Kazakhstan has restarted oil shipments through the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline after a one-month suspension, restoring a key westward export route that bypasses Russia. State company KazMunayGas confirmed that 8,800 tonnes of crude from the Kashagan field were loaded at the port of Aktau on September 13, bound for Azerbaijan. A second shipment is scheduled for September 20, according to local outlet Kapital.kz. The crude will travel by tanker across the Caspian Sea to Baku before entering the BTC s ...