Kazakhstan’s oil exports fell after Ukrainian drone attacks and stormy weather hampered operations at the Caspian Pipeline Consortium’s marine terminal in Novorossyisk. Its major oil field Tengiz also suffered an outage in January.
The Novorossiysk facility loads most of Kazakhstan’s oil onto tankers bound for European refineries.
On 29 November 2025, a naval drone attack disabled one of the terminal’s deep-water moorings (SPM-2), which has a loading capacity of up to 800,000 barrels per day.
On 13 January, drones then struck two tankers — Matilda and Delta Harmony — while they were waiting to load Kazakh crude.
Kazakhstan's Energy Minister Erlan Akkenzhanov said the tankers were not part of Russia’s so-called shadow fleet.
“There were no restrictions imposed on the vessels, and they were not included on any grey lists.”
Authorities said both vessels were empty at the time. No injuries or oil spills were reported.
