VOL. XLIV

No. 15

9-APRIL-2001

CASPIAN

Foreign Ambassadors Protest Kazakstans Unified Routing System

Twelve ambassadors in Kazakstan have sent a letter to Prime Minister Kasymzhomart Tokayev protesting against the Unified Routing System (URS), a crude export arrangement made mandatory for oil producing firms in the country by the state pipeline company KazTransOil (KTO) under which KTO would coordinate all shipments of crude through Russias Transneft pipeline system to loading or market...