ALMATY, Sept. 17 (Xinhua) -- Kazakhstan has resumed oil exports via the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline system, the press service of the country's national oil and gas company KazMunayGas (KMG) said Wednesday.

According to KMG, 8,800 tonnes of oil from the Kashagan oil field were shipped from the port of Aktau toward the BTC pipeline on Saturday. The next shipment is scheduled for Sept. 20.

The volume of Kazakh oil transported through the BTC route in the first eight months of 2025 totaled 0.9 million tonnes, according to the company.

Kazakhstan planned to raise oil exports through the BTC pipeline to 1.7 million tonnes in 2025, Kazakh Energy Minister Yerlan Akkenzhenov said in July.

Kazakhstan began exporting oil via the BTC pipeline in 2023 to diversify its export channels. KMG and the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan signed an agreement to transport 1.5 million tonnes of Kazakh oil annually through the pipeline. ■