MOSCOW, May 10 (Reuters) - Kazakhstan boosted oil
exports from the Caspian port of Aktau to Azerbaijan's Baku to
increase April's flows via the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC)
pipeline by 75% from March to 152,400 tonnes, operator
Kaztransoil said on Wednesday.
Kazakhstan has sought ways to decrease its dependence on
Russian exporting routes because it has often faced difficulties
in selling oil through Russia.
Kazakh oil is not subject to Western sanctions, unlike
Russian crude, though the sanctions have created problems for
some Kazakh products.
Kaztransoil said that total oil exports from Aktau in April
rose by 24% from March to 312,600 tonnes, of which 162,200
tonnes were supplied to the Russian port of Makhachkala.
(Reporting by Reuters
Editing by David Goodman)
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