Med crude-Urals diffs unchanged, Kazakhstan diverts oil to China after attack on CPC

Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port PAO

10/12/2025 21:26

MOSCOW, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Russian Urals crude differentials were unchanged again on Wednesday, while Kazakhstan diverted some of its oil from the Caspian Pipeline Consortium pipeline in December amid a fall in the route's capacity.

Kazakhstan's oil pipeline operator Kaztransoil said on Wednesday the country will divert some volumes of oil from the damaged Caspian Pipeline Consortium's network to other routes including China.

Kazakhstan will ship 72,000 metric tons of oil to China while raising supplies to the Atyrau-Samara pipeline to Russia by 232,000 tons and to the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline by 58,000 tons this month compared to an initial plan.

Kazakhstan's oil output decline slowed in early December after a Ukrainian drone strike on a Black Sea export terminal disrupted flows, an industry source said on Wednesday.

PLATTS WINDOW

No bids or offers were made on Wednesday for Urals, Azeri BTC and CPC Blend, traders said.

NEWS

Ukrainian sea drones on Wednesday hit and disabled a tanker involved in trading Russian oil as it sailed through Ukraine's exclusive economic zone in the Black Sea to the Russian port of Novorossiysk, a Ukrainian official said.

 (Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Nia Williams)