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Kazakhstan increases gasoline production

Oil&Gas Materials 15 April 2016 12:31 (UTC +04:00)

Baku, Azerbaijan, Apr.15

By Elena Kosolapova - Trend:

The production of gasoline (including aviation gasoline) has increased by 6.2 percent in Kazakhstan in the first quarter of 2016, as compared to the same period in 2015 and stood at 689,600 tons, said the Statistics Committee of the country's National Economy Ministry.

The production of kerosene, including the jet fuel has dropped by 24.4 percent and totalled 48,400 tons in the country.

This is while the gasoil (diesel fuel) output has decreased by 16.4 percent and stood at 898,600 tons in Kazakhstan. The production of furnace fuel oil has dropped by 22.7 percent and totalled 572,500 tons.

Currently, modernization work is underway in all three large refineries of Kazakhstan (Atyrau, Shymkent and Pavlodar). It is planed to complete the modernization of those refineries in 2018.

Edited by SI

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