Oil Flows Set to Resume on Key Pipeline for Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan is in discussions to resume crude oil exports via the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline to the Turkish Mediterranean coast after supply was interrupted last month due to organic chlorides found in Azeri oil on the pipeline, Kazakhstan’s Energy Minister Yerlan Akkenzhenov said on Wednesday.  Kazakhstan’s top oil official confirmed for the first time that there had been disruption to oil supply via the pipeline and that deliveries were halted.  Kazakhstan, an oil producer part of the OPEC+ group, has decided to reroute…