Kazakhstan, Russia revisit oil pipeline expansion

摘要

Moscow—Kazakhstan and Russia seem to have revived the plan to expand the capacity of the Atyrau-Samara pipeline from Kazakhstan to Central Russia. Kazakhstan’s state pipeline operator Kaz-TransOil said October 16 the parties have agreed “on the necessity of the expansion.” At a recent meeting of Kazakhstan’s state KazMu-naiGaz and KazTransOil with Russia’s national oil pipeline operator Transneft, “it was decided that the feasibility study for the expansion of that section should be prepared,” KazTransOil General Director Nurtas Shmanov said.