Kazakhstan Weighs New Routes as Drone Strikes Squeeze Black Sea Oil Exports

Kazakhstan is looking to re-route part of its crude oil exports away from its Black Sea export terminal and on pipelines through Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkey amid continued threats to its shipments from the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiysk. “Transportation through the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan sy

Source: OilPrice.com

DW NOTE

Kazakhstan has shipped crude through Novorossiysk for two decades without incident. Now it's looking for alternatives because Ukrainian drones can reach the terminal. That's not a logistics problem — it's the cost of sitting between two empires while pretending neutrality is still an option.

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