BAKU, Azerbaijan, August 22. Kazakhstan has extracted 66.3 million tons of coal over the period from January through July 2022, which is 5.4 percent more than during the same period of 2021, Trend reports citing Kazakhstan’s Statistics Committee.
The report said that the volume of coal extracted in July 2022 stood at 9.03 million tons, which in turn is 2.6 percent more than in July 2021.
Furthermore, crude oil extraction including gas condensate was 49.9 million tons during the reporting period, which is 0.3 percent more than the volume extracted during the same period of 2021. Kazakhstan’s July oil output was 6.8 million tons, which also is 5.4 percent less than during the same month of 2021.
Kazakhstan also extracted 32.5 billion cubic meters of natural gas during seven months of 2022 and 4.3 billion cubic meters in July, which is 2.3 percent more and 3.2 percent less year-on-year.
Fuel oil manufacturing volume stood at 1.7 million tons and 424,400 tons during the reporting period and July 2022 respectively, which is 14.5 percent and 31.5 percent more than during the same period of 2021.
Kerosene manufacturing amounted to 410,000 tons over seven months (up by 23 percent) and 49,400 tons in July 2022 (down by 28.7 percent), whereas gasoil manufacturing equaled 3.1 million tons over seven months (up by 9.9 percent) and 413,700 tons in July 2022 (down by 13.9 percent).
Hydrocarbon liquefied gases output was 679,000 tons over seven months of 2022 with an annual increase of 2.2 percent, whereas July output was 80,900 tons (down by 14.5 percent annual).
Electricity generation over the reporting period of 2022 equaled 65.7 billion kWh, which is 1.2 percent less than during the same period of 2021, whereas the volume of electricity generated in July 2022 amounted to 8.8 billion kWh, which is 0.9 percent less year-on-year.
The volume of thermal energy generated from January through July 2022 amounted to 52.06 million Gcal with an annual decrease of 1.1 percent, whereas July 2022 output was 3.7 million Gcal, which is 24.9 percent more than in July 2021.
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