Kazakhstan to deliver oil to Germany via Russia's pipeline in coming days

The first batch of 20,000 tons of Kazakh oil scheduled to be sent to Germany in February has not yet been shipped, said Shyngys Ilyasov, director of KazTransOil's PR and Internal Communications Department.

Nevertheless, Energy Minister Bolat Aqchulaqov said that only technical work remains. "I think oil shipment will start in the next few days."

The German government last year agreed with Kazakhstan to buy crude oil in exchange for Russian oil to supply the Schwedt refinery.

KazTransOil also reserved additional capacity in the Druzhba oil pipeline to transit 1.2 million tons of crude to Germany.

300,000 tons were to be delivered to Germany in Q1. Deliveries were expected to start in January, but the terms were postponed due to commercial negotiations between the parties.

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