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Kazakhstan increases oil transit via BTC in February

04 March 2026 11:51 (UTC +04:00)

"Kazakhstan transported 115 thousand tons of oil through the Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline in February this year," said KazTransOil, the national operator of Kazakhstan’s main oil pipelines, APA-Economics, citing Interfax-Kazakhstan.

According to the information, the transit of Kazakh oil via BTC increased by 8.5% in February compared to January.

Note that Kazakhstan transited 1.2 million tons of oil through BTC in 2025.

Currently, the BTC pipeline mainly transports oil produced from Azerbaijan’s Azeri–Chirag–Gunashli block and condensate from the Shah Deniz field. In addition, other regional crude oil and condensate volumes from the Caspian Sea (Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and other volumes produced by SOCAR in Azerbaijan) are also transported via BTC.

Shareholders of BTC Co.: bp (30.1%), SOCAR (32.97%), MOL (8.90%), TPAO (6.53%), Eni (5%), TotalEnergies (5%), ITOCHU (3.4%), ONGC Videsh (3.1%), ExxonMobil (2.5%), and INPEX (2.5%).