BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 2. The volume of oil refined at Kazakhstan's Atyrau Refinery will exceed five million tons until the end of 2022, Trend reports via KazMunayGas (KMG) National Company JSC.
Such a forecast was made during an offsite meeting held by KMG’s Board Chairman Magzum Mirzagaliyev in Atyrau.
The meeting was attended by the management of the Atyrau Refinery and the Aktau Caspi Bitum bitumen plant.
At the meeting, the management of the Atyrau Refinery informed that the enterprise is operating stably, and production indicators are currently being met.
In order to stabilize the situation on the market of fuels and lubricants, options are being worked out to postpone the repair of the Atyrau Refinery, previously scheduled for September, to a later period.
In this regard, Mirzagaliyev instructed the management of the Atyrau Refinery to provide preparatory measures to postpone the repair of the plant, given the current situation in the fuel and lubricants market.