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Kazakhstan exceeds plan on petroleum products output

Oil&Gas Materials 12 April 2021 16:19 (UTC +04:00)
Kazakhstan exceeds plan on petroleum products output

BAKU, Azerbaijan, Apr. 12

By Nargiz Sadikhova - Trend:

Kazakhstan has manufactured over 3 million tons of petroleum products in 1Q2021, which is 3.6 percent lower than the planned volume, Kazakhstan’s Energy Minister Nurlan Nogayev said, Trend reports citing the press office of the government.

The manufacturing of petrol equaled 1.1 million tons (5.5 percent lower than the plan), of diesel fuel equaled 1 million tons (10.3 percent lower than the plan).

Nogayev noted that the reasons for the decline in the production are the disruption in the supply of electricity at the Atyrau refinery in January of this year, which led to an emergency shutdown of technological units, as a result of which it became necessary to carry out repair and restoration work in March.

Originally, the repair work was to be completed on April 4 and the plant was to re-reach full capacity on April 10. However, currently the restart of the plant’s operations is scheduled for April 24.

In order to avoid a shortage of oil products during the repair work at the Atyrau refinery, the Ministry of Energy, together with the KazMunayGas National Company, postpone the overhaul work at the Shymkent oil refinery from March 25 through April 24 to from May 1 through May 31.

Furthermore, jet fuel manufacturing stood at 131,00 tons (0.6 percent more than the plan), fuel oil at 681,000 tons (13 percent more than the plan), bitumen at 111,000 tons (7.8 percent less than the plan). Overall output of petrochemicals equaled 37,000 tons, which is 53.4 percent less than the plan.

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