Kazakhstan has been diverting crude oil exports away from the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline to Russia's Caspian Pipeline Consortium route after contamination in Azerbaijan'sflagship Azeri Light crude disrupted the Mediterranean export system, according to S&P Global Commodities at Sea data Aug. 13 and an industry source with direct knowledge of the matter.

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Roman Vassilenko, Kazakhstan’s deputy foreign minister, calls for diplomacy to end the Russia-Ukraine war.

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The companies operating two major oil fields in Kazakhstan are being taken to arbitration by the nation’s government, with billions of dollars of revenue at stake amid allegations of unapproved spending, according to people familiar with the matter.

On the picture: Dmitry Konov filed his appeal at the EU General Court in Luxembourg on June 1.Source: Bloomberg

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