Kazakhstan plans new oil pipeline

Kazakhstan has begun discussions with Azerbaijan and Georgia on the construction of a new oil pipeline that would take oil from Baku to Georgia’s Black Sea port of Batumi, an official from the state energy company KazEnergy said.

“Azerbaijan and Georgia support the project of construction of a new oil pipeline from Baku to Batumi,” said KazEnergy chair Temur Kulibaev.

In its first stage the pipeline would pump around ten million barrels of Kazakh oil a year, including from its Tengiz field, the news agency Regnum reports.