Kazakhstan Eyes Increased Oil Exports via BTC Pipeline

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Kazakhstan and Turkey discussed a potential increase of Kazakh oil exports via the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline to Turkey during the visit of Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev to Ankara.  Tokayev and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan discussed increased cooperation in the energy sector, including higher Kazakh oil exports via the BTC pipeline, the office of the Kazakh president said.  Kazakhstan raised its oil exports via BTC by 12% to about 785,000 tons, or about 34,000 barrels per day (bpd), in…