ASTANA, March 10 (Reuters) - Japan's Inpex will
send a test batch of 7,000 tonnes of Kashagan crude from
Kazakhstan via the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline this
month, pipeline operator Kaztransoil said on Friday.
Kashagan crude is usually shipped via the Caspian Pipeline
Consortium which crosses Russia, but companies have started
testing alternative routes after a number of interruptions to
its work last year amid Russia's standoff with the West over
Ukraine.
(Reporting by Tamara Vaal; writing by Olzhas Auyezov; editing
by Jason Neely)
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