Kazakhstan is looking to re-route part of its crude oil exports away from its Black Sea export terminal and on pipelines through Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkey amid continued threats to its shipments from the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiysk. Kazakhstan is working on re-routes for seaborne shipments and boosting supply eastward via pipeline to China, the ministry said, as the country's crude oil exports have been severely disrupted in recent weeks due to Ukrainian drone attacks on Russia's oil export infrastructure. In July alone, flows through the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) were suspended for days as many as on three separate occasions. The Ukrainian drone attacks have led to suspension of the shipments and exposed Kazakhstan's critical infrastructure vulnerability of having to rely on a Russian export terminal for most of its crude oil shipments. CPC transports crude oil from three major fields in Kazakhstan, Tengiz, Kashagan, and Karachaganak, in which major western companies have stakes, including Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell, and Eni.