KazTransOil sets tariffs for supplies of Russian gas to Uzbekistan
By Kamila Aliyeva
Kazakhstan's KazTransOil has approved tariffs for the
transportation of Russian oil through Kazakhstan to Uzbekistan, the
company said in a message on November 15.
Under the order of the general director of KazTransOil JSC, the
cost of transportation of oil for non-residents along the route
‘Russian-Kazakh border - Shagyr oil loading point’ is set in the
amount of $11.7 for a ton per 1,000 km (without VAT) from November
10, 2017 till December 31, 2017. Loading of oil into railway tanks
at the Shagyr station will cost $0.8 per ton (excluding VAT).
Also, the cost of transportation of Russian oil for the purposes of
transit through the territory of Kazakhstan to Uzbekistan in the
amount of $22.9 per a ton (excluding VAT) was established for
non-residents. The price includes the cost of pumping oil along the
route ‘Russian-Kazakh border - Shagyr oil loading point’, taking
into account the $22.1 per a ton (excluding VAT) tariff, and tariff
for loading oil in railway tanks - $0.8 per a ton (excluding
VAT).
Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan supported the implementation of Russian
oil supplies to Uzbekistan through Kazakhstan on September 16,
including through KazTransOil pipelines to Shagyr oil loading
point. By the end of the year it is planned to pump about 30,000
tons via the Omsk-Pavlodar-Shymkent oil pipeline, and then supply
it to Uzbekistan via the railway overpass.
In Uzbekistan in 2010-2016, gasoline production decreased by 26.2 percent, diesel fuel - by 8.3 percent, while imports of hydrocarbons increased 1.3 times.
Earlier, Uzbekistan expressed readiness to purchase up to 500,000 tons of oil from Russia for the refinery in the Jizzakh region.
The agreement on import oil supplies was reached during the visits of Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev to Kazakhstan and Russia.
At the end of April 2017, Uzbekistan started construction of a new refinery in Zafarobod district of the country’s Jizzakh region, which is expected to operate using the crude imported from Kazakhstan and Russia.
The refinery has design capacity of processing of five million tons of oil per year, production of 3.7 million tons of car fuel, over 700,000 tons of aviation fuel and 300,000 tons of associated oil products.
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