KazTransOil to transport up to 80,000 tons of Russian oil to Uzbekistan by year-end
By Kamila Aliyeva
Kazakhstan's KazTransOil plans to transport up to 80,000 tons of Russian oil via its pipeline to Uzbekistan by the end of 2017, the press service of the company reported.
“The oil will be pumped through the pipeline to Shagyr oil loading point, where it will be poured into railway tanks and then transported by rail to Uzbekistan. According to the schedule of oil supplies, in November the volume of transit will be 30,000 tons. By the end of 2017, it is planned to transport up to 80,000 tons of raw materials along this route,” the general director of KazTransOil JSC, Dimash Dosanov, said.
On November 16, at the Russian-Kazakh border point, the first consignment of Russian oil was taken to the system of the main oil pipelines of KazTransOil, intended for further transit through the Kazakhstani territory towards Uzbekistan.
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.
In accordance with the framework agreement on some issues of cooperation in the energy sphere, deliveries of Russian oil via the KazTransOil pipeline system en route Omsk-Pavlodar-Shymkent- Shagyr oil loading point have been started.
As of November 20, as many as 20,950 tons were accepted into the system of main oil pipelines of the KazTransOil, while 13,300 tons of Russian oil were shipped from the Shagyr oil loading point to the railway tanks.
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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