{"id":67674,"date":"2024-04-27T17:26:48","date_gmt":"2024-04-27T22:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67674"},"modified":"2024-04-27T17:26:48","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T22:26:48","slug":"kazakhstans-oil-flows-to-germany-threatened-as-russia-demands-transit-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67674","title":{"rendered":"Kazakhstan\u2019s Oil Flows to Germany Threatened as Russia Demands Transit Fees"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kazakhstan\u2019s Oil Flows to Germany Threatened as Russia Demands Transit Fees<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Russian pipeline operator Transneft has warned Kazakhstan\u2019s oil companies that ship crude to Germany via Transneft\u2019s Druzhba pipeline that the customers of the Kazakh firms have until June to pay for metering services or risk a halt to supplies, trading sources told\u00a0Reuters<\/a>\u00a0on Thursday.<\/p>\n

In early 2023, as Russian crude flows via the Druzhba pipeline dropped off, crude oil from Kazakhstan\u00a0started flowing<\/a>\u00a0via the Russian pipeline network to Poland for further delivery to Germany.<\/p>\n

In December 2022, Kazakhstan\u2019s oil pipeline operator KazTransOil applied to transport a total of 1.2 million tons of Kazakh crude oil through Transneft\u2019s system of trunk oil pipelines in the direction of the Adamova Zastava point for further delivery to Germany.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, crude oil deliveries from Russia to Poland were suspended.<\/p>\n

The northern leg of the Druzhba oil pipeline system which connects Germany and Poland via Belarus, is now used for Kazakhstan\u2019s oil exports for the Schwedt refinery. Schwedt is the fourth-largest refinery in Germany and it gets its oil from the Druzhba oil pipeline. The refinery supplies 90% of the fuel needs of Germany\u2019s capital city Berlin.<\/p>\n

Now the Russian pipeline monopoly Transneft has recently told Kazakh suppliers that Polish state pipeline operator PERN has until June to pay for metering services at its Adamowo base on the Polish-Belarussian border, according to Reuters\u2019 trading sources. The current service contract is due to expire on June 5, one of these sources said.<\/p>\n

The use of the Druzhba pipeline and the Russian Black Sea ports for oil exports highlights the dependence of Kazakhstan\u2019s oil supply on Russia.<\/p>\n

Most of Kazakhstan\u2019s crude oil exports are currently being handled by the network of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC). The CPC pipeline runs from the Caspian coast in northwest Kazakhstan to the Novorossiysk port on Russia\u2019s Black Sea coast and carries 80% of Kazakh crude exports.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kazakhstan\u2019s Oil Flows to Germany Threatened as Russia Demands Transit Fees Russian pipeline operator Transneft has warned Kazakhstan\u2019s oil companies that ship crude to Germany via Transneft\u2019s Druzhba pipeline that the customers of the Kazakh firms have until June to pay for metering services or risk a halt to supplies, trading sources told\u00a0Reuters\u00a0on Thursday. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,5],"tags":[1985,588,5332,628,694,34407,14603],"class_list":["post-67674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","category-geopolitics","tag-kazakhstan","tag-oil","tag-oilprice-com","tag-pipeline","tag-russia","tag-transit-fees","tag-tsvetana-paraskova"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67675,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67674\/revisions\/67675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}