Caspian Pipeline Consortium preparing to boost oil pumping to 81.5 mln tonnes/year, including to 72.5 mln tonnes via Kazakhstan's section

ASTANA. May 26 (Interfax) - The Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) could boost the volume of pumping oil from 67 million tonnes per year to 81.5 million tonnes per year, the Kazakh government's press service said.

"The technical capability has currently been enabled to boost pumping from 67 million tonnes per year to 81.5 million tonnes per year, including on the Kazakh section from 53.7 million tonnes per year to 72.5 million tonnes per year," according to the press release following a meeting between Kazakh Prime Minister Olzhas Bektenov and CPC CEO Nikolai Gorban.

The government also said that implementing the project to eliminate the CPC pipeline bottleneck in October this year would increase the total volume of shipped oil to 1 billion tonnes.

Gorban also reported during the meeting about completing restoration work and commissioning the Kropotkinskaya oil pumping station, adding that CPC and KazTransOil jointly implemented the project in 2024 to construct and connect a new jumper between the CPC oil pipeline and KazTransOil's Kasymov oil pumping station.

Bektenov in turn said that the Kazakh side has been paying special attention to the matter of the CPC oil pipeline operating uninterruptedly.

"The system is an important artery for exporting Kazakh oil, thus the Kazakh side will provide the necessary support," Kazakhstan's Cabinet of Ministers assured.