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Kazakhstan expects to resume oil exports via Druzhba pipeline — Energy Minister

It is very commercially attractive for Astana, Yerlan Akkenzhenov said

ASTANA, November 10. /TASS/. Kazakhstan expects to resume oil exports to Germany over the Druzhba oil pipeline across the Russian territory, Energy Minister Yerlan Akkenzhenov told reporters.

"We always have hope, we reckon upon the restart of this route. It is very commercially attractive for us. Furthermore, it complies, so to say, with technical requirements to operation of the Atyrau-Samara oil pipeline. In other words, it is required to maintain a minimal throughput volume for this pipeline to function normally," the minister said.

This is particularly essential for the winter period, Akkenzhenov said. "There are no heating furnaces on the pipeline from Kazakhstan to Russia," he added.