BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 15. The volume of oil extraction in Kazakhstan amounted to 56.1 million tons from January through August 2022, which corresponds to the output during the same months of 2021, Trend reports with reference to Kazakhstan’s Statistics Committee.
Industrial manufacturing in the country increased by 2.5 percent compared to the reporting period of 2021.
Thus, the manufacturing of copper ore amounted to 87.7 million tons, which is 7 percent more compared to the reporting months of 2021. Manufacturing of petrol amounted to 3.3 million tons (increase of 4.4 percent compared to the same period of 2021).
Manufacturing of Portland cement was 8.6 million tons, which is 0.2 percent more than during the same period of 2021. Manufacturing of metal constructions was 50,800 tons (decrease by 4.5 percent), of electricity to 74.6 billion kWh (decrease by 0.8 percent).
The value of products manufactured in Kazakhstan stood at 32.1 trillion tenge ($67.9 billion) over eight months of 2022, of which 16.9 trillion tenge ($35.9 billion) accounted for the mining industry, and 13.4 trillion tenge ($28.3 billion) for manufacturing.
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