The Caspian Pipeline Consortium’s Atyrau and Tengiz loading points in Kazakhstan are working below capacity and running onbackup power supplies due to a power outage, CPC said on Tuesday.

The outage late on Monday left a number of industrial facilities offline, including the Atyrau oil refinery and several oil producers.

CPC, which handles around 1% of global oil deliveries, said the power cuts from the Mangystau power plant, which had an emergency on Monday, had not been fully resolved yet, noting restrictions on power supplies were introduced again on Tuesday morning.

The blackout reduced Kazakhstan’s overall oil production by some 13% on Monday.

CPC shipped 58.7 million tonnes in 2022, including 52.2 tonnes from Kazakhstan, via its Black Sea terminal.
Source: Reuters (Reporting by Mariya Gordeyeva in Almaty and Vladimir Soldatkin in Moscow; writing by Olzhas Auyezov; editing by Jason Neely)