noted that everything is ready for the transit of the designated 20 thousand tons of oil: route instructions have been prepared, the necessary transit payments have been made.
Germany said in September that it would hold talks with Kazakhstan on the purchase of oil with transportation through the Druzhba pipeline to provide additional volumes for the refinery in the city of Schwedt and replace Russian volumes. Now Kazakhstan uses transit through the Druzhba, sending about 10 million tons of oil in the direction of the port in Ust-Luga.
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February 1, 2023