Crude Shipments to China up 23 Percent in January-July

    KazTransOil shipped 773,000 tons of crude oil to China via the Atasu-Alashankou pipeline in July. In the first seven months of 2009, the pipeline transported approximately 4 million tons of crude, a 23-percent increase compared to the same period in 2008.     The Atyrau-Samara pipeline, another pipeline operated by KazTransOil and linking...