Kazakhstan sends Tengiz crude through Azeri BTC pipeline, expanding Caspian shipments

Kazakh infrastructure provider KazTransOil has shipped a cargo of nearly 10,000 mt of Tengiz crude oil across the Caspian Sea for transit through the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline, with Tengiz shipments through the route expected to rise to 125,000 mt in April, it said March 27. The 10,000 mt shipment, equivalent to some 79,000 barrels, follows the announcement of a test…