Kazakhstan is waiting for "friendship". More precisely, approval for pumping from the Russian side - Astana has again stated that it wants to resume oil supply and is waiting for a response from Moscow. The Russian side stopped pumping at the beginning of May, officially due to infrastructure limitations. In 2025, 2.1 million tons will be pumped through Druzhba towards Germany; In the first quarter of 2026, the supply increased by 353 thousand tons to 730 thousand tons. The expectation was that by the end of the year the volume would reach 2.5 million tons. Kazakhstan's raw materials were supplied to the Schwedt refinery, which after the expropriation of Rosneft's assets is under the control of the German government. The site mainly supplies fuel to Berlin and the surrounding area. The story of Rosneft's shares in the German refineries continued until September 2022, when the German authorities introduced external management at all of Rosneft's refineries in the country and transferred the assets to the Federal Network Agency - since then the external management has been extended several times, each time for six months, and they still have not succeeded in privatizing the assets. For the Russian side, there is little interest in participating in the supply of Kazakh oil to Germany - Astana's exports are already reliably tied to the CPC infrastructure, and Kazakhstan simply does not have alternative routes with even close comparable capacity. So it is unlikely that we will hear about the launch of the northern branch of the oil pipeline in the near future. Oil warehouse in Telegram up to MAX.

Kazakhstan is waiting for "friendship". More precisely, approval for pumping from the Russian side - Astana has again stated that it wants to resume oil supply and is waiting for a response from Moscow. The Russian side stopped pumping at the beginning of May, officially due to infrastructure limitations. In 2025, 2.1 million tons will be pumped through Druzhba towards Germany; In the first quarter of 2026, the supply increased by 353 thousand tons to 730 thousand tons. The expectation was that by the end of the year the volume would reach 2.5 million tons. Kazakhstan's raw materials were supplied to the Schwedt refinery, which after the expropriation of Rosneft's assets is under the control of the German government. The site mainly supplies fuel to Berlin and the surrounding area. The story of Rosneft's shares in the German refineries continued until September 2022, when the German authorities introduced external management at all of Rosneft's refineries in the country and transferred the assets to the Federal Network Agency - since then the external management has been extended several times, each time for six months, and they still have not succeeded in privatizing the assets. For the Russian side, there is little interest in participating in the supply of Kazakh oil to Germany - Astana's exports are already reliably tied to the CPC infrastructure, and Kazakhstan simply does not have alternative routes with even close comparable capacity. So it is unlikely that we will hear about the launch of the northern branch of the oil pipeline in the near future. Oil warehouse in Telegram up to MAX.