Kazakhstan's KazMunayGas weighs trial oil shipment to Germany in Jan

FILE PHOTO: A bird flies past a board of a Kazakh state-owned oil and gas company KazMunayGas gas station in Almaty, Kazakhstan, May 4, 2016. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov
Kazakhstan's state energy company KazMunayGas is considering a trial shipment of oil to Germany in January, the company's head, Magzum Mirzagaliyev, said on Wednesday.
"According to the instruction of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, KazMunayGas is considering the option of sending a trial batch of oil to Germany as early as January 2023," Mirzagaliyev said, according to a statement on the company's website.
(Reporting in Melbourne by Lidia Kelly; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman)