BAKU, Azerbaijan, January 15
By Jeila Aliyeva - Trend:
Turkmenistan has approved volume of petroleum products, including gasoline, diesel fuel and jet fuel for domestic consumers in 2021, Trend reports with reference to Turkmenistan’s State News Agency.
The volume was approved in accordance with the decree of President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov.
The presidential decree was signed in order to ensure the uninterrupted supply of institutions, enterprises, public associations, individual entrepreneurs and the population with petroleum products, as well as the successful implementation of tasks for their most rational use.
The decree was also signed in accordance with the program for the development of the oil and gas industry of Turkmenistan for the period up to 2030.
According to the latest data, Turkmenistan exceeded expectations of oil and gas condensate production from January through November 2020.
The estimates of oil and gas condensate production were exceeded by 0.6 percent, oil refining – by 2.1 percent, gasoline production – by 3.9 percent, diesel fuel production – by 5.4 percent.
Also, the plan for natural and associated gas production was exceeded by 0.4 percent, gas exports – 0.2 percent, and investment development - by 6.2 percent.
Thus, the growth rate of liquefied gas production from January through November 2020, compared to the same period last year was 22.4 percent.
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