Savings exceeded one million dollars. Batumi Oil Terminal significantly reduced its electricity and natural gas consumption in the first seven months of 2026, while modernization of a key production process also shortened the time required to handle rail tank cars, DKNews.kz reports.
According to KazTransOil JSC, as of August 17, its wholly owned subsidiary Batumi Oil Terminal LLC achieved an economic effect of $1.362 million through energy savings.
Electricity consumption fell 24.3%, gas use dropped 41.4%
From January through July, Batumi Oil Terminal reduced electricity consumption by 24.3% compared with the same period of 2025.
Natural gas consumption declined even more sharply — by 41.4%.
The company attributes the result to a package of measures implemented in 2025–2026. These included modernization and repair of technological equipment, improvements in energy efficiency, and new approaches to managing production processes.
The impact went beyond lower energy costs. The modernization also accelerated one of the terminal’s key technological operations.
Fuel oil heating and unloading time cut by 7–10 hours
One of the main projects involved upgrading the fuel oil heating and unloading process at railway unloading rack No. 2.
The facility is designed to receive up to 84 rail tank cars. Automation of the energy-intensive fuel oil unloading process made it possible to optimize equipment operating modes and reduce energy costs.
As a result, the terminal shortened the production cycle as well as reducing energy consumption.
The time required to heat and unload fuel oil from tank cars was cut by 7–10 hours. According to the company, this increased the throughput capacity of railway unloading rack No. 2.
For the terminal, this is a measurable operational result: the equipment upgrade delivered both financial savings and faster processing.
Savings are part of modernization of KazTransOil’s foreign asset
Batumi Oil Terminal is KazTransOil’s production asset in Georgia. The Kazakh company owns 100% of BOT and uses the subsidiary to directly own and manage its production assets in the country.
The ownership structure is also stated in KazTransOil’s official information on Batumi Oil Terminal.
KazTransOil is Kazakhstan’s national operator of the main oil pipeline system and is part of the KazMunayGas group. Its own network of trunk oil pipelines stretches 5,200 km, while the company also provides operating services for more than 5,000 km of pipelines owned by third parties.
Efficiency is becoming more important for the overseas asset
The energy-saving program at Batumi Oil Terminal is part of a broader effort to optimize production processes.
The company continues work to improve energy efficiency, use energy resources more rationally, modernize equipment and refine the management of technological operations.
Earlier, we reported on the performance of KazTransOil’s overseas assets and higher cargo transshipment volumes at Batumi Oil Terminal. In 2025, total cargo transshipment by the BOT group rose 10% to 7.2 million tonnes.
The terminal now has another measurable efficiency indicator: in the first seven months of 2026, electricity consumption fell 24.3%, natural gas use dropped 41.4%, and the resulting economic effect reached $1.362 million. At the same time, the fuel oil heating and unloading cycle was shortened by 7–10 hours.
