One of Germany’s biggest refineries is set to receive more crude oil from Kazakhstan for a longer period of time, the German Economy Ministry confirmed on Monday as Chancellor Scholz visited the Central Asian nation. The PCK refinery in Brandenburg sources some of its crude oil from Kazakhstan but has been running at lower capacity since 2023 when Germany switched away from using Russian oil. Until that point, the facility was processing only Russian oil to supply north-eastern Germany with petrol, diesel, heating oil and other products. But when the Kremlin started the war against Ukraine, Ge…