Kazakhstan and Russia are preparing an intergovernmental agreement to increase Russian oil transit to China through Kazakhstan from 10 to 12.5 million tons per year, according to the Telegram channel Petrocouncil.kz, as reported by Forbes.kz.
KazTransOil Transportation Department Director Islamdaut Akubayev reported that the technical feasibility for this increase has already been developed.
"The issue of increasing Russian oil transit to China by 2.5 million tons per year, to 12.5 million tons, has been discussed at the level of Transneft and KazTransOil. Further consideration is being carried out by the authorized bodies of Kazakhstan and Russia within the framework of the intergovernmental agreement," he explained.
In June 2025, KazTransOil announced a joint development with Transneft of technical parameters for increasing Russian oil transit to China via Kazakhstan.
That fall, Rosneft signed an agreement with its Chinese partners for an additional 2.5 million tons of oil per year via this route to supply refineries in western China.
CentralasianLIGHT.org
March 23, 2026