ALMATY (AFX) – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has approved plans for its first loan to Kazakhstan’s oil sector, for a pipeline to take oil to China, an EBRD official said. The EBRD’s board has approved lending US$81.6 m to MunaiTas, the Chinese-Kazakh joint operator of the 450-kilometre Kenkiyak-Atyrau pipeline in western…